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490 PATRICIA KENNEDY GRIMSTEDMetrica, pertaining as it did to lands then occupied by Prussia, was subsequentlyreturned to Warsaw, but because the Ruthenian series, as part of alarge collection of archival records from the Commonwealth (whichincluded other parts of the Crown Metrica and the similar record booksfrom the royal chancery of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, known as theLithuanian Metrica), pertained specifically to Ukrainian lands then part ofthe Russian Empire, they were retained in St. Petersburg. Accordingly, theRuthenian series was listed in the 1887 published inventory covering thelarger collection of which these volumes then formed a part—under themisleading title "Lithuanian Metrica." 10 Although the other remainingparts of the Crown Metrica were subsequently returned to Warsaw, theRuthenian series has been kept in Moscow since 1888, initially in the prerevolutionaryMoscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice (MAMIu) andnow in TsGADA. They are now part of the fond of the Lithuanian Metricain TsGADA, where the 1887 inventory is still used as its official inventory.''The record books involved are technically a subseries of the CrownMetrica, which contains official documents pertaining to Ukrainian landsissued by the Crown chancery between the years 1569 and 1673. In Polishscholarship the series is cited within the Crown Metrica as the Ruthenian orVolhynian Metrica {Metryka Ruska or Metryka Wolynska). 12 Technicallythe volumes are Crown chancery inscription books, in which are recordedvarious charters, privileges, bequests, and other official documents issuedby the main Crown chancery, and, in some books, by the vice chancery(sometimes called the minor chancery), pertaining to the Crown palatinatesof Volhynia, Bratslav, Kiev, and (after 1635) Chernihiv. The books alsocontain copies of legal decrees from the Sejm (Diet) court, although for afew periods these decrees form separate books in the series, and they oftenform separate fascicles within books. The series starts appropriately at thetime when these palatinates came under Crown jurisdiction as a result of theUnion of Lublin in 1569.Anastasevych in 1817. The Ruthenian section in question was listed as A-1-304.A—A-l-332.S.B.10See the 1887 inventory compiled by Ptaszycki, pp. 108-111 (nos. I.A-1 -32; nos. 31 and33 in that section, which are not part of the series, were later returned to Warsaw)." See the discussion of the Crown Ruthenian series in my introduction to The "LithuanianMetrica" in Moscow and Warsaw, pp. 31-33. An appendix provides a chart of the CrownMetrica Ruthenian series: ibid., appendix 7, pp. A-103-A-105.12See, for example, lnwentarz Metryki Koronnej, pp. 229 - 30.