An inspection of the royal treasury commission in the Sambor Crown Land in 1698 Cover Image

Rewizja komisji skarbowej w ekonomii samborskiej w 1698 roku
An inspection of the royal treasury commission in the Sambor Crown Land in 1698

Author(s): Grzegorz Wrona
Subject(s): History, Economic history, Modern Age, 17th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: history of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the end of the 17th century; economic history; Sambor Crown estate; Crown lands; treasury commission; Sambor court books; treasury contracts;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the inspection made by the royal treasury commission of the Sambor Crown estates in 1698. It describes the lustration team in terms of its composition, reasons for its appointment, and tasks of the auditors, which makes it possible to show their role in the system of managing property and income of the Crown lands in Samborszczyzna. An analysis of the outputs of the commissioners’ activities is to show the financial and economic condition of economic lands at the end of the seventeenth century, the functioning of the justice system and the situation of urban and rural residents in the light of the supplications they brought in. The analysis included also figures of economic administrators and their manner of managing of the Crown property, and reveals that they abused and neglected their duties set out in treasury contracts; there are also recommendations of commissioners to improve the administration of Sambor goods and increase their profi tability presented.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 79
  • Page Range: 7-37
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Polish