Piotr Nater
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The Lithuanian Senate, consisting of bishops, veivots, palatines, and the great crown dignitaries, was merged with that of Poland.
Beyond this the Union did not go.
In what concerned military matters, administration and justice, the two countries remained distinct, and
There were as many Lithuanian dignitaries as there were Polish.
If we consider that these high officials and commanders, though appointed by the king, were appointed for life and were irremovable, that they enjoyed, therefore, complete independence within their sphere, and, once appointed, paid absolutely no attention to the crown, it will be seen that out of the new order of things there must result in
What availed resolutions in common if afterwards the Lithuanian High Treasurer or the Lithuanian commander in chief had the power to pursue an entirely different course from that of his Polish colleague.
It was from a sense of this that attempts were made at the Lublin Diet to strengthen Poland proper, which was vastly smaller than the Grand Principality by separating from this latter the provinces of Voina and Podolia and adding them to the crown.
At any rate, by the Lublin Union, Zigismund had secured external unity for his kingdom, and thereby rendered Poland an immense service.
One cannot fairly deny him the glory of a brilliant and useful reign, marked, moreover, by a considerable growth of learning and letters, and forming a striking contrast to the disastrous times that followed.
He died on july fourteenth, fifteen seventy two, and with him passed away the prosperity which Poland owed to the Jageron dynasty.
The unfortunate country fell a prey to the disorders and uncertainties of an elective monarchy.
A special meeting of the diet was convoked to prepare for an election.
The Protestant nobility attended it with all the influence of its numbers, its wealth, and the unity that the Sandomir Agreement had secured.
It was through its agency that a law was passed in fifteen seventy three that no one should be either harmed or slighted on account of his religion.
The dissidents, to use the words,
the official Latin designation were to be put in every respect on a par with the Catholics.
This was the first formal, authoritative recognition of the equality of the different confessions in Poland, the first legal breach in the religious unity of the realm.
But the Catholics had not remained idle.
Bishop Hosius of Ermeland, clad with increased authority on account of his efficient services as one of the presidents of the Council of Trent, and adorned with the dignity of cardinal, had in fifteen sixty five brought Jesuits into Poland.
They began at once to work in their energetic yet prudent manner.
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