Note 10 — PART I THE ABBAYE-AUX BOIS

The Polish castellans, more especially in Lithuania, were originally invested with the supervision of the castles, from a military as well as from a judicial point of view. Subsequently they only retained their judicial functions, and they formed part of the Senate. They were divided into two classes, of which thirty-three were superior castellans and forty-nine inferior castellans. They ranked after the woivodes or palatines.