Buda expugnata 1686. Europa et Hungaria 1683-1718 - A török kiűzésének hazai levéltári forrásai (Budapest, 1987)

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(at that time and later) by vis major or the consequences of careless handling, etc. There are counties in which the pre-1918 archive material remained in the area of a neighbouring state after the 1920 peace treaty. The most important part of the actual county administrative material preserved in the county archives is the docuemnts of the assemblies. The assembly was the most important organ of county self-government; the delegates for parliament were elected here, their assignments were defined in the so -called instructions, and the officials of the municipal authorities were also elected here. Judgement was also a function of the assembly in cases which belonged to its sphere of legal authority. Decrees, which arrived to the county from the national and court government authorities, were publicized here, together with the petitions which arrived from the military authorities during the liberation war, and this was the place where the concerned measures were taken; the tax (in cash or kind) to be paid by the county was imposed. In archives with richer material, the documents of assessment were separately preserved. The legal position of towns that set up the municipal archives in the framework of county archives, was varied in that period, they included free royal towns, towns which belonged to the treasury, episcopal towns and market towns owned by private landlords. Their administration and the documents they accumulated, were adjusted to this. As Hungary was hardly, and the estate organisation almost inactive in the war (and Transylvania manoeuvred between dependence on the Turks, neutrality and Habsburg orientation - as far as it had the opportunity) the presented source material primarily accounts for the burdens of the war on the country: food or cash (sometimes to a shocking extent) had to be provided for the armies (either to the Turks marching against Vienna or holding parts of the country in their hands, and Thököly — who was allied with the Turks, or to the troops of the anti-Turk league), accommodation and transport had to be provided, measures had to be taken to smooth over frictions between the military and the civil population, the ransoming of Turkish prisoners had to be arranged, and law and order had to be consolidated. The other essential content of the source material is connected with the launching of new life on the liberated areas (primarily in the municipal and Hungarian chancellory material): connected with the re -regulation of the legal and administrative conditions of their lives. In the preparation of the review, the resource representation method was used as a basis, which developed in the past decades in Hungarian archives (primarily in the preparation of the so-called informative inventories of the Hungarian National Archives): 1. where the sphere of authority and operation of an authority or other body -could be defined, it representation already provides the main features of the source material. 2. The reference service of materials of collection character has to be classified. In this way, we did not become lost in the representation of individual documents (however attractive the opportunity would have been), but comprehensively presented the character of the source material. As an appendix, excerpts are added to the volume from period sources preserved in Hungarian archives; these primarily illustrate the country's considerable participation in the burdens of the liberation. 398