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496 PATRICIA KENNEDY GRIMSTEDgranting the parish and Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Redeemerin the town of Ovruch (no. 48), but the recipient's name was not filledin. Only one of the land grants involve Left-Bank territories (no. 32)—namely, after his return to Warsaw in October 1611, Sigismund III made agrant of "the unoccupied town of Kozary, beyond the Dnieper and Desna"to the Ruthenian scribe in the Crown chancery, Florian Oleshko (Oleszko),who was associated with many other books of the Ruthenian Metrica. 32Three documents concern principally monetary matters, namely, the grantsof rents (arenda; no. 7), the right to the income from specified taxes (no.27), and a receipt of funds (no. 46).Eleven of the fifty-three documents are grants of offices. These postsinclude the treasurer of Kiev (no. 1), the starosta of Ostroh (no. 28), judgesof the land court of Bratslav (nos. 8 and 12), the clerk of the land court ofKrem"ianets' (no. 53), the parish priest of Horodyshche (no. 25), the majordomo (stol'nyk) of Bratslav (no. 13), the master of the hunt (lovchyi) ofBratslav (no. 21), and the swordbearer (mechnyk) of Volhynia (no. 22).One of the two Polish-language documents in the volume grants thebishopric of Przemysl to Oleksandr Krupets'kyi (no. II). 33 Finally, in thisconnection there is a document appointing and confirming Fedor Khodykaas mayor (voit) of Kiev (no. 49) from the list of four candidates chosen bythe citizens of the city.Two other miscellaneous documents include a mandate (plenipotentia)for the mayor of Sanok to proceed with judicial affairs in the absence ofStanislaw Mniszek, who was resigning as starosta (no. 18), and a descriptionof a parish in the town of Ovruch (no. 48). As already mentioned,there are only two legal decrees from the Sejm court in the Kornik book;both involve the adjudication of possession of villages—one in the palatinateof Volhynia (no. 41), the other in Kiev (no. 47). All of these types ofdocuments correspond closely to those found in other books of theRuthenian series and in the main Latin-language series of the CrownMetrica.In terms of the overlap in chancery personnel responsible for the Kornikvolume and its completion of a gap in the series, mention should be made ofthe chronologically contiguous books of the Ruthenian Metrica. The previousvolume "O-14" listed in the Hankiewicz Inwentarz/Synopsis 34 containsan initial section of inscriptions for the years 1603, 1604, and 1605 from the32On Oleshko, see below, fn. 39. One additional document granted permission to transfertwo Left-Bank villages in the Oster district of the Kiev palatinate (no. 29).33See fn. 18 above.34Now TsGADA, fond 389, no. 204 (MK 320; earlier signature " 14-O").