Posadnik is about the same as mayor.
In the Slavic version of the Chronicle of Dalmatia, the Epistles instead of the Palter are named.
That the Glagolitic alphabet, as has been affirmed, was the one invented by Cyril, and was gradually changed into that afterwards known as the Cyrillic, is an untenable position; partly, because no form of writing could change in such a degree in one or two centuries; and partly, because in some early manuscripts both alphabets appear mixed, or rather are used alternately.