Poland is gradually edging itself into the territories and the interior troubles of Preussen; prefatory to greater operations that lie ahead there.
"SECOND PERIOD, of Fourteen years.

So it had gone on, from bad to worse, till 1440; when the general population, through its Heads, the Landed Gentry and the Towns, wearied out with fiscal and other oppressions from its domineering Ritterdom brought now to such a pinch, began everywhere to stir themselves into vocal complaint.

Complaint emphatic enough: 'Where will you find a man that has not suffered injury in his rights, perhaps in his person?
Our friends they have invited as guests, and under show of hospitality have murdered them.

Men, for the sake of their beautiful wives, have been thrown into the river like dogs,'-- and enough of the like sort.

[Voigt, vii.