He would attend to nothing in the Reich; "the Prag white beer, and girls" of various complexion, being much preferable, as he was heard to say.

He had to fling his poor Queen's Confessor into the River Moldau,--Johann of Nepomuk, Saint so called, if he is not a fable altogether; whose Statue stands on Bridges ever since, in those parts.

Wenzel's Bohemians revolted against him; put him in jail; and he broke prison, a boatman's daughter helping him out, with adventures.

His Germans were disgusted with him; deposed him from the Kaisership; [25th May, 1400 (Kohler, p.

331).] chose Rupert of the Pfalz; and then after Rupert's death, [1410 (ib.p.