Therefore, as already noted, a chamberlain in Russia is usually a powerful family or fortune, a young heir of a great name who, on the shoulders of the nobility, rises to the heights of the future manager of the affairs of the Commonwealth. It was precisely this fact that more and more outstanding personalities began to hold the office of chamberlain here that caused inconvenience to the nobility. The chamberlain, being busy with numerous important matters of the Republic of Poland, the legacy, the popular movement, the Sejm, etc., and holding other offices and dignities, could not supervise the affairs of his office and, therefore, defend the rights of the nobility in the field of chamberlainship. Let us take in our hands the oldest book of the Przemyśl chamberlain, and we will digitally see for ourselves this inconvenience of the nobility. And so Rafał Jarosławski, Chamberlain of Przemyśl, postponed eleven matters in 1477; his successor, Jakób Koniecpol-'ki, twenty-two cases in 1478. In the years 1479 to 1487, during the chamberlainship of Kmita's successor, Stanisław of Pilcza, the number of unresolved cases increased to sixty and two, and only a few resolved cases, the latter of which are included in this volume; During the reign of Stanisław Kmita in 1487, we count seven unresolved cases out of two resolved ones. Therefore, it is easy to guess that the statute of John Albert of 1496, under which chamberlains were forbidden to postpone specified dates under penalty XIV. fines, were received mainly from the eastern voivodeships, as they suffered the most and here the provisions of the statute the Podkomorzowie themselves claim in their acts as binding 69j. Indeed, as the Przemyśl records show, the repositioning of the deadlines set by the Podkomorzys decreases and stops for some time. The influence of eastern voivodeships on the development of border legislation occurs tsdy
'*) Pr. Succam. 254 p 656 — 657; the voivode started an appeal against the Chamberlain's judgment. ") AGZ. XV. N. 4634.