De vastacione terre Sambiensis.
The Sudowite-Lithuanian Raid on Samland
The Sudowites, enraged by Teutonic punishment, allied with the Lithuanians and invaded Samland, burning settlements and killing five men before withdrawing, while the Teutonic brothers had long prepared their defenses.
During this master's time, Brother Manegold, the Sudowites—punished by the brothers for the aforesaid offenses and by various afflictions—were disturbed beyond measure. Having conceived excessive indignation against them, they held a council to determine how they could avenge this kind of oppression; and because they could not do so on their own, they secured the aid of the Lithuanians and entered the land of Samland in force. The brothers had been fortified against this for a long time. From there they could do nothing else except that within ten days they crossed the boundaries of the aforementioned land, burned the dwellings and other things that lay outside the camp and fortifications, and so, having killed five men from their army, they withdrew.
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Tempore hujus magistri fratris Manegoldi Sudowite ex premissis et variis afflictionibus castigati per fratres ultra modum turbati sunt et concepta contra ipsos indignacione nimia, concilium fecerunt, quomodo possent oppressionem hujusmodi vindicare, et quia per se non poterant adjuncto sibi auxilio Lethowinorum intraverunt potenter terra in Sambie. Fratres longo tempore de hoc fuerunt premuniti. Undea nihil aliud facere poterant, nisi quod x diebus pertransierunt terminos dicte terre et habitaciones, et alia, que extra castra et municiones sita fuerant, cremaverunt, et sic occisis de exercitu suo v viris recesserunt.
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