confines of Moravia, the Taborites, without intermission, galling their
rear. The river Igla, then frozen, opposed their flight. The enemy
pressing furiously, many of the infantry, and in a manner the whole body
of the cavalry attempted the river. The ice gave way and not fewer than
2000 were swalled up in the water. Zisca now returned to Tabor, laden
with all the spoils and trophies which the most complete victory could
give.

Zisca now began again to pay attention to the reformation; he forbid all
the prayers for the dead, images, sacerdotal vestments, fasts, and
festivals. Priests were to be preferred according to their merits, and
no one to be persecuted for religious opinions. In every thing Zisca
consulted the liberal minded, and did nothing without general
concurrence. An alarming disagreement now arose at Prague between the
magistrates who were Calixtans, or receivers of the sacraments in both
kinds, and the Taborites, nine of the chiefs of whom were privately
arraigned, and put to death. The populace, enraged, sacrificed the
magistrates, and the affair terminated without any particular
consequence. The Calixtans having sunk into contempt, Zisca was
solicited to assume the crown of Bohemia; but this he nobly refused, and
prepared for the next campaign, in which Sigismond resolved to make his
last effort. While the marquis of Misnia penetrated into Upper Saxony,
the emperor proposed to enter Moravia, on the side of Hungary. Before
the marquis had taken the field, Zisca sat down before the strong town
of Ausig, situate on the Elbe. The marquis flew to its relief with a
superior army, and, after an obstinate engagement, was totally defeated
and Ausig capitulated. Zisca then went to the assistance of Procop, a
young general whom he had appointed to keep Sigismond in check, and whom
he compelled to abandon the siege of Pernitz, after laying eight weeks
before it.

Zisca, willing to give his troops some respite from fatigue, now entered
Prague, hoping his presence would quell any uneasiness that might remain
after the late disturbance: but he was suddenly attacked by the people;
and he and his troop having beaten off the citizens effected a retreat
to his army, whom he acquainted with the treacherous conduct of the
Calixtans. Every effort of address was necessary to appease their
vengeful animosity, and at night, in a private interview between
Roquesan, an ecclesiastic of great eminence in Prague, and Zisca, the
lat