ABSTRACT

In the seventh year of King Wladislaw's reign, the year (5)339 there arose a Cossack by the name of Pawliuk, to avenge the wrong of his people and to rebel against the kingdom of Poland. Each time the Ukrainians rebelled they fled to this place, for no man came there save the Cossacks. No sooner did the adventurer arrive there than Cossacks and Ukrainians in the hundreds and the thousands joined him. No sooner did the adventurer arrive there than Cossacks and Ukrainians in the hundreds and the thousands joined him. They also partitioned the Kingdom of Poland among themselves, the oppressor Pawliuk was to be their king in the capital city of Warsaw. When King Wladislaw heard of this evil thing he delegated two generals, one Koniecpolski, and the other Potocki, along with a large army, headed by the great warrior Laszcz, to wage war against them.