The Council of Hundred writes to the incumbent captain and podestà of Koper regarding the news that the people of Buje rebelled against Venice, greenlighting the proposal to destroy the walls of Buje and informing him and the captain of Rašpor that they should continue with their original plan (i.e., destroy the walls), but keep intact the houses and possessions of the citizens and dwellers of Buje.
Die XIIIo novembris.
Capta in Consilio C.
<Ser Nicolaus Victuri, ser sapiens Consiliia, ser Bertucius Pisani sapiens guerre>
(+) Quod respondeatur potestati et capitanei Iustinopolis ad ea que scribit, quod capitaneus noster paysinaticorum Raspurch equitavit ad Bulleas cum intentione prosterni faciendi muros et fortilitia Bullearum, quia illi de Bulleis calcitrare principiabant, utendo verbis turpibus contra honorem nostri Dominii, et cetera, quod recommendamus provisionem et deliberationem suam, quia habemus quod sit bona et utilis pro factis nostri Dominii, et mandetur capitaneo predicto Raspurch ac dicto potestati quod, si ita est ut scribit, quod illi de Bulleis sint male intentionis, ut supra, quod exequantur dictam deliberationem et provisionem, non faciendo tamen aliquam novitatem in domibus, habitationibus et bonis civium et habitatorum Bullearum.
De parte 61.
De non 4.
Nin sinceri 14.
a) Ser Nicolaus Victuri, ser sapiens Consilii] sic A: pro Ser Nicolaus Victuri sapiens Consilii.
The deliberation shows that even after the promulgation of their official pacts of subjection (see this document), the people of Buje, or at least a noticeable part of them, were not content with becoming part of the Venetian Dominion. For their “resistance” and “insults” the people of Buje were harshly punished: the Council of Hundred – a temporary council created to deal exclusively with the issues concerning the war against King Sigismund and his allies (Enrico Besta, Il Senato veneziano: Origine, costituzione, attribuzioni e riti (Venice 1899), pp. 43–44, 131–134) – greenlighted the destruction of the walls and fortifications of Buje, leaving the newly conquered and annexed community a mere “village” in the medieval sense of urbanity.
The walls of Buje will be rebuilt by Venice in 1459 (see this document).
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