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1. Instructions for the Warsaw General Assembly ') Their Mć pp. to our envoys Alexander Trzebin*, the chamberlain of the town, Piotr Ożga from Ossa, the land writer of Lviv, Felician Grochowski, the land writer, Wojciech Przedwojewski, the Przemyśl sword-maker, Samuel Humnicki, the sub-table of Sanok, Stanisław Sobiegurski.... the Sanok lands at the Wiśnia sejmik pro die decima quinta Septembris gathered. Always right J. kr. Our Lords, congratulating us on our good health for many years and offering our faithful submission, when the fortunes of war and the enemy's hand with fire and sword were inflicting their fierceness on the countries of our voivodeships alone, they thanked us for the consideration and support that the rationes of the Republic of Poland had borne at that time, but even now, when other parts of our home countries are facing dangers and consequences. treacherous enemies have felt various pains, they will thank their Messrs. our members that J. kr. Without giving up his years or his health, he set out with his master to make this enemy abominable and considered the course of his plans, which undoubtedly wanted to devour insolescenti fortuna as the furthest riscera of the Republic of Poland interneciva hostilitate. 2. And since, after almost the destruction of our countries, we know what incommoda beili are and what consequences they bear, and we take pity on our distant brothers, whose luck has returned, and we consider these brotherly ailments as ours, the loss and destruction of others as our own, and we want to save them, according to the customs of the Republic of Poland, how many weakened strengths and means of supply. 3. We therefore entrust this to Mr. to our envoys, that they, having regretted the loss of vicissitudinem fortunae and the destruction of the leading fortresses and ports of that province, abolish themselves with the upper and all other voivodeships in communion, advising on the recuperation of such significant parts of the Republic of Poland, and look for every means to prevent this treacherous enemy from enjoying the power and rule of the Republic of Poland. J. kr. They could restore it. In order to achieve this effect more easily, we give our plenary potestatum to Mr. our deputies should agree and conclude everything that would be ex re et commodo totius Reipublicae, however, specialiter stipulating that in taxes, which are non sufTicimus, no more than other voivodeships sub nuUitatis vitio, and the security of the home countries, to which the greatest always moles periculorum imminet and spills over to other voivodeships, nothing should be offended, and namely, the quartz army, privileged by the common law of our provinces, was not reduced or reduced in any inventive way, we note, indeed, considering the magnitude of the periculi from both Ukraines, a separate proportionate contribution was made to this army. 4. And if, with the consent of the estates, a popular movement is to take place, they are not to abandon it to the private. our envoys, so that these six voivodeships: Kiev, Ruthenian, Volhynian, Podolia, Łódź, Bratslav, should not be detached from their wall, and stay away from the Hungarian wall

>) By the universal of July 30, 1626, the sejm was scheduled for October 13 and the sejmik for September 16. C. Leop. 877 p. 1492. However, on September 12, with a universal dated from Grudziądz, the king postponed the Sejm to November 10, due to Gustav Adolf's invasion of Prussia. C.San. 16il p. 62-63.