ABSTRACT
The Torun amnesty of 1709 granted the Sapiehas their offices and safe possession of their estates; the Sandomierz confederates were reluctant to accept these points, however. The Lithuanian provincial sessions during the Council of Warsaw were stormy. Although the sejmik instructions, with the exception of Mscislaw whose delegates were members of the Wollowicz and Kociell families, were not hostile to the Sapiehas, some delegates demanded that the Sapiehas be placed under observation. The decisions on paper seemed favourable, but Karol Radziwill and Ludwik Pociej launched new attacks on the Sapiehas. The 1703 Sejm levied an additional 300,000 zloties subsidy for the Lithuanian army on the Neuburg estates. Niezabitowski began to take back some of the seized estates into his possession, but Radziwill's protection was not quite what had been expected. Pociej and Radziwill were not the only ones who took advantage of the absence of the Sapiehas from Lithuania.
