ABSTRACT
In the year (5)362, according to the minor reckoning, the seventeenth year of the reign of King Sigismund, there arose a Ukrainian Priest, by the name of Nalevaiko to avenge the cruel treatment accorded his people. Gathering a large army of Ukrainians like the sand on the shore of the sea, he staged a rebellion against the Kingdom of Poland, and conquered all of [Little] Russia up to the City of Cudnow. The Cossacks who supported him were punished by having the number of their privileged reduced to twenty thousand. The rest were compelled to pay taxes to the King and the nobles. In the year 391, according to the minor reckoning, King Sigismund died, after ruling over Poland for forty-six years.
