Let us take a closer look at the numbers of the assemblies from this second period and we will see the reliability of the above conclusions. The highest figures for the number of sejmiks fall on the years of the inundation of the sejmik by Swedes, Cossacks, Tatars, and Transylvanians in two years: 165G and 1657. In the first of these years, we note 10 sejmiks and in the second 13. Of course, there was no sejm in these years, there is not even a general sejmik in Wiśnia, only particular sejmiks are held in three centers. landowners, in Lviv, Przemyśl and Sanok. Thus, in 1656, four assemblies were held in Lviv, two in Sanok, and four in Przemyśl; in 1657, 6 assemblies in Lviv, 2 in Sanok, and 5 assemblies in Przemyśl. It could be safely said that the particular assembly in this eastern voivodeship replaced the parliament in those years. Since there were no conscription resolutions, and because even in one place, such as Wiśnia, due to the flooding of other parts of the voivodeship by the enemy, it was impossible to gather the nobility for a meeting, each land had to pass conscription separately in order to meet the obligation to defend and save the homeland at the most critical moment. Let us take another year, 1651; there is no sejm there, but we have eight sejmik meetings, of which three sejmiks in Wiśnia, and five outside it: in Lviv, Przemyśl and Sanok. Similarly, in 1660 there was no sejm, but we had four sejmik laudas, two in Wiśnia and two in other places. And in the years 1663-1666 we do not have any sejm constitution for the interrupted sejms, but in 1663 we note seven sejmik resolutions, in 1664 two, in 1665 also two, and in 1666 three sejmik resolutions, almost all of them adopted in Wiśnia. The same can be said about the years 1671 and 1672. The lack of sejm resolutions was replaced by sejmik lauds at that time, and so in 1071 we had six, in 1672 as many as nine resolutions, of the latter four in Wiśnia and five in other places.
It is easy to understand that, while in the first period the interregnum facilitated the development of the sejmik life, in the present period the war was a circumstance conducive to its growth; in the years of the greatest wars we record the highest number of assemblies meetings, several of which, like in 1672, were held in the camp. The growth of sejmiks in this second period compared to the first period can be graphically presented in the course of successive years, separating them in the scale with vertical lines, and the number of sejmiks held each year, marked with horizontal lines. The first figure (see page XIII) shows us a longer period of the first increase in the life of sejmiks in the years 1573-1647; the second figure is a shorter period of time from 1648 to 1673. In the second figure, in relation to the first, we can read, as if mechanically, a great increase in the life of the sejmiks, showing in 1657 a significant number of 13 sejmiks and not a single year in which there were not at least two sejmiks. We can also visually see, both in the first and second figures, great differences in the number of sejmiks occurring in some immediately following years; some abnormal expansion and decline in the number of assemblies, as seen
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in the first figure in the years 1575 and 1676, then in the years 1586 and 1587, 1605 and 1607, and especially between the latter year and 1634. We see an even greater breakdown of the growth lines in the second period, in the years 1650 and 1651, then 1657 and 1658, or 16G9 and 1670. These lines with their breakdowns they indicate the nervous life of society, whose organs do not know any rest, but still nervously exert all their strength to work, and then there is again a temporary drop in effort, and immediately afterwards a huge lifting up to new works and new tasks. In the first period, the stagnations last for years, in the second there is almost no stagnation, but there are more frequent declines and increases in the annual number of assemblies, which indicates that these social efforts have increased in intensity during this period. It would be unnecessary to add that not only in the war efforts, but also in the numbers of taxes paid by the lands in the latter period in individual years, the life of these strenuous, nervous societies can be deciphered just as well as we see it graphically represented in both figures, which show us the growth of the dietitian life in the two periods. The conclusions regarding the growth of the sejmik life will not change even if we take into account the number of two other sejmiks from the Ruthenian Voivodeship, i.e. the Chełm sejmik and the Galician sejmik. And those in the second period, namely in 1653, 1658, 1659, 1667 and 1668 and finally in 1671, show the highest number of sejmiks held, which the lands never reached in the first period.