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Lugven went away to Lithuania and withdrew the lieutenants from the Novgorod townships.

• And Knyaz Vasih of Moscow and Ivan of Tver went to the Horde to Tsar Zeleni-Sultan, the son of Takhtamysh. And King Yagailo and Vitovt and Lugven sent a challenge to Novgorod on January 2. And the King and Vitovt spoke thus: " You undertook to be on our side ; if the Germans combine against us, you would combine against the Germans; and that we should stand as one man together and strengthen ourselves on both sides against all chances if this should happen; but if this should not be necessary, then nothing would come of it; and we moreover sent our Boyars Nemir and Zinovi Bratoshich [to find out] whether you stand by the aforesaid word. And you replied to Nemir : ' Novgorod cannot do this ; we are at peace both with Lithuania and with the Germans. We took over Knyaz Lugven from amongst you; and with the Germans we have taken perpetual peace, and we are at peace with the Ugry people (Hungarians?), and with all on our borders.' And you having forgotten your word have not kept it, to be on our side; and besides, your people have upbraided us, dishonoured us, and put us to shame, calling us pagans; and above all, you have received our enemy Fedor, the son of Yuri Svyatoslavich."

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