FOOTNOTES:
Jeremiah Curtin translation
Footnote 1: This name is derived from baba an old woman.
Footnote 2: Sapyeha.
Footnote 3: Lvoff.
Footnote 4: Self-lord Zamoyski.
Footnote 5: Zamoyski was starosta of Kaluj.
Footnote 6: “Strachy na Lachy” (Terror on Poles) is a Polish saying, about equivalent to “impossible.”
Footnote 7: “Two-bridged” or “of two bridges,” from bis and pons.
Footnote 8: Byes means “devil;” so Byes Cornutus is “horned devil.”
Footnote 9: Rogaty means “horned.” Borzobogaty means “quickly rich.” Bardzorogaty means “greatly horned.”
Footnote 10: This means that if Zagloba had been preceptor to the hetman or Kovalski, they would have had better wit. “Having a stave loose or lacking in his barrel,” means, in Polish, that a man’s mind is not right.