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in Wlsnia, U. luarea 1634. Łandam of the Wiszeńsk sejmlek.

1. We, the council of dignitaries, officials and knights, citizens of the Ruthenian, Lviv, Przemyśl and Sanok lands, having gathered in Wisno for the assembly on March fourteenth from J. kr. Mci p. n. submitted to us *). First, taxes from the previous Sejm of the happy coronation of J. Kr. Mci by Their Mć pp. our envoys taken to us'), such as we published last year, and we agreed to allow, that is, the principal for the present year; levies: Lviv land seven, Przemyśl land four, Sanok land half a quarter, which we should spend under the wines de contributionibus publicis approved. 2. We allocated the seventh of these collections from the Lviv land to the defense of the castle and the city of Lviv, that is, the sum of one thousand zlotys for the townspeople's ashes. We mark this by adding that these ashes will remain in armentnrio publico and in the cupboard of the Treasurer of the Crown, unless, God forbid, there is a sudden danger to Lviv. Having given away a thousand zlotys. to the townspeople of Lviv from the seventh levy, the entire sum residuam of this levy will be handed over by the Lviv collector to the hands of the Lviv starosta *) for defense and the ashes to the Lviv castle, of which the Lviv starost should make a ration before the Crown treasurer and the Lviv land office. However, the collector of Lviv should make a sufficient account of all seven payments in the treasury sub iisdem paenis. 3. Which taxes are now allowed to be levied from us by the Treasurer of the Crown, and should be spent on the defense of Ukraine by our authority, because seeing such a violent danger, the summa necessitas has appeared there. 4. We have chosen pp. to choose these taxes. our collectors in the Land of Lviv, Mr. Seweryn Krzykawski, in the Land of Przemyśl, Mr. Jan Krasicki, the boarder of Sanok, and in the land of Sanok, Mr. Jan Fredro of Pieszowice, who praemisso iuramento in the city of their land, without waiting for the querels, will begin to collect these taxes from April Sunday, and choose them and hand them over to the treasury on two Sundays after the great night sub iisdem paenis they should. 5. Having been warned about the sudden danger from the pagans due to Abaz Basha's brave party, God forbid, there should be a periculum for the homeland, at which the army of the Crown Hetman, who is non sufficeret, will be turned away, and we should all march in a popular movement towards Lviv to the Russian Voivode, sub paenis de eipeditione bellica sancitłs for sending three MPs from the Russian voivode to our towns. Asking them, among other things, not to take us out of our homes in leviori periculo, unless, God forbid, praegnantem necessitatem of the Turkish war, with the exception that the Lublin tribunal and all courts in our lands be limited, as J. kr. We humbly ask that, out of paternal providence, the authority for the interponere tribunal be granted to IMci, the Archbishop of Gniezno, and IMci, the Lord of Krakow, *) as those to whom the cura Beipublicae is entrusted in the absence of the present King IMci. And we do understand their brotherly love. citizens of nearby voivodeships that, following our example, they will come to us out of their willingness and love for their homeland to extinguish such a great fire, we ask J. kr. He would like to send universal units to the nearby provinces, as if they would join us in the current danger. Please

1) This sejmik was held on March 13, 1434 by the king, with a message dated in the camp near Bogdanowa outside Smolensk on January 19, 1434, for the reason that the day after the depulatory sejmik, as former deputies of the Russian voivodeship, they took taxes from their brothers, to prevent many from gathering, for the sake of the suddenly arriving troops. pagans, they did not listen to their persuasion. Castr. Leop. 384 p. 2146. cf. C.San. 162 p. 567-9. ») Vol. 1. III 787 titulo sejm bi-Sunday. Universal draft not published. ") Jan Danilowicz. *) Stanisław Boniface Mniszek.

^) Stanisław Koniecpolski hetman

Crown Prince.