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	The [[Teutonic Knights\|Teutonic Order]], having incorporated Pomerelia into their monastic State, it remained so until they were defeated by Poland. According to the 1454 treaty signed by King Casimir IV, it was to enjoy complete autonomy as a dependency of the king: it had its own laws, rights, treasury, money, and army. It governed itself in Council, whose members were chosen from local lords and powerful burghers [...] In many respects, the constitutional status of Royal Prussia was similar to the Bailiwick of [[Jersey]] or the [[Isle of Man]], which are under the monarch of the United Kingdom. War broke out again and Poland imposed the [[Treaty of Thorn]] in '''1466''' following the defeat of the Order by [[Lithuania]] and [[Poland]] in several major conflicts whereby "the Poles directed their expansionism against lands populated alike by Germans and by alien Slavs who had never submitted to the yoke of Polish tyranny."<ref>Barraclough, 1949, p.255.</ref> Under this imposed treaty the Order retained a truncated rump State but as a feudal vassal of the Polish Crown, with Poland annexing all Pomerelia (despite Poland's great king Casimir III having formally renounced all claims to it by treaty), renaming it 'Royal Prussia', with [[Danzig]] becoming an autonomous Free City under a Protectorate arrangement with Poland, but remaining a member of the German [[Hanseatic League]].<ref>Marriott, M.A., Sir J. A. R., and Robertson, C.V.O., LL.D., M.A.,, Sir Charles Grant, ''The Evolution of Prussia'', Revised edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford U.K. 1946, p.56-7.</ref> With mixed success, due to continuing warfare, Poland attempted to Polonize Pomerelia by introducing peasant settlers over the next centuries.		The [[Teutonic Knights\|Teutonic Order]], having incorporated Pomerelia into their monastic State, it remained so until they were defeated by Poland. According to the 1454 treaty signed by King Casimir IV, it was to enjoy complete autonomy as a dependency of the king: it had its own laws, rights, treasury, money, and army. It governed itself in Council, whose members were chosen from local lords and powerful burghers [...] In many respects, the constitutional status of Royal Prussia was similar to the Bailiwick of [[Jersey]] or the [[Isle of Man]], which are under the monarch of the United Kingdom. War broke out again and Poland imposed the [[Treaty of Thorn]] in '''1466''' following the defeat of the Order by [[Lithuania]] and [[Poland]] in several major conflicts whereby "the Poles directed their expansionism against lands populated alike by Germans and by alien Slavs who had never submitted to the yoke of Polish tyranny."<ref>Barraclough, 1949, p.255.</ref> Under this imposed treaty the Order retained a truncated rump State but as a feudal vassal of the Polish Crown, with Poland annexing all Pomerelia (despite Poland's great king Casimir III having formally renounced all claims to it by treaty), renaming it 'Royal Prussia', with [[Danzig]] becoming an autonomous Free City under a Protectorate arrangement with Poland, but remaining a member of the German [[Hanseatic League]].<ref>Marriott, M.A., Sir J. A. R., and Robertson, C.V.O., LL.D., M.A.,, Sir Charles Grant, ''The Evolution of Prussia'', Revised edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford U.K. 1946, p.56-7.</ref> With mixed success, due to continuing warfare, Poland attempted to Polonize Pomerelia by introducing peasant settlers over the next centuries.

	In 1626 The [[Sweden\|Swedish]] King [[Gustavus Adolphus]] carried his campaigns into Pomerelia, [[Danzig]], and [[East Prussia]], in order to drive Poland away from the Baltic (notwithstanding that the Poles were not a seafaring nation). By a few decades later Poland had slipped into "the desperate and well-nigh irremediable decadence which continued unchecked for a hundred years, bringing the country to the verge of ruin...The nation lived in an anarchy thinly concealed under the forms of an elaborate republican constitution"<ref>''The Second Partition of Poland'' by Dr. Robert Howard Lord, PhD., Harvard University Press, USA & Oxford University Press, London, 1915, p.8-9.</ref><ref>''The Partitions of Poland'' by Lord Eversley, London, 1915, p.18-19.</ref> The wars against the Swedes, [[Ottoman Empire\|Turks]], and Muscovites had dealt the Polish economy its final blow. "By the 18th century the once busy and thriving towns presented a perfect picture of desolation, business confined to the operations of ~~Jewish~~ money-lenders and petty traders. Poland was destitute."<ref>Lord, 1915, p.14-15.</ref> Between 1650 and 1750 the population of Danzig alone decreased from 77,000 to 46,000.<ref>Mason, 1946, p.28.</ref>		In 1626 The [[Sweden\|Swedish]] King [[Gustavus Adolphus]] carried his campaigns into Pomerelia, [[Danzig]], and [[East Prussia]], in order to drive Poland away from the Baltic (notwithstanding that the Poles were not a seafaring nation). By a few decades later Poland had slipped into "the desperate and well-nigh irremediable decadence which continued unchecked for a hundred years, bringing the country to the verge of ruin...The nation lived in an anarchy thinly concealed under the forms of an elaborate republican constitution"<ref>''The Second Partition of Poland'' by Dr. Robert Howard Lord, PhD., Harvard University Press, USA & Oxford University Press, London, 1915, p.8-9.</ref><ref>''The Partitions of Poland'' by Lord Eversley, London, 1915, p.18-19.</ref> The wars against the Swedes, [[Ottoman Empire\|Turks]], and Muscovites had dealt the Polish economy its final blow. "By the 18th century the once busy and thriving towns presented a perfect picture of desolation, business confined to the operations of jewish money-lenders and petty traders. Poland was destitute."<ref>Lord, 1915, p.14-15.</ref> Between 1650 and 1750 the population of Danzig alone decreased from 77,000 to 46,000.<ref>Mason, 1946, p.28.</ref>

	===The Partitions===		===The Partitions===

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