Circle of Knights

So the council of knighthood, under arms and in the field, was called not a seym, but a “church wheel.” Frycz Modrzewski writes: “The senatorial ellipse is the highest Rzplitej council, a common good guardian.” For all meeting, the old Slavic custom, Poles stood or sat by a wheel, hence the name of the ellipse went. At the time of the Parliamentary Chamber, it was called a “scene circle” and especially an election council, where a seat was fenced for the wheel next to “the senator's staff.” During the wars, the hetmans frequently convened a “general circle” from colonels and captains, for deliberation on the war plan, or in administrative and judicial matters. Like seymites on the ground, so were knightly wheels after banners, to which the comrades came to the banners for the deliberation on interior matters, e.g. the “Born Service”, the stroke of 1 of the comrades who had suffered from an accident. On specified wheels, deputies were elected to the taxation and military tribunal in Radom and Vilnius, to collect the chief and the hyberna, to study on the actions, to pay the governor's wage to the comrades, to choice the comrades at the parking places, and to yet to be banqueted at the sound of the salvos. The banner ellipse gives details of Kitovich.