De desolacione castri Peseta.
The Burning of Castle Besela
Upon hearing that Prussian forces besieged Königsberg, Kreuzburg, and Bartenstein, the brothers at Castle Besela, gripped by fear, deliberated at length before setting their own castle ablaze and retreating through hidden paths into the wilderness.
When the brothers at Castle Besela heard that the Prussians had laid siege to the castles of Königsberg, Kreuzburg, and Bartenstein, they were greatly afraid. After much deliberation and many discussions of various kinds, they set the castle ablaze and withdrew through hidden paths into the wilderness.
Read the original Latin
Fratres de Castro Besela audientes, quod castra Kunigsbergk, Cruceburgk et Barthenstein essentf a Pruthenis obsessa, timuerunt valde et post multa Con silia variosque tractatus habitos castrum in cinerem redigentes, per occultas vias solitudinis recesserunts.
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