Nyakas Miklós: A hajdúvárosok országgyűlési képviseleti jogának elnyerése 1790-1791 / Hajdúsági Közlemények 17. (Hajdúböszörmény, 1992)

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their opinion. It is even more grave because „nobiliary freedom cannot be abolished even by legislature..., consequently we are still to be considered as people with nobiliary privileges." Therefore they asked the Diet „to provide them the country's hearty welcome among the honourable delegates" and that „after the honourable counties they should also get seats and votes from the Glorious Homeland." Naturally no mention was made here about the irredemptuses just like in the case of the Heyduck towns about those who had no possession of Heyduck plot. In the first phase of the Diet there was some tension between the delegates and their delegators as other delegates were sent after them to control them, which obviously indicated the lack of trust. The charge and counter-charge of both sides was that the money of the noble towns was wasted superfluously.The two delegates in their responsive letter emphasized how expensive their subsistence was and they especially stressed how much it cost them to get accomodation. Both of them, incidentally, are wearing down the third pair of boots because of having to walk a lot, and if they take hackney-coaches, it is not for comfort, but only because the other delegates they were to visit stayed in different parts of the town. Their clothes are shabby, which is not quite decent for appearing at the coronation. And anyway - they argued - the Jazygians and Cumanians do not begrudge their delegates a separate coach. What is more, the other day even the delegates from the small Heyduck towns of Bihar dashed past them in a coach and also the deputes from „Derecske and Kaba told them reproachingly that they tramp the Buda Hills on foot." There were two more charges against which they had to defend themselves. One of them was that their activity was favourable for the small former Heyduck towns of Bihar too who „wish to call themselves Heyducks". In answer to this charge the deputes explained that they did not keep in touch with them at all because they had never been included in the Charter, nothing is written about them in the country's legislature: „Because Derecske is quite different different from Szoboszló and others." The second charge was that they used the word „residentes" and it proved that they wanted to acquire privileges for all the inhabitants of the Heyduck towns. In answer to this they said that „we are deputes for nobody else but the Scssionatus Heyducks." Therefore they did not intend to do anything for the plotless inhabitants. And they remarked with indirect reproach that those arguing from home have imperfect knowledge of Latin as they are not familiar with the right meaning of „residentes". It can only mean plotless inhabitants, while the word „degentes" has the meaning of „sessionatus", i.e. inhabitants who possess plot. Finally we must clear up a misunderstanding, namely the question of the diploma issued by the king at his coronation. The Estates will insist on the validity of Károly Ill's diploma, which implies the obligation of taxation and the deputes will vote against it. They said that accepting the diploma by them would not depend on common bearing of burdens, but on the succcess of their enedeavours to restore the earlier state of affairs when the Heyduck towns had not been submitted to taxation by the state. And, anyway, the question of taxation will be raised not in the diploma, so the worries at home are out of time. Following out the spirit of the above views the representatives of the Heyduck Region sent the two deputes instructions which resulted in new complications. Owing to the tone and wording of the instructions they did not dare to read them out in the session of Trans-Tisza area but only gave them to their supporters. After the supporters had read them giving them from hand to hand, sub-prefect MARLÁSI calling JABLONCZAY to him told him not to read it out because there would be such a noise that no one would be able to put things right. László LÓNYAI and others were also shaking their heads. And who exactly were the supporters who helped the Heyduck towns to a certain extent? First of all the two Tisza and two Transdanubian districts were more and more turning against them. I have already mentioned Count FEKETE and Joseph VAY. We are sure that besides them the claims of the Heyduck towns were supported by István VAY, Lajos DOMOKOS, the sub-prefect of Bihar, then by László LÓNYAI, Lajos POGÁNY, Count Mihály SZTÁRAY, the MÁRIÁSSes and the LUBYs from Szatmár County. Their claims were not supported by the sub-prefect of Szepes County and by the delegates from Temes and Csongrád County lodged 95