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1. We, the clerical and secular councils of the Crown, and all the knights of the Lviv land, who are the universals of JW. Mr. Gerzy Mniszek, voivode of Sendomiersk, starosta of our Lviv, according to the constitution of the previous Warsaw Sejm on the inhibition of free people issued, pro die 13 mensis praesentis came here to Lviv, although we see that for the letters of IMci Mr. Russian voivode ^), who in the absence of J. kr. The Lord is superior to the quartz army, these masses of free-spirited people who take over our estates, including the leases of J. kr. The men and the townsmen under the banners of the war apparatus suffered considerable damage, wandering about freely, but although there was a malum non esset sublalum and perhaps even a recrudescere, and then even more investigation of us and the Republic of Poland during the absence of J. kr. You can put yourself in danger, after thanking THEM, the voivode of Sendomierski, for having done enough of his duties as the elder, we also asked him not to give up on it and, indeed, he added omnera curam et diligentiam to it, so that such heaps would no longer come here in their jurisdiction and would not harm us and our properties. Because according to ancient laws and even more so from the present Constitutional Sejm ^) there is sufficient power for the office of J. the King. He is fortified, and it is his duty to restrain the kind of freedom that contemnit leges et magistratus, contemnit dignitatem et authoritatem principis, turbat tranąuillitatem publicam, peccat publice contra leges, to which we have also offered our willingness and all readiness. 2. And in order to make it more careful and useful, we have used, and IMć pp. senators, gentlemen, and brothers of our elders who deigned to be here with us at this time, so that they may be auxilio et consilio with them in this process

«) Stanisław Golski. ») VoI. II 1. 1664: i 1688 tit. About wanton people.