Hussite Chronicle (De gestis et variis accidentibus regni Boemiae)

Lawrence writes as a partisan of the communion of the chalice, which he calls “the truth”, and as an opponent both of the crusaders and of the radical Taborite priests, whose violence and whose new teachings he reports with disapproval. He gives the events at Prague in 1419 and 1420 day by day, with documents copied in: the Four Articles as the city sent them to the besieging army, the Taborites’ demands, and the reply of Sigismund.

His figures are those of a man inside the walls: he puts the besieging army at more than 150,000 and the attackers killed at Vítkov at three hundred in an hour. He tells the relief of the bulwark on that hill as a miracle. In this edition the chronicle runs to 1422. See the Hussites and the Compacts of Basel.