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170 В. N. FLORJAthe Lviv Chronicle can be deemed trustworthy. The "statements" also supplementin a number of details the account in the Lviv Chronicle of the captureby the Cossacks of "a German captain" (kapitana nimec'koho) (Bevzo1971, p. 106). This is, apparently, a reference to the German officers fromGdańsk who came to negotiate the recruitment of additional troops forKoniecpolski's army. It is also further evidence of the measures taken tomobilize troops to quell the uprising. The report (absent from other sourcesbut whose reliability is not in doubt) that the khan's son Sähln Giraj sent aNogay detachment to help the rebellious Zaporozhian Cossacks also coincideswith the known history of interrelationships between the Cossacks andthis member of the Giraj family. At the same time, it speaks of the Cossacks'search for allies in their struggle against the Commonwealth.Another unique report in our source—about the Zaporozhian Cossacks'expectation of receiving help from the Don Cossacks—also agrees withwhat we know about the interconnections between the Don and the ZaporozhianCossacks; 3furthermore, this information supplements our knowledgeof the diplomatic activity of the insurgents.Finally, the terminology used in the "statements under interrogation" todescribe military activities deserves attention. A difference is made in the"statements" between "moneyed people" (grosevye ljudi; Polish, groszowiludzie)—the regular "quarter" army (wojsko kwarciane), paid for by a quarterof the royal revenues—and the "levy en masse" (pospolitoe ruSen'e;Polish, pospolite ruszenie), the nobility's landsturm. Whereas the moneyedpeople, together with Hetman Koniecpolski, crossed the Dnieper andengaged the Cossacks in battle, the arrival of the levy en masse to Perejaslavwas still awaited in May 1630. The circular letters (uniwersały) callingthe levy en masse, which the hetman issued from Bar before setting outon the campaign, were, apparently, ineffective and prompted him to reissuecircular letters, this time from his camp near Perejaslav. 4By juxtaposingthese testimonies, one concludes that those detachments of "soldiers"(źolnery; Polish, żołnierze), which the Cossacks attacked and preventedfrom crossing the Dnieper and reaching the hetman's camp, were the verysame levy en masse which, according to Andreas's testimony, Stanisław3It is known, for example, that in March 1630 a detachment of Zaporozhian Cossacks arrivedat the river Don; later, they joined the Don Cossacks in a naval expedition against the Crimea(Istorićeskoe opisanie, vol. 1 (1869): 216-17).4For the texts of the circular letters see Arxiv Jugo-Zapadnoj Rossii, pt. 3, vol. 1 (1863), nos.80,84.