Topics: Acceptance of the Confederation and the Oath; Delegation to His Royal Majesty; Election of the Sejm Marshal; Great Sejm; List of those who signed the Act of the General Confederation; Notification of the Election of the Marshal; Project of the General Confederation; Speech by the Sejm Marshal;
Topics: Catholic faith; civil liberties; General Confederation; general sejm; hereditary monarch Stanisław August; increase of military contingent; national defense; security of the borders of the Commonwealth; senatorial duties; taxation enactment and implementation;
Topics: Confederation Marshals; Confederation Sejm (Parliament); dissension between the Throne and the Nation; duration of the Permanent Council; existence of the Military Department; lawmaking; Military Commission.; Military Department; military oath; Stanisław Małachowski's oath project;
Topics: Amnesty; Citizenship and Privileges; Civil and Military Status; Confederation; Despotism; Foreign Interests; Hetmans; King and Council; Military and its authority; Military Commission; Military Department; Military Discipline; Military Funds; National Defense; National Security; Parliamentary Law; Public Treasury; Republican Order; Salvation for the Homeland.;
Topics: Cooperation with the monarchy; Improvement of rights and freedoms; Increase in military personnel; Military funding; Military law and discipline; National security; State independence; State procedures; Status of civil liberties; Structure of military command;
Topics: Alternation; Bill Proposal; Contributions to State Defense; Election; Executive Power; Great Sejm; Hetmans; Lithuanian Province; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; Military Commission; Prerogatives; Senate;
Topics: army; bill approval; bill proposal; confederation; Lithuanian province; military commission; national prerogatives; Sejm alternation; Sejm Marshal; voting;
Topics: Cardinal laws and their changes; Comments on the military department; Debates on international guarantees and treaties; Discussions on the Permanent Council and its prerogatives; Election of Military Commissioners; Issues related to the freedom of the nation and the self-governance of the Republic; Proposals for negotiations with neighboring courts; Schedule and order of the Sejm sessions; Thanks to the King and ministers for actions in favor of freedom; Voting, including secret ballots and their results.;
Topics: Border issues with Turkey; Complaints and damages from Russian troops; Fundraising for the military; Military reports from Mr. Lubowidzki; Organization of sessions by the Military Commission; Presence of Russian troops in Poland; Recruitment of recruits by the Russians; Requirements for judiciary tenures of the Military Commission; Response to the Russian ambassador's note; Sejm proceedings; Transport of supplies by the Russians;
Topics: adjudication of military cases by the Military Commission; army enlargement and oversight; civil and military judiciary reforms; draft articles and amendments; execution of decrees and military assistance; Marshal of the Sejm speech; National Cavalry Rotmistrzes; supremacy of the Military Commission in civil matters;
Topics: Adoption of the project for the nomination of ambassadors to foreign courts; Assignations for embassies' expenses; Defense of the prerogatives of the Throne and the Nation; Discussion on the obligations of sending ambassadors and the nomination of individuals as ambassadors; Voting on additions to the project; Wearing of national costumes by ambassadors;
Topics: bill proposal; Cadet Corps; Constitution; Deputies; Election; examination of magistracies; Military Commission; Ministry; parliamentary debate; penalties; royal prerogatives; Sejm Court; Sejm Marshal;
Topics: constitutional article; Great Sejm (Four-Year Sejm); instigator; interpellation regarding military reports, Military Department; Military Commission; Military Commission for Judicial Affairs; military subordination and discipline; official crimes; procedural law; Sejm Court; Sejm Marshal Stanisław Małachowski; taxes and military expenditure financing;
Topics: confederated sejm; economic report of the Commonwealth's treasury; evacuation of Russian troops; financial claims of the Pinsk district against the Russian troops; King Stanisław August Poniatowski; Marshal of the Sejm; note to the Russian ambassador; oath of the army to be loyal to the Republic; proposal for a poll tax;
