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113 When the King was to assemble the general militia, he had a

pole set up in each parish with a broom or bundle of twigs tied

to the top. This was called sending out the twigs. Every grown

man of the knightly order was obliged, under pain of loss of the

privileges of gentle birth, to rally at once to the Wojewoda's

standard. [The twigs symbolised the King's authority to inflict

punishment. The reign of Jan III. Sobieski was 1674-96.]

114 ["The district of Dobrzyn in Masovia, that exclusively Polish

region the central point of which is Warsaw. The inhabitants of

it are called Masovians; hence this name is also applied to the

men of Dobrzyn who emigrated from Masovia to

Lithuania."-Lipiner.]

115 [Bartlomiej is the Polish form of Bartholomew; Maciej and

Maciek (a diminutive) are variant forms of Matyasz (Matthias).]

116 By-names are really sobriquets.

117 [Krolik, Maciej's nickname, means both rabbit and little king

or kinglet.]

118 [See p. 333.]

119 [See note 29.]