De subversione suburbii de Castro Putenicka.
The Surprise Attack on Putenicka
The editor notes the chronological compression before recounting how Commander brother Volz led a dawn raid up the Jura river to capture, burn, and devastate the suburb of Putenicka.
Note that the following things, which are recorded about Brother Volz, the aforementioned commander, were done at different years, even though they are placed together here. For he himself, having assembled an army with those under his command, went up the river Jura by boat, and moving on from there to the castle of Putenickamal at daybreak, while the garrison soldiers were sleeping unaware, he entered the suburb, and after capturing and killing all except those who had fled to the castle, he reduced it to ashes. '
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Nota quod hec, que sequuntur de fratre Volz commendatore predicto, in — diversis annis facta sunt, licet hic simul ponantur. Ipse enim congregato exer citu cum hiis, qui sub dicione sua fuerunt constituti, navigio ascendit fluvium Juram, et procedens ultra ad castrum Putenickamal in ortu diei occulte dormientibus castrensibus intravit suburbium, et captis et occisis preter eos, qui ad castrum confugerant, redegit in favillam. '
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