Topics: Calls for expedited parliamentary action on critical defense issues; Considerations regarding securing the nation's safety and strengthening the armed forces; Debates on tax projects and the funding of the military; Discussion on the form of government and the structure of the National Guard; Military oaths taken by commissioners; Objections raised by members of parliament concerning proposals and the submission of their own projects; Parliamentary declarations on Poland's dependence on external influences; Proposals for introducing taxes as a means of funding the military; Speeches concerning the abolishment of the Permanent Council and the need for a national council; Suspension of the parliamentary session;
Topics: analysis of tax proposals; considerations of the nation's future and prosperity; debate on governance measures and proposals; Great Sejm (1788-1792); importance of concord and unity in action; Kazimierz Poniatowski; Kazimierz Rzewuski; Marshal of the Sejm's speech; Michał Mniszech; military funding issues; military mobilization; preacher Zabiełło; private and public good.; public debt; royal ceremonies and honours; royal intervention; sacrificial offerings for the state; Sejm sessions; Stanisław August Poniatowski; Stanisław Małachowski; state defense; taxes; temporary and permanent taxes; the Permanent Council matter;
Topics: Army financing; Civil and ecclesiastical officials; Contributions to defense; Emphyteusis; Fees for privileges; Perpetual taxes; Procedural discussions; Provisional tax; Public revenues; Revenues from ecclesiastical properties; Revenues from offices and starosties; Sources of public income; Stamped paper; State tax; Tax system reform;
Topics: Adam Czartoryski; Antoni Suchodolski; Bishops; Deputy; Extraordinary Proceedings; Foreign Orders; Franciszek Kwilecki; Fryderyk Moszyński; Hearth Tax; Human Society; Ignacy Zakrzewski; Infant Jesus Hospital; Jan Suchorzewski; Józef Kossakowski; LVII session; Marcin Ledóchowski; Michał Walewski; monopolies; Office Clerks; Orders Fees; Percentage Tax; Piotr Ożarowski; Public Officials; Public Revenues; public support funds; Secretaries; Serafin Sokołowski; Stamped Paper Taxes; Stamps; Stanisław Kublicki; Stanisław Małachowski; Stanisław Potocki; Starosties; taxes;
Topics: Discussions; Freedom of Speech; Great Sejm; Ministry; Permanent Municipal Officials; Proposed Amendments; Revenues; Sejm Marshal Stanisław Małachowski; Stamp Act Project; Stamp Duty; Stanisław August Poniatowski;
Topics: Education and monasteries engaged in teaching; Ensuring freedom for Poles and fair tax distribution; Funding of the army and state defense; Land taxes and tithes; Protection of Church rights; Protection of property and assurance of financial security; Recognition of contributions and personal recommendations; Tax burden on the nobility; Tax system reform and charitable subsidies; Taxation of the clergy;
Topics: defense of personal freedom; defense of subjects; freedom and rights of the people; military recruitment project; punishment for abusing heirs; rebellion of the subjects; tax burdens; Treasury Commissions;
Topics: Extra sessions and judicial system in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Letters from Count Romantsov; Lithuanian Confederation; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; Military financial issues and artillery funding; Military reports and military commission; Prince Kazimierz Sapieha defends against changes in starosta election procedures; Project “Acceleration of Justice in Criminal Cases in the GDL”; Reform of starosta elections and publication of information on starostas;
Topics: Critique of the projects for the examination and trial of rebels; Defense of the rights of rotmistrz; Deliberations on establishing courts; Examination of the accused of rebellion; Importance of fulfilling parliamentary duties; Issue of extending the deadline for regiment completion; Proposals to change military attire; Report of the Deputation for Foreign Affairs; Sejm proceedings of cavalry captains (rotmistrz) and regiment chiefs; Submissions and projects of deputies; Work on laws related to public revenues;
Topics: appointment of temporary judges; case of crimen status; deputies' queries and propositions; incarcerates accused of riots; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; Note Project with amendments; project prohibiting the emigration of serfs; public fund; Russian troops on the territory of the Republic; tax projects and levy on Wyderkaf sums;
Topics: Debate on the future of taxes and education; Impact on the army and state security; International events; Legal process and expertise regarding participants of the rebellion; Limitation of the Sejm's duration; Opposition against projects; Postponement of the introduction of uniform regulations; Responses from abroad to Polish letters; Sejm Marshal Stanisław Małachowski;
Topics: Cameral rents and civic obligations; Court session periods and eviction; Duchy of Siewierz; Jesuit properties and lustrations; Oath of dissenting clergy; Percentage of Jesuit sums; Proposed taxes and contributions; Public revenues and project to increase the percentage; Royal Treasury and commissions.; Tax matters and constitutions;
