ABSTRACT
Recent scholarship on the Saxon period argues that the Council of Warsaw had confirmed the return of Augustus and had legislated important fiscal decisions which, however, were rejected by the relational sejmiks. This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows that Augustus's substantial success at the 1710 Council of Warsaw was largely determined by the Lithuanians, who were the first to vote for taxes and army augmentation. While research on the functioning of the Lithuanian fiscal system in the early eighteenth century has so far been completely neglected by historians, this study demonstrates that Lithuania was able to raise over half the sum agreed in Warsaw within two years despite the extensive war damage it had experienced and despite the ravages of the plague. The conventional view that portrays middling nobility in Lithuania as subservient to the magnates is simplistic at best and in many respects erroneous.
