Income of starostwa in Greater Poland and Royal Prussia before and after the Swedish “deluge”

Abstract

The article presents the volume and structure of revenue in selected starostwa in Greater Poland and Royal Prussia in three chronological sections. Revenues were divided into five main categories: (1) from manorial production; (2) from the village industrial-manufacturing economy and fishing; (3) from peasant farms burdens; (4) from towns; and (5) from others. The analysis results show a decline in all types of income in the 1720s and a further regression after the wars of the mid-century. In the first half of the seventeenth century, the revenue structure was dominated by revenues from the manor economy, while in 1659–1665, the part of revenues received from royal towns increased.