Topics: Complaint about persons participating in the Sejm delegation; Discussion of tax project proposals; Discussion on Sejm judges election; Granting commissions the right to definitively resolve issues concerning the tithe; Kaduk project; Law regarding Prince Poninski; Proposal for ratification of the loan convention; Proposal to amend the Sejm journal; Sejm judges election; Taxation of His Majesty's expenses; Verdict unanimously agreed upon;
Topics: addresses by deputies; controversies regarding the verdict against Prince Poniatowski; discussions on laws and Sejm judges; foreign affairs delegation; inability to make decisions; issues with military and civil commissions; military financing issues; proposal for an adjournment of Sejm sessions; proposals for amendments to the law; Sejm session; speech by Marshal Stanisław Małachowski; taxes and property lustration;
Topics: Debate on the health of King Stanisław August Poniatowski and the need to adjourn or continue the Sejm session.; Defense of the necessity for religious tolerance and equal treatment of all denominations; Discussion on the state treasury revenue and the necessity to secure it; Drafts of resolutions and their analysis; Issue of raising taxes for dissenters; Issues concerning deputies' sejmiks (local assemblies); Matters of the starostas (administrative office) and their management; Mismanagement of forests; Payment of the Częstochowa garrison and maintenance of fortifications; Position of deputy Wojciech Świętosławski on forestry taxes; Postulate to reform law regarding sejmiks; Presentation of foreign interests by the delegation; Proposals for the inspection of church properties; Review of legislation and decisions related to taxes; Sejm session; Speech by Sejm Marshal Stanisław Małachowski; Speeches regarding complaints from the garrison and church interests; Statements by deputy Tadeusz Kościałkowski about starostas;
Topics: Adjournment of the Sejm; Civic Freedom; Foreign Pensions; Penalizing Judges; Principles of Equality before the Law; Sejm Courts; Speech by Franciszek Żeleński, Senator-Castellan from Biecz; Speech by Stanisław Kublicki, Deputy from Latvia; Speech by Walerian Strojnowski, Deputy from Volhynia; Speech of the Sejm Marshal Stanisław Małachowski;
Topics: 1789 Sejm session; deputies' speeches; Duchy of Siewierz; funds of the Krakow bishopric; marshal of the Sejm's addresses; military fund; principles of property; Sejm proceedings; Sejm sessions; tax proposals; tenth grosz tax project;
Topics: Address by the Marshal of the Sejm; Church reform and ecclesiastical hierarchy; Claims of the clergy; Defense of the freedom and independence of the Commonwealth; Episcopal excellencies and their duties; Fund for the military; Issue of income for the Bishop of Krakow; Sejm order and procedures;
Topics: Appointment of bishops and throne privileges; Consent to the appointment of bishops; Exclusion of individual deputies' projects and their motivations; Expression of outrage against foreign intrigues and honoring deserving men; Funding for the military and internal expenses; Issue of equalizing income of bishoprics in the context of country and public interest; Parliamentary session procedures and speakers' addresses; Past of the parliament and consequences of decisions from previous years; Polish-Prussian relations and state management examples; Principles of natural law and mutual respect; Role of the people and law in the context of freedom; Suspension of parliamentary sessions and proposal to extend their duration; Thanks to the king for the appointment of bishops; Triumph of enthusiasm over fear;
Topics: Adoption of the military establishment; Budget and salaries of the Crown Artillery Corps and the Corps of Engineers; Civic donations to the military; Contribution by Prince Karol Radziwiłł for an infantry regiment; Discussion on artillery and its costs; General Commissariat of the military; Great Sejm; Matters related to the Military Commission and the Treasury Commission; Non-execution of the law on arms provisioning; Project for a general commission; Provision of arms to the military by the King of Prussia; Speech by the Marshal of the Sejm; The King of Prussia's act of kindness in providing arms; Waiting for the report from the Order Commission and the deputies;
Topics: Case of Captain Napiórkowski and Lieutenant Smoleński; Clemency project for officers; Conditions of consent for parliamentary proposals; Escape of Prince Poniński; Justice versus mercy and compassion; Military Commission; Podolian voivodeship commissions; Privileges and power to pardon by highest authorities; Procedures and legal acts of the Sejm; Proposals for awards and promotions for the command at Hulajpole as well as for Messrs. Rudnicki and Paruszewski; Statement by King Stanisław August Poniatowski;
