Szabolcs-Szatmár-Beregi levéltári évkönyv 13. (Nyíregyháza, 1999)

Rezümék (angol, német)

SUMMARIES In the first part of the 13

th Annal of the Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg County Archives Mrs. Judit Csabai, Mayoress of the City of Nyiregyhaza greets Jozsef Margocsy, Honorary Freeman of the city, on his 80

th birthday. Mrs. Erzsebet Vass talks about J6zsef Marg6csy's contribution to the successful work of the Scientific and Scholarly Public Foundation of Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg County. J6zsef Margocsy's former students devoted articles to him, Ferenc Nagy, Director of the Archives, now J6zsef Margocsy's colleague, teacher Pe"ter Hamar, and journalist Istvan Antall. In part two of the volume written in honour of Jozsef Margocsy, writings in local history, in part three theses in literary history are found (See their summaries below). At the end a bibliography helps the reader to find their way among the high number of Jozsef Margocsy's works. The book is complemented by an index of the names in the essays. Peter Nemeth EKOLCS (A Formerly Unknown Chapter of the History of Nyiregyhaza) The author analyses the property relations at the village of Ekolcs, destroyed during the Tartar Invasion (1241). The village gradually melted into Nyiregyhaza, but it is possible to identify its geographical location by identifying the landlords and the owners of land. Anonymus, the author of Gesta Hungarorum, believed that a knight of the days of the Conquest (896) was named after the village (!). We believe that this is an evidence proving that Anonymus's tale had been written earlier than it was believed — in our opinion it was written before the Tartar Invasion. Eva K. Mecsei LEGAL AND ILLEGAL PRICES AND FEES IN THE OLD TIMES (How Much Did Nyiregyhaza Pay for the Charter of Privilege of 1837?) The new settlers coming to Nyiregyhaza in the middle of the 18th century resurrected the town which became an oppidum in 1786. Nyiregyhaza bought its independence from both of its feudal landlords in the first third of the 19th century. After making the contract that transferred the rights of the landlords to the community of peasants for all times, the major task of the leadership of the town was creating and implementing rights that regulated the life of the community in a new way. The detailed and elaborate laws and regulations, ready by 1825, were only accepted by the superior authority of the provincial town, the assembly of noblemen of the county, after introducing modifications that ensured the supervision of the county nobility over the affairs of the town. In the time of the landlords the town had enjoyed a high degree of autonomy, after which the community found the supervision of the