Part 7

Therefore, whoever does not grant the IMci voivodeship, let him not grant the Lviv hood, let him not grant the Warsaw voivodeship, let him not grant this congress, let him completely overturn all acts of interregni; what if he does, as long as the voivode suffers no harm or harm, we will be the same without a government, without justice, without a confederation, without a designated election time. Even we came here for free, if we do not grant our voivode and our head the right to la.m!lć we will. Enough of your rights have been broken, enough has gone wrong, it's time to leave him alone and not touch anyone in his dignity. But the mistake is so guilty once understood that it has never once transgressed a), but it continues to burn like wildfire; the hetman's law was broken, they now want to break it to their voivode; if they break the voivodeship, they will spoil all our publica and privata, they can enslave not only our lands and incomes, but also our people and liaisons and reduce them to nothing. As for the place, we admit that no other decisions can be made except in the place where it is universal and where the custom itself shows, but we cannot go there to those people who, in the person of the voivode, violate our laws and we cannot have order and obedience. We also warn that they should not be justly offended by the words that they spoke to them, Mr. Voivode, so that by responding according to their words, blood could be shed between us. And we cannot even make sure that we are standing in loco incompetenti, because we are standing near Wiśnia, in a field next to the Raka River, where the first descents took place. And since it means nothing on the other side of the river, it is in fact pleasing to human harm and human curse. Therefore, we ask Your Majesty not to make such dismembrances and come to your voivode, and if anyone has a privatam inimiciciam, let him put it aside for the time being, or let him speak to the person himself, without disappointing the Republic of Poland or tearing it apart. Each of us will be ready to defend ourselves and defend our own justice, if necessary, as befits a good person. 3. After leaving with this response, Mr. Chamberlain of Sanok ^), Mr. Cupbearer of Lviv '), Mr. Michaliowsky '). envoys sent to the convocation, so that the voivode and their other members came to that group wanting the envoys that they were supposed to deliver to the convocation. They were told that "there is no need to accept messages from them, because each of us has this Warsaw Convocation at home, each of us knows what they came with and what slavery they brought to us, there is no need to declare it in long words." They themselves, as wise people, will judge how much they owe us, having taken from us the limitatam potestatem, they perforce decided over the instruction, over the archbishop's proposal, over the law, over freedoms, they did not touch anything that was entrusted to them, and according to their own ideas they imposed others against the instruction, in which they only took out five articles, and against Sigismund's law, which was passed to us in I was told to follow the instructions. So if nothing else were to happen, just that they cared about other things than instructions, they brought enough rem exempli to us that the other MPs would later wear whatever they wanted, and we would jump as they played for us. We are not asking this of the MPs for them to do it scientes et tolentes, but rather we will attribute it to our misfortune et iniquiatiti temporum or factioni adversae, but in order for us to listen to this, which is an insult to our freedoms, we will not do it, let it be their grace. Because it was agreeable, Mr. do to all the deputies as one did to them, Mr. Krasiczka, of the Przemyśl army, who did not allow any thing except to change the time of the election place, I protested with everything, so we understand this, we recommend love in the Republic of Poland and we thank them kindly*. To this, one of the envoys said that no virtuous person could blame what we had brought from Warsaw. They were told that it was all about virtue and that I do not know about these matters, that he should give iudicium or recommend himself, but those who appointed them to this office should give you testimony about it; we cannot listen to such things, because if we rightly blamed something and you responded so hastily, I don't know what would result from it, one confusion and the spilling of blood*. With that they left, and the others a) we will cross L. Jerzy Michałowski.