Topics: Discussions on the export of skins beyond national borders; Draft law on the export of skins abroad; Hospital fund issues; Organization of the Sejm and work of the Sejm Marshal; Project on the establishment of a Police Commission; Proposals for hospital compensations for cattle skins; Recommendations on the administration, manipulation, and execution of the leather law.; Skin stamping issues; Tax source projects; The significance of the leather industry for the country's economy;
Topics: analysis and comparison of offerings and taxes; Appointment of a deputation; deputation oath; equal taxation of voivodeships, lands, and counties; official reports and payments; penalties for non-compliance with instructions; projects for replenishing the treasury; property inspection by treasury commissions; stable and certain incomes; taxes from ecclesiastical properties and royal estates; the tenth grosz from landowners' incomes; transactions and contracts;
Topics: Attempts to reclaim the ownership of Warecki Stewardship; Avulsions; Citizen security and the “ultimarum instantiarum” decree; Decreta in Court Estates; Equivalency issues in exchanges; Exchanges without equivalency; Judiciary in 1775; Marshal of the Sejm and acceleration of proceedings; Prince Ignacy Massalski and the exchange of Mogielnica estates; Project of Deputation for distribution of grants from 1775; Review of exchange principles and royal grants; Rewards for virtue and compassion towards citizens; Royal donations and stewardships; Treasury Commissions and military assistance;
Topics: auction of the Kraków bishopric properties; consistories and seminaries; Deputacja ad Collegium Episcoporum; division of bishoprics and revenues; ecclesiastical wills; Educational Commission; Józef Ankwicz, senator-castellan of Nowy Sącz; legislative proposal concerning the clergy; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; monastic reform; negotiations with the apostolic nuncio Ferdinand Saluzzo; regulation of ecclesiastical affairs; right to episcopal nominations; rights and privileges of the clergy; secularization of church property;
Topics: Church Reform and Relations with Jews; Collection Deputation Project; Commission Appointment for the Duchy of Siewierz; Episcopal Nominations; Episcopal Revenues and Incomes; Incorporating Part of the Krakow Diocese into the Chelm Diocese; Privileges of Towns in the Duchy of Siewierz; Project on Clergy and Siewierz Nobility; Reviewing Proofs of Nobility Lineage; Taxes and Political Composition;
Topics: Ennoblements; Fiscal responsibility and transparency; Formation of Riflemen and Cossacks corps; Income of the Crown Treasury; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; Military expenditures; Military personnel numbers; Project regarding Riflemen and Cossacks; Property rights of clergy and bishoprics; Review of national treasuries;
Topics: Bosniaks serving each division general; Economic aspects of cavalry's permanent stationing on the borders; Establishment of a light militia corps; Funding and resources of domestic factories; Introduction of new taxes and state's annual expenditures; Issue of episcopal funds in Courland; Justification for the need of a shooters' corps; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; Project concerning the Ruthenian clergy and structuring of dioceses; Project regarding shooters and Cossacks; Proposal for a project on domestic factories, trade, and other economic concerns; Proposal to tax secret diplomats; Recruitment of nobility into the army;
Topics: Clergy reforms; Debates on law-making; Education and enlightenment of the clergy; Funds for the maintenance of prelates; Greek Catholic clergy; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; Protection of rights and privileges of the clergy; Sale of ecclesiastical properties in the Crown and Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Securing funds for seminaries; Seminary for Greek Catholic clergy;
Topics: appointments to offices; cardinal laws; changes in the ministries; establishment of convent pacts; internal affairs of the provinces; merits and awards for citizens; parliamentary procedures; prerogatives of the throne; religious issues and the church-state relationship;
Topics: Comments on Articles V and VI of the Cardinal Laws; Deputy Report on Rebels; Discussion of the Cardinal Laws; Duchy of Courland and Piltene District; Government Reform Issue; Internal and External Affairs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Oath of Senator Tadeusz Rostocki; Privileges of the Nobility.; Punishing and Justice for Adam Wodz and Archimandrite Sadkowski; Sejm Session;
