to whom') as the starosta of the Przemyśl land, so that in our absence, the husband of our children, houses and ships, would warn us and inform the upper lands about the return of this enemy to the side and his actions. In doing so, he often announced to the Voivode of Krakow, to the Lord of Sandomir, to the Crown Chancellor, to the Treasurer, that this enemy, with his speed and former readiness, had devastated the Russian, Podolia, Belz, and Volhynian lands with fire, taking people and crops, asking and advising on behalf of ours, so that they could deign to put their efforts into making sure that the election of the future lord on the borders adjacent to this enemy would take place. They felt sorry for it and took pity on it themselves and encouraged their brothers to go, and at the same time, through their letter to them, they offered the lord of Sanok a solid and quick solution at their provincial assembly, which ad XXIII Octobris is the day when we have gathered for the election to provide a solid defense, only asking for advice and adding certain reasons so that we do not miss or postpone the appointed time and place of the election. Finally, by writing their Proszów assembly to our assembly, Their Majesty deigned to wait a few days in Warsaw for us. 3. We, considering ourselves and the need to be present at the election, so that we would not lose this great prerogative of our knighthood by electing a lord who, when we leave, would not sow the last of our wealth in ashes, so among ourselves, not according to the need, as it should be, but as it could be, we decided at this time that certain people from our Russian lands should go to the election with full power, representing people of all of us, and there, in the name of God, they celebrated it together with other citizens of the crown, however, making sure that it would not result in any future consequences, so that when in the Russian lands an election was held in this way by certain people and not by all citizens, which at that time, due to the imperilability of the enemy, would force upon us. Therefore, we appoint from the Lviv region Mr. Stanisław Żółkiewski, Mr. Stanisław Krasicki, the Lviv boarder, Mr. Hieronim Krzeczowski, the starosta of Szereszowfiki, from the Przemyśl region, Mr. Walenty Orzechowski, the Przemyśl judge, Mr. Jan Biejkowski, the Przemyśl boarder, Mr. Jerzy Frerd, Mr. Thomasz Drohoiowski; from Sanoczka, the land of Mr. Mikołaj Sienieóski, the Sanok judge, Mr. Stanisław Czarnocki, the Sanok judge, and Mr. Józef Dedinski, the Sanok deputy judge; from Galicia, Mr. Prokop Raszek, the land writer of Galicia, Mr. Ivan Pletenicki; from Trębowelska, Mr. Mikołaj Wilczek, Mr. Mikołaj Baworowski; from Kołomyja, Mr. Jakub Chocimierski and Mr. Krzisztof Błudnicki, who are all to appear in Warsaw on the said election day and, apart from any practices, they only have God himself before their eyes, and they are to elect a king together with the other members of the Polish People's Republic, carefully remembering what was entrusted to them in the assembly of the elector's side'). 4. And all other citizens who serve the war should, apart from their Lords, councils, who are going to the elections in their own persons and carry other onus from their starostes, according to custom and readiness for war, leave their homes from Monday next in two Sundays, and go to the place mentioned below due to the loss of their property, as those who would stay with expeditionem bellicam: the land of Lviv near Lviv, Przemyśl at Wiśnie at Jaworów and Gródek; Sanok at Chyrów; Chełmska u Kamionka; Trembowelska at Trembowlia, Halicka at Halicz; Kołomyjska u Kołomyja. To all of whom the prefects described below are to distribute properly, which we mark in each land: in the Lviv land of Mr. Mikołaj Herborth, Mr. Jan Białoskorski, Mr. Marcin Kunath; in Przemyśl, Mr. Marcin Czurył, Mr. Stanisław Starzechowski, Mr. Stanisław Stadnicki from Zmigrod; in the Sanok land, the chamberlain and the Sanok standard-bearer, Mr. Christoph Tarnawski; in Halych, Trębowel, Kolomyia, Chełm, officials of the local lands. 5. To whom all honesty and obedience are to be paid to the prefects in the same way as to a hetman in war. These people are wearing uniforms
>) Jan Herburt from Fulsztyn. •) At the same time, at its assembly in Chełm, the Chełm region decided to go to the elections.