707 people were captivated, some of them were executed.
During the so called Ten Years’ Victimisation of Protestants in Hungary which took part after Wesselényi’s conspiracy, there was violently taken also a church in the neighbouring village Tura Lúka (today part of Myjava). It resulted in the Revolt of Tura Lúka that was cruelly repressed. After the revolt in Senica (June 4, 1673), several rebels sheltered at Myjava farms on newly-cleared land and, led by John Strezenicky who was sent to the Myjava region by Anti-Habsburg rebels (”kuruci”) from Upper Hungary, they attacked Catholic priest nad yeomen’s mansions. In fact, those were already the first actions of the rebels ”kuruci” before the open stand up of Emmerich Thokoly to the emperor in 1678.
In 1690, the emperor Leopold I. Issued protective letters given out by mediation of the highest military council for Myjava and Tura Lúka. It protected his villeins from billeting soldiers on them and, it allowed the villeins to be taken under the imperial-royal protection and patronage. By that note he satisfied wishes of villages addressed to him concerning the subject of the religious liberty. Therefore, the Myjava inhabitants invited a Protestant clergyman Daniel Krman jr., the personality of whom influenced on the course of further events. On his initiative, a new church was built and, in 1697, Myjava was ransomed from paying duty of the copyhold, so that Myjava could gain also new lands on the ground of the town of today for settlements of new immigrants - mainly of craftsmen.
After the rising of Francis Rakoczi II. Broke out in 1703, the Myjava people, loyal to anti-feudal traditions, acknowledged the Rakoczi’s rising. The villeins took part in raids to the neighbouring Moravia. As a revenge, the imperial army burnt out Myjava on April 10, 1704. Several thousand people from Myjava and environs answered in the battle of Smolenice on May, 28, 1704, where they, together with rebellious soldiers killed 700 imperial soldiers. There were killed also 300 men from Myjava and its surroundings. During that rising, the Myjava inhabitants undertook other raids to Moravia, for which fact the imperial army plundered and burnt out Myjava three times again.
After the Rakoczi’s rising, many people left the subverted Myjava for southern parts of Slovakia, even for Hungary of today. E. g., in the village Oroszlanyi (Hungary), the use of the dialect from Myjava - Brezova was found out even after the World War II. and, the inhabitants remembered several Myjava songs.
The further development of Myjava is connected with the development of crafts. The oldest furriers’ guild existed there already in 1676, and its privilege was given them by the emperor Leopold I.