Topics: defense of nobility's freedom; election of the king; election vs. succession; form of governance; issue of interregnum; reduction in the number of ministers; role of the Sejm in decision-making for the throne's future; state of the nation; threat of foreign intervention; universality;
Topics: bankers and their contributions to city development; civil service and city administration; committees and legislative proposals; donations to the State Treasury; industry and factories; military and recommendations for ennoblement; nobility and the rights of the nobilitated; stamp duties; trade and economic activity;
Topics: Ennoblement and indigenate; Funds and projects; Military Commission; Nobility law; Recommendations; Sejm session; Treasury Commission;
Topics: Educational Commission; Exemption from skartabellat tax; Government and magistracy composition; Necessity of rewarding merits; Noble privilege; Principles of ennoblement; Project regarding national fabrication; Proposals for the organization of the artillery and cavalry; Recommendation of meritorious individuals; Right of recommendation by magistracies; Sejm Marshal; Sejm work order; Treasury Commission;
Topics: Basilians fund; Franciszek Grocholski; Great Sejm; hospital fund; justice for citizens; Kazimierz Rzewuski; legislation; Michał Mniszech; parliament work organization; Poland-Ukraine internal reform project; Stanisław Małachowski;
Topics: Approval of the deliberating estates; Confederation of both nations and the signing of acts; Ennoblement of military persons; Fund for the education of the poor; Justification of the right to a seat in the Sejm; Legal objections against deputies; Objections and delegation of matters; Parliamentary elections and legal objections; Privileges of the noble estate; Project for facilitating the entry of deputies; Proposals concerning factories and tax reliefs; Sejm decisions and order of business; Sejm secretary and the reading of projects; Sejm session and legislative projects;
Topics: Cardinal Laws; Deputation to the Constitution; Discussion of Deputies' Proposals; Financial and Military Affairs; Foreign Pensions and Denunciations; Form of Government; Gratitude for received dignities; Intabulation of Pensions and Indemnities; Judicial Administration; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; Project ad Legem Curiatam; Project Against Foreign Pensions; Sejm session and parliamentary debates;
Topics: Decision on what to start with the Sejm's activities - Sejmiks or Cardinal Laws; Division of time for Sejm Sessions and their intended purpose; Economic affairs - setting sessions for their consideration; Oaths of deputies for the examination of constitutional issues; Opposition and its right to halt parliamentary procedures; Prepared speeches from individual deputies and senators regarding parliamentary procedures.; Project related to the organization of dicasteries (magistracies, treasury commissions); Proposals and voting on the organization of the Sejm's work; Upholding established decisions and amending Sejm decisions;
Topics: Army; Bill Project; Cardinal Laws; Chancellery; Code of Judicial Conduct (Codex Judiciarius); Commissariat; Courier from Istanbul; Education Commission; Examination of the Government Departments; Government departments (Dykasteries); Government Organization; Gratuities; Great Sejm; Jewish Affairs; Legislation Ratification; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; Modifying Laws; Reward for Mr. Brońec; Sejmik (local assemblies); Treasury; Treasury and Army Arrangements;
Topics: Ambassador's palace; Financial relations and estimates; Financing and management of the National Treasury; Investigation of the Republic's debt; Legislative proposals; Military expenditures; National lottery; Preparation for future sessions; State of parliamentary debates; State revenues and expenses;
Topics: Discussions on the number of representatives at Sejmiks; Issues of representation from various voivodeships and lands; Prayers and calls for blessings on the work of the Sejm; Proposals and amendments from Deputies; Proposals for locations and conduct of Sejmiks; Reform of the Sejm and Sejmiks; Review of reform projects; Speeches and dialogues of the Marshal and Deputies; Voting on reform projects;
Topics: Casimir the Great; Deputation for the form of government; Elections of deputies; Elections of local officials; Legislative proposals; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; Number of deputies in the Sejm; Project on regional assemblies (sejmiks); Reform proposals; Resignations from office; Scheduling of sejmiks; Sejm session; Sigismund I; Sigismund III;
