A Pest Megyei Levéltár. Levéltárismertető (Budapest, 2004)

From the history of Pest County

C* pn£ nta ( Island Lieutenancy's Estate. The eponym of the county was the town of Pest, the settlement used to be inhabited by Muslim tradesmen and Slavonic peoples, where also a larger population of German inhabitants had settled before the Tartar invasion. The "Pest County" name first appeared in 1255. The first general judges showed up in 1322. The King did not appoint a Lieutenant in this county cither. The County Lawcourt was controlled by the Vice-Palatine till 1342, till it resided in Buda. Following this time the county had to arrange its cases on its own. The Chief Town of the county was Üllő írom the 1450s to the times being under Turkish occupation. The special state of the two counties, not having Lieutenants in fact, was confirmed by new Laws in 1492 and 1495. Pest and Pilis Counties had lived their lives separately in the centuries before Turkish occupation, the only link between them being when the king or the palatine of the two bordering counties went out in the country to the central Lawcourt to administer justice. These joint meetings were held every 5-6 years in the 14

lh century and the last one was held in 1476 in the Field of Rákos. This "Lieutenant-free state" of the two counties became attractive to others too, and therefore the landowners of the 44 I. Mátyáskirály kiváltságlevele Jena Péternek és Lázárnak révlétesítéséről Privilegienwkunde des Königs Mátyási, fiir Péter und lÁzár Jeriei über die Errichtung einer Fahre Privilege letter given to Péter and Lázár Jenéi by king Matthias I to establish a ferry