 The enraged peasants organized a general assembly ("Landsgemeinde") of the population of the valley at Heiligkreuz, in spite of such assemblies being illegal as the authorities' laws of the time denied the freedom of assembly.The assembly, which took place after the mass on February 10, 1653, decided to suspend all tax payments until the authorities in Lucerne fulfilled their demands by reducing taxes and abolishing some of them altogether, such as the taxes on salt, cattle, and horse trades.The authorities of Lucerne were not willing to grant the population's demands, but neither did they manage to subdue this insurrection.