I. Professor Kalausek I have to thank for hints
about the earlier period. Professor Tomek I must
thank for allowing me to use the map of Prague
which appears in my book. I must also thank Dr.
Toman for the use of the curious pictures of Žižka.
For help in my work in other towns I must thank
Father Wurm, of Olmütz ( Olomouci); Mr. Palliardi,
of Znaym (Znojem); Professor Brettholz, of Brünn
( Brno); the Sub-librarian of Časlau; Professor Lem-
minger, of Kuttenberg (Kutna Hora); Mr. Gross, of
Krumov; Father Fučik, of Prachatice; Professor
Strnad, of Pilsen ( Plžen); Monsignore Rodler, of
Budweis (Budejóvice); the Keeper of the Archives
at Wittingau (Treboñ), and Professor Sedlaček, of
Tabor. I also wish to thank Mr. Čelakovsky, of the
Town Archives of Prague, for the suggestion about
the relation of the early Utraquist rising to the
differences between Bohemian workmen and German
employers (see Chap. ix. pp. 231, 232).

The question of when and how far to use the
Bohemian names of places is one of some difficulty.
My own instinct would be to use them wherever
possible. But it cannot be denied that there are
cases in which the German forms are so well known
to English readers, and some in which the Bohemian
names seem so unpronounceable, that it would be
affectation to follow the strict rules of national
expression. Praha, of course, has been hopelessly
Anglicized into Prague; and Olomouci, Cheb, Brno,
and Plžen have been as certainly Germanized into
Olmütz, Eger, Brünn, and Pilsen. Even in these
cases I have on some occasions added the Bohemian

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