Lublin Sejmik Instruction for the Warsaw Sejm Delegates in 1570
Lublin Sejmik Instruction for the Warsaw Sejm Delegates in 1570

Summary/Abstract: A critical edition of the oldest Lublin sejmik instruction for the Warszawa Sejm delegates in 1570. The edition is based on a copy of a 16th-century manuscript made in 1943 by Stanisław Bodniak. It was stored in the Krasiński Library at that time and destroyed during World War II. The catalogue of matters mentioned in the instruction by the regional council of Lublin is wide: issues of border disputes with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, financial problems (taxes, coin and treasury reform), systemic problems (organisation of the state during the interregnum, the issue of securing the property of the royal offspring) and foreign policy. Much space has been devoted in the instruction to the legal situation of the supporters of the Reformation. The nobility of Lublin was clearly in favour of depriving Church courts of jurisdiction over laity. The instruction of the regional council of Lublin is an important source of information about the moods and opinions of the nobility in the early 1570s.

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