Koszty podróży i pobytu w Warszawie toruńskich deputowanych na sejm 1767 roku

• Authors: Jerzy Dygdała

Title variants

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THE COSTS OF TRAVELLING AND STAYING IN WARSAW INCURRED BY TORUŃ DEPUTIES TO THE PARLIAMENT IN 1767

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The article is based on letters and accounts of the Toruń deputies to the Polish parlament (sejm), regarding their trip to and two-months stay in Warsaw, preserved in the State Archive in Toruń. The deputies – Christian Klosmann, the mayor of Toruń, Georg Adam Reymer, a councillor, and Gottlob Fendler, a secretary – stayed in Leszno (a suburb of Warsaw) in a little manor house rented for 1080 Polish florins. Their expenses connected with the journey and the stay in Warsaw amounted to 10 589.12 Polish zloties. 19.8% of that sum was spent of food. The deputies ate at the neighbouring manor house, paying 144 zloties per week. In addition, they bought a lot of wine (69 bottles for 519 zloties). Coffee and beer were bought less frequently, and milk was supplied once a week. There are five records of purchasing parmesan cheese and one record of purchasing lemons. 15.8% of the total were expenses for renting, heating and lighting the house. 13.3% was spent on wages for three servants and payment for various services (e.g. of the launder, house cleaner and whig-maker). 12.5% of the sum were travelling expenses. The total sum spent for sending the deputies to the 1767 sejm was only a tiny fraction (2.4%) of the income of the town of Toruń, which at that time amounted to 320 000 Polish zlotys.

Keywords

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TRAVEL; ACCOUNTS; WRITTEN SOURCES

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 443-456

Contributors

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Jerzy Dygdała

• Instytut Historii PAN im. Tadeusza Manteuffla, Rynek Starego Miasta 29/31, 00-272 Warszawa