Part 40

the Republic of Poland did not bother to declare sufficienter so that IMcie pp. resident senators signed their decrees and gave part of them, of which in order to receive Mr. Crown officials were not excited, we entrusted them to Messrs. Members of Parliament a). 10. The feud of the Duchy of Courland that sine scitu et consensu ordinum is conferenced, what a harmful and contrary to the law our province sees as, we entrust it to Mr. to our deputies, that it should be stipulated in this constitution that b), as feuda no new sine scitu et consensu omnium ordinum can be granted, and these investitures should not take place without the consent of the ordinis equestris. And since such a distinction was made at the last Sejm, so that no harm was done to the law, because it was not a new feudum but an omagium, because he had a late et interruptum ius, the Duke of Courland with his son-in-law, they will try to obtain it. our envoys and seriously admonish that the Duke of Courland, at this or the next Sejm, God willing, should show his rights regarding this feudum, if the legitimum et interruptum ius has to him, because in this Republic of Poland certum non constat, and if it were to be recognized that he has a good and just right, that the approval of the whole Republic of Poland should be granted for this, and if there were any dubietas and uncertainty or loss of the former the right that this inrestitura uUatenus should not have any weight, which was allowed even by others, Messrs. Our deputies are to bring it to us at the assemblies. 11. Królewica IMci Karola petitum, the parties to the extension of the Czerwieno Abbey, in order for it to come to fruition, should strive for it. our envoys with this particular requirement, that the prince IMci exemplo other princes IMci his brothers make iuramentum fidelitatis to the king IMci. 12. Although common law requires the Parliament to start with recessions, but in such a sudden and great danger, there is little effort to prevent Mr. the deputies are to begin the Sejm with defense and to attack the enemy as quickly as possible, so that two days in each week, without mixing up any other matters, should only be devoted to defense and, if enemy troops arrive quickly, the Sejm may be shortened. 13. We see that for such a great war, God forbid, we have to fight in a hurry, foreign troops ad auxilia are needed by the Polish Republic, but that it is dangerous for every state to recruit large foreign troops, which are sometimes more terrible for their own than for the enemy, as we see in other kingdoms and nations, we commission pp. to our deputies to ask for this humility of J. kr. If he joins the recruitment, it should not be more than ten thousand, and if the subsidies were from pp. Christian ones, so that the Republic of Poland has money, not people. And these foreign troops were recruited for this war so that the regiments would have Polish nobility, so that there would be no regiments larger than six hundred men, and the pp. the obersters and other officers are to be satisfied with the cook scheduled for the assembly, and I will pay their regiment not to engage in further action, but the district to which they will assign it with the payment of wages, so that they will pay each soldier according to the report, or the one who came from among them for payment, having decided that this report should be held every month, so that all the regiments went out into the field together for an ordinary display. And since our voivodeship, through which troops must pass, needs to fear great damage in order to carry it there, they will try to our envoys, so that the troops should not be drawn along one road, but how and in which direction the banner should be drawn. And these German regiments, not as an ordinary group, but with different banners, were drawn to the camp at the latest, without taking a regiment or paying themselves any food, and where other regiments would stay and stay overnight on the property of three regiments, so that the fourth one would in no way be sub paenis of the old and new laws described, which is what the constitutions de disciplina militari are supposed to do, seeking the will of foreign troops, summarized and brought to fruition. And this is a foreign army, so that they do not dare to give either positions or accommodations without the order of their colonel, who is a lieutenant, to every wronged person ad requisitionem effective justice a) This point is missing in P., b) that P.'s room c) with P.'s son d) where O. e) enemy P. £) have P.