Urbs - Magyar várostörténeti évkönyv 3. (Budapest, 2008)

Abstracts

within the county large masses of Serbians, Germans, Slovakians did also appear. The religious diversity that followed the age of reformation did divide even more the ethnically mixed countryside population. However, during resettlement/relocation in the individual villages (practically without any exceptions), and also in some of the market towns population of identical ethnics and religion settled. At the same time in an other group of the market towns of the county (e.g. in Cegléd, Kecskemét, Óbuda, Ráckeve, Szentendre, Vác, Visegrád) the population became of mixed religion or nationality. In these market towns as regards eligibility and election for the posts followed established religious, ethnical, (or in the case of Nagykőrös) social legal status based proportions, this meant that in the main steering body of the market town it was possible to nominate members to the council according to a pre-determined quota. In Cegléd and Kecskemét there was an agreement between the Catholics and the Reformers, while in Ráckeve, Szentendre there was an agreement between the Catholics, Reformers and Orthodox, while in Óbuda, Vác, and Visegrád there was an agreement between the Hungarians and the Germans as regards the proportions of the town leadership. In Nagykőrös — where common noblemen settled in a large number -the council was elected from the noble class and the burgher class in a ratio of half-half. Although according to Law XXIII of the year 1848 any settled person could be elected without any religious difference prescribed by the law, in the towns of mixed religions Çm Cegléd, Kecskemét, Ráckeve) they continued to apply the principle of parity between the former religions, and the principle of alternation as regards the person of the officers, as they have phrased in Cegléd „in the interest of maintaining agreement, mutual trust and love that continues to be desirable, on the basis of the former customs ratified by the old practice". JUDIT PÁL The career of a town judge in the middle of the eighteenth century in Szatmárnémeti The majority of the historians emphasises the ground gaining of the land possessing common noblemen in the leadership of the counties. In order to be able to better grasp the local level exercising of power, as many case studies are needed as possible. Through whom was the power exercised, who were the mediating persons? It is always exciting to examine the areas and connection points between the different power spheres. At these interfacing points there were such person acting, whose task was mediation. For them - if they acted smartly - a rather wide scope opened in the area of