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He Reformation of the Inhabitants of Prachatice (as a little after the Inhabitants of Piek) was begun in bloud. For when the Citizens with a mall-force couragiouly reited for three dayes the Imperiall Army paing that way, then being about to yield themelves, they came down from the walls and forts, and prepared to carry out the keys, the enemy furiouly aaulting the gate, broke it open, and firt 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 thouand ix hundred and ixty Citizens were lain; carce ten, whom light or ome deeper lurking place had aved from their fury. It was a fearfull pectacle to ee carcaes thrown about through the treets and houes, exceedingly dirty, and hamefully naked: neither was there any one for ome dayes to bury the dead bodies. At length two pious Matrons Chritina and Benigna (ifters 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 grave