[43]

Posadnik is about the same as mayor.

[44]

In the Slavic version of the Chronicle of Dalmatia, the Epistles instead of the Palter are named.

[45]

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.