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 afterwards delivered into the custody of Pope Gregory XV., at Rome. After several years, during which time the Bohemian insurrection had been put down, and Ferdinand had rushed on from victory to victory, he begged leave to return, that he might discharge the duties of a bishop of Vienna, and the new city, Vienna. Ferdinand yielded, and permitted him after an exile of more than nine years, to come back. He also refunded to him the money confiscated at his seizure, which amounted to more than 300,000 florins, and which had done him good service in the conflict with the rebellion. Khlesl returned to his diocese, and devoted himself thenceforth as zealously to the duties of his position as he had formerly done to the affairs of State.

Immediately after the throwing from the windows at Prague, the Emperor entered upon negotiations with the lands which were loyal to him, and requested their aid in the coming contest with the insurrection. His endeavors came in conflict with those of the Bohemians who had anticipated him in seeking the aid of the neighboring lands, where they either pleaded former alliances or represented the insurrection as a common interest. Thus they sent Prague’s celebrated physician, Jessenius, to gain to their cause the Hungarian Estates, then in session at Presburg. He arrived there on the 26th of June, and although he exerted himself to the utmost, and exhausted his eloquence in the effort, yet he failed to accomplish his mission and prevent Ferdinand’s coronation as King of Hungary, which took place on the 1st of July. The Palatine and the chief officials, who were on friendly