nice. We have delivered our troops to your kindnesses and loyalties, so that you, as well as the other two voivodeships, may stand by our side in a general movement, making sure that from whichever side the danger fell on our city of Lviv, we may be able to free your kindnesses and loyalties from the popular militia as before, and with our present universal unit we release this infantry in praesidio of Lviv, which you had already decreed for yourselves, held and in casu, God protect you, alicuius periculis, defended this place with your people and this is sub paenis de expeditione generali bellica sancitis. 2. And whoever, out of kindness and fidelity to your public resolution, has not yet done so in favor of war service and other reasons, we want the municipal office to take action against such a person. You will therefore be obliged to comply fully with your kindness and faithfulness to this express will of ours. On which, for better faith, we signed with our hand and pressed the crown seal. Given in Lublin on the seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty-six, the reign of our Polish, eighth, and Swedish, ninth year. John Casimir the king. Locus sigilli minoris cancellariae regni. Wojciech Gorayski, Kraków, Poznań parish priest, regent of the Crown Chancellery. Castr. Leop. 405 p. 121—723.
Przemyśl, September 12, 1656. Land of Przemyśl landowners.
1. We the councils, dignitaries, officials and knights of the Przemyśl lands of the Ruthenian Voivodeship under the patronage of J. the King. We have gathered for today's meeting in Przemyśl, we are making known to those who need to know. Because on the occasion of the congress and assembly of our deputy to Wiśnia yesterday, for some reasons, at the request of J. kr. We usually did not come up with the plans for a general uprising to encourage this public expedition, but today we have set a date for our congress to Przemyśl, and after electing a marshal, we agreed among ourselves and decided that we would like to have a resolution for all of us to be subject to it. 2. We will always be there in the hardest times of our homeland, every time J. kr. As a tribute to the homeland and its entirety, they willingly carried and donated our health, even now, to the service of J. kr. Mci p. n. m. and for the whole of the homeland there remained an invariable desire, which, despite the low devotion to submission of J. Kr. Mci p. n. m. IchMć pp. our envoys, expressed below, will tell and humbly declare to J. kr. Mci, supposing that what we understood meliori commodo et fructu reipublicae et in vim of the popular movement by our people, we decided, pro sua clementia et iusto, on us who cum dispendio not only the sumptuum of so many people but also of our health, we have already sent expeditions across the Vistula twice, because even the soldier we hired in eo supposedly destroyed us in our people more It could not be left in numero, as a disciplinatus, of all untimely times, as long as the following autumn seasons may last more easily and longer. he kindly deigned to accept respect1). 3 First, we appointed from our land for this expedition a monetary soldier with good Cossack equipment, one hundred and fifty horses; We used them to quickly enlist them and bring them to the camp and we begged them, Mr. Kacper Wojakowski, for the judge of our land, whose virtus and dexteritas has been repeatedly declared to us in such cases and is well known, for the captain and the regimentary, and this will be the quarter that God allows, starting with the amended one. To attract these mercenary people, the village of Stra-