THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2235, sig. 109-11/36

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ZT Budweiser Stadtarchivar der ischechischen Benesch=Systemzeit Burian admits that only before the Hussite Wars a strong Czechman enters Budweis. August 1335 King John of Bohemia granted the citizens of Budweis the right to dismiss any resident or citizen who is not in their liking to them from the city, since he at the same time authorized them to revoke a U n g e l d, whereby in the document this German Budwei. The Rabenstein Tower is used for the delivery, which is to be raised for the maintenance of bridges and streets of all wines, grains and merchant goods imported into the city. Only in the year 1388, that is full 123 years after the foundation of Budweis=Neustadt, can the first Czech name be found in a document about this city, while, of course, in the old town of Budweis, we do not know anything about the founding of the city, from the beginning also Czechs seem to have lived, the 1307 then already in Budweiz Neustadt 7