In 7058 (1558) the tsar and the sovereign decreed with the metropolitan and all the boyars in the regiments that the princes and the children of the boyars with the governors should be without places, to go on all kinds of business without crowding the people, and in that patronymic there is no humiliation of them; who will henceforth be boyars or governors, and he is considered according to his patronymic. Date: 16th century.
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