Let K be a field of characteristic 0, let R be a subring of K which has K as its quotient field, let G be a finite, normal extension of Kand let R' be an integral extension ring of R in G. We shall suppose that either R is finitely generated over Z (we shall refer to this as the absolute case) or R is finitely generated over a field k of characteristic 0 which is algebraically closed in K (this will be called the relative ca!e). Let n~2 be an integer. By tfi(n, R, R') we shall denote the set of all polynomials f(X)ER [X] of degree n which are monic and all of whose zeros are simple and belong to R'. By tfi(R, R') we denote the set U .P(n, R, R'). Let f3 be a fixed, n~2 non-zero element of R. We shall study the sets of polynomials f (X)E t/J(R, R')l~i