the king's ban, they invade, plunder the cities and thus destroy the alliance and bring us to nothing, and separately they war and devastate the Vlach land, from where the Hzplta in maximum discrimen et periculum comes. Please J. kr. It is necessary that the authority of the next Sejm should restrain this wantonness and that these Cossacks should be the editors of the execution of the decisions of their Lordship. commissioners, which they made last year. 16. Private people dared to do this and, contrary to the will and prohibitions of the king, and against the law itself, they privately gathered troops in Vlachia, devastated those lands, murdered many people, and according to their intentions, they placed the host of that country on the state, which brought great danger to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Please J. kr. He would deign to make serious animadverts, so that no one would dare to follow this example, and if those who were wronged were to seek compensation for their damages, let the Parliament declare it. We are very displeased with the sudden behavior of the princes of Courland, iura et conditiones feudi, and it is important for all estates to pay attention to this, so that no a beneficiariis contemptus et abusus, but no opportunitate et rationibus temporis recte servalis, may occur under the majesty and jurisdiction of the king of the Empire and the Republic of Poland. 17. Disrupting the Sejms, which one or several persons tend to do, is very harmful to our rights and freedoms, because one thing is the greatest and the best ad omnia Reipublicae commoda et incommoda et ad omnes necessitates remedium, free consultations and conclusions of all classes at the Sejm, should be sought by pp. our deputies, that a strict cum paenis law be passed on those who would do this temere, and immediately a modus conclusionis consultationum publicarum should be persuaded. 18. Nevertheless, it is also harmful to the law and common peace that cum signis et armis bellicis arrive at the sejms with great tumult, whence the authority of J. the kr. There is a disgrace to the law and common peace, there is a great crowding and food shortages, and some armies and greedy people come to the Chamber of Deputies in tumult to accommodate the MPs. they replace the local envoys and oppress them, the MPs are to take urgent care of this. Our deputies and other voivodeships have reached an agreement to ensure that such a large and significant parliamentary congress and the place of the parliamentary group will be free from tumults non obruerelur. 19. At the election of the tribunal deputies, which is supposed to be free for everyone, such praeiadicia is taking place, in which some people come in large numbers to get more votes, which offends the libertas electionis people, people and peace, and they should find a way to deal with it. our deputies from two other voivodeships, so that the elections proceed in posterum in their own way and that no one comes to them tumultuarie sub paenis. 20. In the tribunal, due to the crowding of cases and lazy courts, Mr. the deputies have been lacking in the voivodeships for only a few years, with great delay and injustice to human justice, so they have to abolish themselves around this time. our deputies together with other voivodeships and find a way to prevent such iustitiae tarditas in the court from which everyone expects the greatest consolation, and at the same time to prevent such great depactations from happening in the court. 21. Our brothers of the Greek religion bring up their grievances at our congresses and at the present assembly, appealing to the rights and privileges of their ancients and to the constitution on religion and the rights of their servants; we commission pp. to our deputies to act diligently and make such efforts at the next Sejm as if peace had come and their rights were preserved, and the trials against the priests were received from Father Krupecki so that penitus would be abolished. Our brothers of various religions are also looking for and demanding their peace, and they will try to do so. our deputies, as if peace was guaranteed by their rights, without derogating in any way from the rights of the Roman Catholic Church, and that the utrique parti serviens process should be persuaded*). 22. The Republic of Poland has been complaining about a bad coin for a long time, and there is no change or improvement in this matter, and in fact, they are making things worse and worse, with great harm and insult to the Republic of Poland, we pray to the King and Mr.
') Konstanty MohUę. ^) The Ruthenian nobility of the Przemyśl land was very determined and fierce against the ruler of Atanazy Krupecki, as well as against the union in general; see their protest against the same ruler in 1610. Ter. Prem. 75 p. 1779.