ABSTRACT

On 7 February 1715 in Warsaw, Pociej had a private meeting with Augustus. The king revealed that Denhoff, Czartoryski, and Jan Sapieha had accused Pociej of various offences in recent years. The king demanded that Pociej hand in a written assurance that he would not order the Lithuanian army to billet in the Neuburg estates or ekonomie, which Pociej categorically refused, arguing that the immunity of these lands was guaranteed by law and therefore without the Sejm's order he was not obliged to sign such a document. Data on the Lithuanian army in late 1714 and early 1715 is very scarce, but its condition had deteriorated. Peter asked Augustus to allow the Russian army to march through the Commonwealth to Pomerania because auxiliary forces had been requested by the kings of Prussia and Denmark. Sources for the sejmik deliberations before the Council of Vilnius are scarce.