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174 FRANK E. SYSYNand territorial patriotism of nobles who inhabited the Ukrainian lands,whatever their descent, culture, or religion. Since Lypyns'kyi, fewscholars have discussed the political thought of the Ukrainian nobility.16Recently I gained access to a text, hitherto published only in part, thatI believe to be one of the most important statements of regionalismamong the nobility of the Ukrainian lands incorporated during theUnion of Lublin. 17 Whereas many expressions of Ruthenian patriotismand defense of Orthodoxy have been published, few regionalist politicalstatements have been published or studied. Until now, the mostimportant have been the rather laconic instructions given to delegationsto the Diets from the Ukrainian palatinates. 1816Two doctoral theses have recently been prepared on related topics: StephenVelychenko, "The Influence of Historical, Political, and Social Ideas on the Politicsof Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyi and the Cossack Officers between 1648 and 1657"(London School of Economics, University of London, 1980); and TeresaChyńczewska-Hennel, "Świadomość narodowa Kozaczyny i szlachty ukraińskiejw XVII wieku" (Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences,Warsaw, 1982).17The beginning of the address was published by S. T. Golubev in Kievskiimitropolit Petr Mogiła i ego spodvizhniki: Opyt tserkovno-istoricheskogo issledovaniia,2 vols. (Kiev, 1883-1898), 2, pt. 2: 153-54. Golubev cites his source asMS 66 of the Pochaiv Monastery collection of the library of the Kiev TheologicalAcademy. This manuscript is described as MS 48 (Old 66) in V. M. Berezin,Opisanie rukopisei Pochaevskoi lavry, khraniashchikhsia ν bibliotekę muzeia priKievskoi dukhovnoi akademii (Kiev, 1881), which was also published in supplementsto Trudy Kievskoi dukhovnoi akademii, 1881, no. 7, pp. 1-24; no. 8,pp. 25-76; and no. 9, pp. 77-81. The manuscript is described as "A manuscript ofvarious contents, 1653-1654, in the Polish and Latin languages, in 190 folios,written by the nobleman Ivan Grusha" (p. 75). It contains various texts of churchhistory as well as letters and speeches, including, on folio 99, "Praxis orationumvarii generis, traditarum in collegio Mohilaeano-Kioviensi studiosae juventud." Itis now part of the collections of the Central Scientific Library of the Academy ofSciences of the Ukrainian SSR in Kiev. On folios 52v-54v there is a Votum wSenacie by Adam Kysil. While the attribution is correct and can be verified bydiaries of the Diet (cf. fn. 24 below), Kysil did not deliver it as a senator, but as adelegate to the Diet. This confusion is understandable, however, since the Diet of1641 was the one at which Kysil received a senatorial post. The copy of his votummay have been made from a faulty text or by an uneducated copyist, as theerroneous dates given for the Union of Brest and the Union of Lublin wouldindicate.18For instructions to delegates to the Diet and other documents, see ArkhivIugo-Zapadnoi Rossii, pt. 1, vol. 2 (Kiev, 1861), with an introduction by N. Ivanishev,pp. xv-lxiv. Special legislation for the territories is listed in N. P. Kovalskii(M. P. Koval's'kyi), Istochnikovedenie istorii Ukrainy: XVI-pervaiapolovina XVIIveka, pt. 3: Kharakteristika publikatsii istochnikov na inostrannykh iazykakh: