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In the diet at Piotrkow, y in 1562, when the on the complaint of the
King Sigismund Augustus, that by the liberality
of the Kings his predecessors the public
Treasury had been exhausted: so much, that
as to make him unable to resist the invasion
of the Tartars and Muscovites; the Senate
and then the Deputies went before the Kings
and tore the privileges granted to them
by their former Kings; and enabled the King to rea in virtue of this loyal proceeding
many of the Crown-lands or Starosties returned
to the Crown. In our times, or that is in the
last struggles to for independence of our
country, we have been witnesses of that with what who w
arduous zeal, with which our youth
gathered around the patriotic banners;
our villagers guided their plough and and
in want of other weapon armed with scythes
wishedspeeded to repel the ne usurpers. Old age liberally
gave the savings intended for support of
the its days of infirmity. The fair sex
offered their ornament on the shrine
of their expiring fatherland. The Poles
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