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3. Urgent deliberations about the danger of the Republic of Poland by J. kr. We admit that we are grateful and grateful for it, and that during this time such large pericula from several sides attacked the entire Republic of Poland, which we cannot discuss in particular without other estates and voivodeships according to our unions, and besides, we have fresh in our eyes very frequent or rather constant incursions of the Tartars, the devastation of the Podolia countries and Pokuttya, the abolition of Ukraine almost to the ground, and the taking into slavery. pagan, so much noble blood of our brothers with their wives and children, and most of all, an uncertain peace with the Turkish emperor, which all brings us great grief and fear, and therefore looking at both these and the other pericula affected below, we need urgent, wise and careful advice about ourselves, therefore we ask first J. kr. Mcci as our lord and defender, as well as theirs, Messrs. senators and all other estates, so that they could advise on the safety and integrity of the common homeland of the Republic of Poland at the next Sejm, ne quid detrimenti Respublica capiat.

4. We commission Mr. to our envoys, giving them, in eo facultatem, that they should be informed of all the dangers which we can already see and which may yet occur with all the voivodeships, 2 in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, of just and sufficient relief, which would enable them to provide other defense against such dangers ad securitatem nostram, as if the Republic of Lithuania had remained in its entirety. brought about it, following the consent of all classes and us, about whom the most and the first concern, not leaving undefended, but not hastening ad extrema belli offensiyi, and indeed looking for all modos et rationes, as we have with so many enemies, especially those from...