Permission of King Sigismund I for the provisors of the Lviv hospital to sell the village of Malechów

Sigismund, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, of all Prussia, etc., lord and heir. We make known by the tenor of this [document] to all. That, acceding to the requests of the honorable mayor and councilors of our city of Lviv, the provisors of the Holy Spirit Hospital, located within the walls of the same city, and wishing to provide for the benefit of the poor residing therein, we have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant, our royal consent to the said provisors for the sale to any nobles or dignitaries and officials of our Kingdom of the village called Malechów, belonging to the same hospital, which they cannot conveniently defend against the grievances of the neighboring nobility, on the condition that after its sale it shall be subject to land law and custom and shall be bound and compelled to bear military service, taxes, contributions, and other burdens of the Kingdom, and also that the Lviv councilors themselves, for the sum of money that shall be paid to them for this village of Malechów, shall be obliged to buy and acquire—as soon as they conveniently can—other immovable goods, land or urban, or perpetual rents or rents with the right of redemption, freer [from burdens], for the sustenance, supply, and other needs of the said poor. These goods or rents, once acquired, regardless of whether they are land or urban, we permit to be assigned to the same hospital and to ecclesiastical freedom and immunity, and we ourselves, as far as it is in our power, do assign them, decreeing that they should enjoy and possess such freedom as other ecclesiastical goods and rents, as well as the remaining goods of the same hospital, enjoy and possess. And by this letter, we release these goods to be acquired from the obligation of military service itself, from public contributions and taxes, and from any other secular burden, usually rendered in any way by the possessors of such land or urban goods. In witness whereof, our seal has been appended to this letter. Given in Piotrków at the general sejm, on the nearest Friday after the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and twenty-six, the twentieth year of our reign. [Chancery note on the left:] Peter, bishop and vice-chancellor, signed [with his own hand]. [Chancery note and relation on the right:] Relation of the Reverend father in Christ, Lord Peter, Bishop of Kraków and Vice-Chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland. [Chancery sign] [Verso:] [18th/19th c.:] Malechów, Klikolszów [?] and other goods for our hospital, year 1526 [paraph] [Another hand:] Free permission for the sale of the village of Malechów, Lviv [Archival signatures:] No Ver: 25. / Nro 25. Arca Bta [Ink stamp:] ARCHIVE OF ANCIENT RECORDS OF THE CITY OF LVIV [Seal:] [On a parchment strip, a round royal seal of Sigismund I preserved in a natural wax bowl, impressed in red wax: shield with the Eagle and royal coats of arms under a crown, surrounded by a circumferential inscription].

Sigismundus Dei gratia Rex Polonie Magnus Dux Lithvanie, Russie, totiusq[ue] Prussie etc[etera], dominus et heres. Significamus tenore presentium universis . Quia, annuentes supplicationibus Famatorum Proconsulis et Consulum civitatis nostre Leopolien[sis], hospitalis sancti Spiritus, intra muros eiusdem civitatis siti Provisorum, volentesque prospicere commoditati pauperum, in illo degentium, ipsis eius Provisoribus consensum nostrum regium, ad vendendam quibuscumque Nobilibus seu Dignitariis et officialibus Regni nostri, villam Malechow nuncupatam, ad idem Hospitale pertinentem, quam ab iniuriis Nobilium vicinorum comode defendere nequeant, dedimus et concessimus, damusque et concedimus per presentes, ea lege, ut cum fuerit vendita, juri et consuetudini terrestri subiaceat, et ad bellice expeditionis, exactionumque ac Contributionum, et alia Regni onera obeunda, obligata esse debeat et astricta, vtque ipsi Consules Leopolien[ses], pro summa pecuniarum, que pro eadem villa Malechow eis fuerit soluta, alia bona immobilia terrestria seu civilia, aut etiam census perpetuos seu in vim reemptionis, liberiora, q[uam] primum commode poterint, pro sustentatione et alimentis, alijsque necessitatibus dictorum pauperum, emere, ac comparare teneantur. Que quidem bona seu census posteaquam fuerint comparata, sive sint terrestria sive civilia eidem Hospitali, ac libertati et immunitati ecclesiastice ascribenda admittimus, et nos ipsi quantum in nobis est ascribimus, decernentes illa, debere potiri et gaudere ea libertate, qua, alia bona et census eccl[esiasti]ci, ac etiam cetera bona eiusdem hospitalis potiuntur et gaudent, Eximimusque ea ipsa bona emenda harum serie literarum a servitute ipsius bellice expeditionis, a contributionibus et exactionibus publicis, et ab omni alio onere seculari per possessores, ipsorum bonorum terrestrium vel civilium, quomodolibet prestari solito. Harum testimonio literarum quibus sigillum nostrum est appensum. Dat[um] Pyotrkowie in Conventu generali, Feria sexta proxima post Festum Conversionis sancti Pauli Apostoli. Anno domini Millesimo, quingentesimo, vigesimo sexto, Regni nostri anno vigesimo. [Nota kancelaryjna z lewej:] Petrus Ep[iscop]us et vicecancell[arius] ss[cripsit] [Nota kancelaryjna i relacja z prawej:] Relatio Reverendi in Chr[ist]o patris d[omi]ni Petri Episcopi Cracovien[sis] et Regni Polonie Vicecancellarii. [Znak kanclerski] [Verso:] [XVIII/XIX w.:] Malechow, Klikolszow [?] et alia bona ad nos Hospitale A[nn]o 1526 [parafa] [Inna ręka:] Libera venditionis Ville Malechow con[cessio] leopolien[sis] [Sygnatury archiwalne:] No Ver: 25. / Nro 25. Arca Bta [Pieczęć tuszowa:] ARCHIWUM AKT DAWNYCH MIASTA LWOWA [Pieczęć:] [Na pasku pergaminowym zachowana okrągła pieczęć koronna Zygmunta I w misie z naturalnego wosku, wyciśnięta w czerwonym wosku: tarcza z Orłem i herbami koronnymi pod koroną, otoczona napisem otokowym].