1. We, the councils, dignitaries, officials and knights of the Lviv, Przemyśl and Sanok lands of the Russian Voivodeship, gathered here in Wisno on September 11, are here to let everyone know about it. And first, pro fundnmento, assuming this congress, because without any observation so far in our homeland, our rights and freedoms have been preserved in an oppressive way, not by any envoy from J. the King. We are sent privately to the towns of our province, which, as ad praecordia pervades, must exert influence on all of us, when the vitality and foundation of our now weakened freedom are almost eliminated. First, then, having humbly complained to God regnatori regum et regnorum for such universals from our office before the whole country, and in this circle of ours, as cordially indolemus, we offer such a public demonstration that we will have such universals privately and not by an MP as important, neither to the assemblies, nor now any new laws, and to the readiness of taxes that have already been destroyed Our voivodeship cannot be enough, we want to state what it belongs to and is iuris naturalis ad defensio >em et tranąuiliitatem publicam of our voivodeship and what the necessitas temporis itself draws out, and we conclude accordingly with our laudum. 3. Common defense. And first of all, not only being careful, but also seeing ab extra from outsiders and close neighbors, as well as ab intra, the eminent dangers that may occur, especially given the impetus of the present king of the Immaculate Conception, to exhaust the free nation with indecent and unaccustomed taxes, with common consent, in accordance with the ancient laws of the Republic of Poland, an attack on our persons, but abstaining dmsione belli and with the coming together and gathering of other voivodeships, after our own voivodeship, as anyone should, we decide and pass resolutions that we want everyone to be willing to follow under the faults expressed in the law. However, which popular uprising in the Lviv region of JW IMci against the castellan of Lviv *) from W. We entrust to the power and authority of IMcia, p. the chamberlain of Lviv *), and in the Przemyśl region to WIMcia, the chamberlain of Sanok, *) of Przemyśl, together with WIMcia, the staroste of Przemyśl,6), and in the land of Sanok, to WIMcia, the lord of the castellan of Sanok, 8) together with WIMcia, the chamberlain of Sanok, and WIMcia, the staroste of Sanok, by asking them to et in defectu et absentia of which of the latter I will appoint. dniks ordine subsequentes, to in casu imminentia) cuiusvis periculi will bind IMcie pro dexteritate sua and with whom they could with IMci pp. they also communicated and endured officials and citizens with others close to them in the voivodeship. Who, having proclaimed us throughout the lands with their universals, the general assembly here in Wiśnia, for a certain day, placed us ad defensionem solam publicam, and, following the steps, God forbid, called us and set off against
') The king convened this assembly with a universal date of Lviv, August 8, Castr. San. 176 p. 1116, setting the deadline the day after the parliamentary day.») Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro. '} Stefan Bal. a) L. ingroenlis.