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Big fire in Novgorod. And thus there was a great calamity so that only God and the good people on earth stopped it, and evil men fell to plundering. What was in the churches they took all in plunder without fear of God, and knowing God's punishment instead of repentance they did worse evil: at St. loan's they killed the warehouse guard, at St. Yakov's the warehouse-guard was burnt. In the market quarter twelve churches were burnt; they had not time to bring out all the pictures, nor books. And in Christ Church several people were burnt, also two priests In the Nerev quarter ten churches were burnt with many embroideries in the churches, and the good man Elferi Lazorevich was burnt...

• Estonia, Pskov river battle

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