De vastacione terriloriorum Pastovie et Gesovie.b.
The Winter Campaign of 1294
In the winter of 1294 the master, dissuaded from attacking Erogel, divided his forces to ravage the territories of Pastovie and Gesovie, returning with captives, plunder, and a hundred enemy killed or taken.
In the year of our Lord 1294, in winter, the master, anxious for the salvation of the faithful, was dissuaded from invading the territory of Erogel with the power of his own army, though he wished to do so. Whereupon he divided his army into two parts, so that the brothers from Raganita together with the Sambians entered the territory of Pastovie, while the other part advanced against the territory of Gesovie, harassing both severely with fire, so that — with a hundred men killed and captured, and with the greatest booty — they returned.
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Anno domini mccxciiii tempore hyemali magister de salute fidelium sollici— tus, cum potencia exercitus sui volens invadere territorium Erogel, disuasum fuit ei. Unde divisit exercitum in duas partes, sic quod fratres de Raganita cum Sambitis intraverunt territorium Pastovie, alia pars processit contra territorium Gesovie, utrumque molestantes graviter per incendium, sic quod occisis et captis c hominibus, cum preda maxima sunt reversi.
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