However, it happened that the nobility in arms passed resolutions that had no relation to the war, such as conscription, adopted by the Sanok landowners on August 17, 1618. 1). The king, of course, abolished the resolution as illegal 2). However, in the society of the nobility, the concept of its legislative power is developing more and more, even in armed particular meetings. Such military meetings include the long-practiced presentation of nobility before the voivode or castellan. The land authorities had the opportunity to see here how ready and armed the landowners were. The displays were neglected, but in the face of the Turkish terror they were revived. We provide here a whole series of display registers from the years 1617-1638, both of Lviv and Przemyśl landowners showing off at the Holy Cross, as well as those of Sanok showing off near Sanok. They are an interesting document because we also have lists of those who did not fully use the rights of the nobility, the brothers of the lesser poor, the media militia, who took part in all meetings of the nobility, voted, answered in land courts and presented themselves in front of the castellan with a stick, sometimes on a mare, but more often with a club or, as the camp writer wittily points out here, with his feet on his soles. 3), speaking about themselves in the Samborszczyzna 4), that they had fallen into poverty as a result of the abuse of the Sambori starostas, who ordered the peasants to obey their former masters more than..; that others died wandering under fences, many of them went to Vlachs and Hungary, some went to Turks, others were executed, hanged, and many died begging... what previously several hundred of them served the Polish People's Republic to good ends, today twenty horses from all these villages will not go to serve the Polish People's Republic, the others have to leave, shabby and on sticks, because everything has been taken away... The Jewish curse has almost been fulfilled over them, that your slaves will rule over you, cries the poor nobility of Samborsk 5).
Already Łoziński in "Prawem i lewem" pointed to these registers of appearances as a source for the history of this minor nobility and gave an accurate characterization of them. Small pieces are cut off. this nobility is listed in the registers of other nobility with its sometimes strange surnames and nicknames, the name itself is striking in its diverse sound - and so in the Kopystyński, Biliński, Błażowski, Podwysocki, Brosniowski, Sulecki families we meet the Ferens and Farat families, the Dziordzi family, the Czajkowski family, the Kolorsz family, the Stasi family, next to the Hrycka and Iwan family. But when a dozen or so Jasniski, Witwicki or Strutyński families showed up at the ceremony, it was easy to find several or even a dozen of the same name among them. Therefore, as was the old general Slavic custom, patronymics were added. For example, the Czajkowskis add to
*) No. 169 p. 303. *) No. 7 art. 1. ^) No. 7 art. 2. About the great envy of the Samborski peasants against this nobility, see the sejmik's instruction of 1626, No. 149 art. 38. The sejmik supported the requests of the Sambor nobility; in 1632, the Wisze sejmik recommended the desiderata of this nobility to support him at the sejm. Ob. No. 182 articles 48 and 49.