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against the English.^ In April both Pisten and Wekin were 

 totally destroyed by fire, the inhabitants having been forced to 

 flee.- This, then, must be the rcyse which included an attack 

 on 'a castle called Piskre,' and the storming- (rather than 'siege') 

 of Welun. It was an affair of so little moment that Voigt, the 

 historian of Prussia, does not even mention it. When Sir Wil- 

 liam de Lucy, who had served in Prussia,'' was in that country, 

 has not been ascertained. 



/?(55, July 20. William Ufford, second (ca. 1339- 1382) Earl 

 of Suffolk (and last of his line), and Thomas Beauchamp, 

 Earl of Warwick (ca. 1313-1369). After April 13, there had 

 been a three days' raid in the district of Erogeln* and Pastow, 

 at which was present the 'comes de Warwig, qui etiam per annum 

 stetit in Prussia cum suis.'^ On July 25 both earls were present 

 at Konigsberg at the baptism of Butavt, son of Keistut, who had 

 fled from imprisonment at the hands of his father. Butavt 

 received the name of Henry.*' He had surrendered himself at 

 Insterburg, whereupon the preceptors of the Order, convoked 

 at Marienburg for the purpose, decided to have the baptism take 

 place at Konigsberg, on account of the presence there of the 

 two earls.' 



' Voigt 5- 164. 



- S. R. P. 2. 84, 540, S46. Welun is on the Memel, about one-third of 

 the distance from Marienburg to Baierburg (Toeppen, Atlas ziir Hist- 

 Comp. Geog. von Preussen (11), Gotha, 1858). It is not to be confounded 

 with Vilna, as is done by Manly (Trans. Anier. Phil. Assoc. 38. loi, 

 note 2). Pisten is near the junction of the Dubissa with the Memel 

 (Toeppen). 



^ Scrope and Grosz'enor Controversy, ed. Nicolas, 2. 261-2 (i. 78). 



■* On the Dubissa river. Sec Jour. Eng. and Germ. Phil. 14. 386. 



'Wigand of Marburg (S. R. P. 2. 548-9) ; Voigt 5. 175. 



"Voigt 5- 176-8; Chron. Liv. (.S'. R. P. 2. 85); Wigand (S. R. P. 

 2. 551). 



'Wigand (S. R. P. 2. 551). This occurrence is much distorted in later 

 accounts. Thus in the Pageant of the Birth, Life, and Death of Richard 

 Beauchamp [1382-1439], Earl of IVarzvick (Longmans), we are told 

 (Plate XXII), that 'Earl Thomas his grandfadre ... in warre 

 had taken the kynges son of Lettowe, and brought hym into Englond, 

 and cristened hym at London, namyng hym after hymself Thomas.' And 

 Stubbs, relying on the traditions of the Beauchamps, reports (p. 194) : 



