The witch hunts reached their peak around the time of the Edict of Restitution in 1629, and much of the remaining institutional and popular enthusiasm for them faded in the aftermath of Sweden's entry into the war the following year.
32.
In accordance with the Edict of Restitution the estates of Himmelpforten's nunnery were then bestowed to the Catholic Jesuits, in order to finance them and their missioning in the course of the Counter-Reformation in the Prince-Archbishopric.
33.
Following the Edict of Restitution in 1790, a decision was made in 1791 to send a delegation to the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, on behalf of the Transylvanian Saxons as they wanted to put forward their own proposal for regulation.
34.
By means of the Edict of Restitution of Emperor Ferdinand II ( 1629 ), vigorously and even too forcefully executed by the bishop, the Thirty Years'War first accomplished an almost complete restoration of the former possessions of the Diocese of Augsburg.
35.
Shortly thereafter, their territories were put at risk by the Imperial Edict of Restitution of 2 March 1629, when the Prince-Archbishops of Mainz and Trier claimed restitution of church properties that had been confiscated after the Peace of Passau of 1552.
36.
The Leaguist takeover enabled Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, to implement the Edict of Restitution, decreed March 6, 1629, within the " Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen " and the " Prince-Bishopric of Verden ".
37.
After Catholic victories early in the Thirty Years'War, the " Declaratio Ferdinandei " was overturned in the Edict of Restitution of 1629, which was part of Ferdinand II's master plan to reconvert the Holy Roman Empire to Catholicism.
38.
Meanwhile, Tilly had been busy enforcing the Emperor's edict of restitution when the Emperor would have been more well served by his lieutenant if he had isolated the German Protestant's from Sweden and or compelling the Swedish into direct conflict.
39.
After that, the Imperial and Protestant German sides met for negotiations, producing the Peace of Prague ( 1635 ), which entailed a delay in the enforcement of the Edict of Restitution for 40 years and allowed Protestant rulers to retain secularized bishoprics held by them in 1627.
40.
Gradually, however, he was made uneasy by the obvious trend of the imperial policy towards the annihilation of Protestantism, and by a dread lest the ecclesiastical lands should be taken from him; and the issue of the edict of restitution in March 1629 put the capstone to his fears.
