Part 8

not the crown of this homeland of ours, looking especially at the electas personas and their circumstances and at the statutory rerum nostrarum, we find that they will continue to support their venture, even extremisa) as it began, whichever side receives victory, that this is not the end, but they will continue to pursue it and entangle us with longer misery and affliction (God forbid) until the final fall and death. must. 2. Which all dangers and angarias, if any of the crown countries and states belonging to the Crown, must most concern us, the citizens of the Russian Voivodeship, who have paganism in almost everything, and even more so because we are free from all divergences et praedae hostium expositi, an open and clear border, a quarter against the clear law of another turned soldier brought back, we do not have a voivode or other councils with us, and in order to make our death, our wives, children and our possessions, they order us to leave sooner and more surely. 3. Therefore, in order to prevent all the above-mentioned dangers and to extinguish this fire lit according to our duty and our strength, and to enable others who love their country to do so, we also found and persuaded them to do so all the above-mentioned servitutis of our own accord, we found and persuaded each other to do so together. 4. First of all, we send electors to both of their Lordships, asking and admonishing them, that as Christian lords, adorned with all the virtues by birth and training, from such a violent undertaking and the shedding of the blood of Christians and our brothers, not only themselves but also their promoters and adherents, with their Lord's attention et authoritate sua, they will dissuade and stop the Crown that protects all Christianity. it was always a peak and a wall against pagan power and perhaps they did not lead to such a fall, but rather achieved aequis et iustis rationibus et censensu nostro quam armis parricidialibus et cruenta manu gubernacula regni. 6. From the same measure and to their lords and brothers who have maintained their adequacy, admonishing them to be careful and not be the ones through whom the eternal fall of the Crown would come, we wrote. 6. We also wrote to Her Mother's Queen and to Her Lady's bishops and to the lords of the councils and knights, Fr. Lithuanian, to help us with this intention. 7. We also wrote, and especially to them, the Archbishop of Gniezno as primas, seriously admonishing him to be an example of these famous autecessors, to be his patron patriae, to curb such scattered circles of autoritate sua, to resolve the conflicts between the elects of both parties until the time was right, for all the Crown and in Fr. A non-resident Lithuanian general congress should be held at which, with the help of the Lord God Almighty, such media could be found that would calm down this severe disorder and bring it to a more cheerful end. 8. What if neither their electors nor their adherents, through the persuasion of the archbishop and others, were willing to comply with our request, and stubbornly stood by their intentions, or if the archbishop did not want to get into this with others and did not want to hold a general congress for us, and then we would have to suffer this iudicatum and the unforeseen divine punishment and wait for some such exit of these matters, then we, however, will be an example of our virtuous ancestors, whose descendants and not their descendants we consider ourselves to be, so that we can offer the onus servitutis of the two sides that they want to impose on us, and we can make such a harmful exemplum in sequela of the harlot elect a violent attack on the kingdom and such factionibus power so that et imperare et iura dare of all the Republic of Poland can be imposed on themselves and their descendants. dragged away, first of all, before the Lord God and the whole world, we declare against all the above-mentioned as illegal and violent actions of our brothers, and under the honor of our faith and our conscience, before the Lord God, we solemnly promise ex nunc that we will not be subject to all the above-mentioned, nor will we attach ourselves to any of these parties, nor will we smear our hands with the blood of our brothers, in any violence. and enslavement from the opposite sides or a) P. externis.