Treasury Contracts for Sambor Crown Estate in the Second Half of 17th and 18th Centuries
Treasury Contracts for Sambor Crown Estate in the Second Half of 17th and 18th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to analyse the treasury contracts for Sambor crown estate from the 17th and 18th centuries. The focus is on the conditions under which the monarchs decided to lease or give into administration to the faithful hands („ad fideles manus”) the lands of „Samborszczyzna”. The historical sources have allowed to describe the role of the contrahents in the scope of organization and functioning of crown estate, the appointment of the members in the control and management apparatus as well as in the judicial system. Their duties to the property and the people living in it, activities aimed at guaranteeing the integrity of the crown lands and its profitability, as well as the consequences resulting from non-compliance with the conditions of the contracts were presented as well. The considerations are based mainly on the manuscripts stored in the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, supported by the documents from the Scientific Library of the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv and Central National Historical Archives in Lviv.

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