
718 document 28 (december 1539)
– Braclav with lands, waters, etc.;
– Sneporod and Hlyns’k with lands etc.;
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– Žolvaž
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and Putyvl’
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along with lands, waters, etc.;
– Byryn, Synec, Xoten’, Losyčy, Xotmyšl, and Oskol along with lands, waters,
and all revenues;
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– Kozel’sk;
– the tümen of Saraj’s son, i.e., the estate of Jagoldaj;
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—all these estates, castles, people, oak woods, etc., along with their lands,
waters, and all their prots, wherever anything comes or ows in, [should]
belong to you, our brother, the great king, your son, and the state and throne
of Lithuania.
Having taken counsel with the sultans, our sons, and with the ulans, beys,
and mirzas, we have taken a rm oath: we should remain in brotherly and
good friendship with Sigismund, the great king and the grand duke of Lithu-
ania, and with your son, the great king and grand duke; and so should our
sons, and our ancestors should likewise remain in brotherly friendship with
your ancestors.
And whichever castles, estates, and villages the duke of Muscovy treacher-
ously took from your father, King Casimir, your brother, King Alexander, and
from you, I, Sahib Giray Khan, should—God willing—with God’s help take
back these castles from him, having raided the Muscovian state with large
troops, [and restore to you];
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and we should faithfully serve
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our brother, the
great king, your son, and their [i.e., your] ancestors. And we will reciprocate
the enmity of [your] Muscovian enemy or any other enemy. I, Sahib Giray
Khan, along with my sons and our large troops, will face [your] enemy wher-
ever needed, now and in the future, and we will not do otherwise.
And as regards the wrongful acts committed to your Polish and Lithuanian
states in the times of our father and elder brother, and in the times of King
Casimir, [your] brother, King [John] Albert, and King Alexander, by Mehmed
Giray Khan, our ancestors, ulans, beys, mirzas, and other servants, you should
release the aforementioned damages from your heart. And now, when you, our
brother, King Sigismund, are in the place of your father, King Casimir, and
King Albert, and King Alexander, as they used to forgive the former wrongful
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On Sneporod and Hlyns’k, cf. Document 8, notes 8–9.
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Cf. Document 8, n. 10.
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Recorded in a corrupt form as Budula; cf. the earlier documents.
9
On the spelling of the names Byryn and Sinec, see n. x above. Apart from Oskol,
these estates were situated in the region of Putyvl’ and on the rivers Sula and Vorskla,
cf. Document 8, notes 11–15. Oskol (here corruptly recorded as Uscun) once belonged
to the tümen of Jagoldaj; see Document 8, n. 19, and n. 10 below.
10
Cf. n. z above; on this estate, extending between the upper Sejm and the upper
Donec rivers, and its former owner, Jagoldaj, son of Saraj, see Document 8, n. 18.
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Apparently omitted.
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In B. “and they [i.e., these castles and their inhabitants] should serve forever [our
brother, etc.].”