ABSTRACT
In the year '408, according to the minor reckoning, the sixteenth year of the reign of King Wladislaw, there lived a Cossack in the town of Czehiryn, and his name in Russian was Chmiel, while in Polish he was called Chmielecki. For Chmiel was a very sly man and was aware of the thing. The noble Choronzhy, therefore, appropriated one shed containing many hundred heads of cattle which amounted to about half of Chmiel's stock. The oppressor Chmiel, however, remained silent, so that the nobleman might not become suspicious of him; also he would not dare to dictate to the nobleman what to do when the latter is regarded in his province as a King in his kingdom.
