ABSTRACT
There were only a few defenders to offer resistance, the rest of the city was in confusion, and so the attackers were able to secure the battlements in a short time. When morning came, that is the morning of 26 June, some of the defenders fled to the castle [383], and others to the towers above the gates, and thus the attackers were now the masters of the town, to the great joy and exultation of the friends and partisans of the truth. In like manner, on the fourth Sunday of Lent, 17 March, at the order of the papal legate in Wroclaw, who was then residing there with the Roman and Hungarian king Sigismund, a papal crusade against the Czechs, especially against those who were supporters of the lay chalice, as if they were heretics and rebels against the Roman Church, was proclaimed throughout the churches in sermons.