Topics: Bill proposal; Bondholders and lessees; Landowners' privileges; Nobility's voting rights; Privileges of the noble estate; Protection of civil rights; Sejm reforms; Sejmik organization; Taxation decisions; Voting transparency;
Topics: Debates and proposed amendments for specific points in the legislative project of the Sejm; Discussions about the effectiveness of deputations and their mandates, the necessity to provide inventory reports.; Discussions on the provision of forage and proposals to solve the cavalry supply issue; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski calls for expedited actions; Project for the regulation of local sejmiks and the issue of persons without voting rights at sejmiks; Projects aimed at improving the efficiency of army food supply, including Kazimierz Rzewuski's proposal for a military commission; Proposals from deputies regarding the establishment of warehouses and supply of the army; Topics regarding the exclusion of certain nobility groups from voting based on their status and obligations;
Topics: Absolution of the Treasury Commission and Permanent Council; Conclusion of the session; Expenditures and debts of the Republic; Issue of payment arrears; Issue of public audience for delegates from the Courland nobility; Marshal of the Sejm and opening of the session; Offering from King Stanisław August Poniatowski; Purchase of a palace for the Moscow Ambassador; Report on the examination of the Crown Treasury Commission; Sale of the palace and public library; Treasury Commission and the Permanent Council;
Topics: compensation for military personnel during their term as deputies; issue of compensation for public officials; King Stanisław August Poniatowski; legislation related to parliamentary mandate and public service; parliamentary and official functions for individuals with six years of military service; public positions for military officers; rights and responsibilities of military deputies; Sejm capitulations; Sejm resolutions; Stanisław Małachowski, Marshal of the Sejm;
Topics: Alleviation Project; Deputies' Instructions; Emsitycznoe Sochaczew Starosty; Legis Curiate Procedure; Marshal of the Lithuanian Confederation; Ministries; Nominations for Positions; Office of the Lesser Treasurer; Public Revenues; Public Treasury; Quartering Deputation; Reduction of Ministries; Treasury Commission; Treasury Deputation; Walnińskie Starosty;
Topics: allegiance and guardianship of Gdańsk; defense of Gdańsk; district courts; international affairs; legislative project; organization of sejmiks; Piltyński county; Prussian trade; public revenues; recommendations for deputies; schedule of provincial sejmiks; Sejm reform;
Topics: constitutional projects; freedom and security of burghers; inheritance of property by citizens; jurisdiction of cities; nobility and ennoblement; privileges of the gentry; representation of cities; trade and crafts; urban legislation;
Topics: Admission of Townsmen to Public and Military Positions; Appellate Court Matters in Krakow, Lublin, Poznan, and other cities; Assessorship of Treasury and Police Commissions; Codification of Municipal Law; Constitutional Rights for Cities; Criminal Case Procedures and Processing; Diplomatic Status Granted to Townsmen; Discussions on Urban Courts in Warsaw and Sejmiks in Various Voivodeships; Dissident Issue and Religious Freedom; Ennoblement of Townsmen and the Role of Cities in State Structures; Equality of Urban Citizens and the Possibility to Hold Municipal Offices; Establishment of Appellate Courts for Cities; Jurisdiction of Urban Rights; Privileges of Citizens and Urban Commissioners; Stanisław Małachowski and his parliamentary activity; Urban Reform Project;
Topics: Constitutional Deputation Work; Defense and Need for Army Armament; Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski; National Ceremonies and Patronages; Oath on the Constitution and Signing Process; Senate and Lawmaking; Senators and Deputies' Approval of the Constitution; Speeches of King Stanisław August Poniatowski; Thanks and Accolades to the King; Work on Perfecting the Government Form;
Topics: Appellate Court; bill project; bill project for city offices; Bychowski parish church; city administration; city offices; commissioners' election; Constitutional Deputation; fiscal registry; fund for the church; Marshal of the Sejm; Police Commission; Sandomierz appellate status; Sandomierz City Memorandum; Sejm session; session limit; Treasury Commission; Universals for Towns and Small Cities;
Topics: clergy of the Duchies of Courland and Semigalia; Declaration regarding Priest Józef Kossakowski; Duchies of Courland and Semigalia; faith and clergy; grievances; King; reigning religion; resolutions; responses to grievances; Senator-Bishop of Latvia;