Chap. 102.
The Reformation of Prachatice.
THe Reformation of the Inhabitants of Prachatice (as a little after the Inhabitants of Piſek) was begun in bloud. For when the Citizens with a ſmall-force couragiouſly reſiſted for three dayes the Imperiall Army paſſing that way, then being about to yield themſelves, they came down from the walls and forts, and prepared to carry out the keys, the enemy furiouſly aſſaulting the gate, broke it open, and firſt kil’d the Maior of the City, bringing the keyes, and then other men whom they met, and the youth; that within three houres one thouſand ſix hundred and ſixty Citizens were ſlain; ſcarce ten, whom ſlight or ſome deeper lurking place had ſaved from their fury. It was a fearfull ſpectacle to ſee carcaſes thrown about through the ſtreets and houſes, exceedingly dirty, and ſhamefully naked: neither was there any one for ſome dayes to bury the dead bodies. At length two pious Matrons Chriſtina and Benigna (ſifters of Alexander Rumpalius a Citizen and Alderman of Prague) put to their hands, and bring their husbands, and Maximilian Rumpalius their brother (an Alderman) to the
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