STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1503, sig. 109-4/1257 (poškozeno) Page 137 · 137 of 87
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1503, sig. 109-4/1257 (damaged)
English Translation
"135 -3 - they would, however, be of the opinion that this had not been done out of an anti-rich attitude of the Czech peasant, but out of fear of a couming food catasprophe and of a generally acknowledged thick shingleness of the tachechian peasants against any authority's authority. Iohe replied that this, in the fact of fraud, as the Lords did, gave the courage to take note of these embezzlements, and that, if they were not aware of them, they would be helped by the Empire.