Even  the  executioner  had  scruples,  because  the  condemned  prisoners
had  not  had  lawful  trial  ;  but  the  bishop's  officer  said,  "  Do  what  I  com-
mand you,  and  let  the  princes  answer  for  it."2

A  citizen  of  Vienna,  one  Caspar  Tauber,  who  had  expressed  anti-
catholic  opinions  respecting  the  intercession  of  saints,  purgatory,  con-
fession and  the  mystery  of  the  communion,  was  condemned  to  make  a
recantation.  On  a  great  holyday — the  Nativity  of  the  Virgin  Mary —
two  pulpits  were  erected  for  this  purpose  in  the  churchyard  of  St.
