Confirmation by Archbishop Bernard Wilczek of the Lviv Chapter's privilege for Canon Mikołaj Poniatowski

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, AMEN. Since fragile human memory, due to insidious mortality, easily falls into oblivion if it is not strengthened by the defense of writing. Therefore We, Bernard, by the grace of God Archbishop of the holy metropolitan Church of Lviv, for the eternal remembrance of the matter. We announce by the power of this letter to all and each one individually, present and future, who shall receive knowledge of this letter, how the venerable Mr. Mikołaj Poniatowski, Canon of Lviv and parish priest in Waśniany, having appeared before our face, presented a certain privilege regarding the establishment and fulfillment of an anniversary for the soul of the same Mr. Poniatowski, Canon, granted to him by the venerable gentlemen canons and the entire Lviv chapter, under the seal of the same Lviv chapter suspended below in yellowish wax of a bluish hue, in every respect and in everything intact, whole [...], and when all and individual [persons] who recognize that this concerns their interest were summoned and a term was set for this day, accusing of disobedience the others who did not appear, he requested that due to the disobedience of the said summoned [persons], the mentioned privilege in its entirety, in all its points, clauses, conditions, and articles, be ratified, approved, confirmed, and recognized by us as having the force of perpetual durability. The literal wording of which privilege follows and is as follows: WE, Bernardyn Wilczek custodian, Master Andrzej Bełżyc, Stanisław Mliczka professor of holy theology, doctor in spiritual matters and general official, Adam Mojtkowski provost, Master Sebastian of Lviv and Marcin of Karów doctor of decrees, canons and the entire chapter of the holy metropolitan Church of Lviv. We announce by the power of this letter to all and each one individually, to whom it pertains, present and future, who shall receive knowledge of this letter. That having regard for the benefits with which the venerable Mr. Mikołaj Poniatowski, Canon of Lviv and our dearest brother, diligently and usefully cared for and sought after certain matters and the benefit of our chapter. And that our house, located at the back of our common Lviv chapter buildings, situated on Szkolna Street, between the house of the once famous Wawrzyniec Mleczka and the brewery of Habichowa from the Lviv properties, he erected in masonry at no small and great personal expense and provided with magnificent vaults, bringing to completion the entire structure and construction of that house, We, wishing to remember this benefit, so that his effort and labors contributed for the benefit of our chapter affairs do not fade from the memory of us and our successors, and so that our gratitude through us and our successors, future Lviv canons, may constantly accompany him, we have given and granted, and we give to the same the possession and use of the said house, as mentioned above built by him, only for the time of his life, and in the peaceful use and possession of the same house without any rent or use within its boundaries under any sophisticated pretext we will not disturb him, indeed, we have promised and promise to protect and defend him against all attacks, if any such should arise due to the mentioned house [...]. After the departure or death of the mentioned gentleman, the possession shall by full right pass and fall to us and our successors. However, having made such eternal memory, we all and our successor canons in the same [Church] commit ourselves hereby for the rescue of the salvation of the soul of the same venerable Mr. Mikołaj Poniatowski, Canon, when by the Lord's will he departs from this world, every returning year, at the same time in which the death occurred, to perform in the metropolitan church of Lviv twenty masses, that is, vigils with nine readings for the dead, and on the morrow immediately after them to sing a mass and seven [others]. Furthermore, each of our brother canons, present and at that time being, personally or through another priest belonging to the congregation, similarly every year at that time, in the same week in which the anniversary will be performed, shall be obliged and compelled to read and perform a mass, that is, a requiem, for his soul spiritually. In testimony of which our chapter seal has been suspended below. Given in Lviv, on Friday the day after Reminiscere Sunday, at the general chapter held at the appointed time, in the Year of the Lord one thousand five hundred and thirty-eight. After the reading of that letter of the said privilege, the mentioned man Mr. Mikołaj Poniatowski, Canon of Lviv, according to the requirement of today's term, accusing of disobedience those summoned and not appearing, who think that it concerns them, requested and with due diligence demanded that we deign to ratify, strengthen, and confirm that said privilege of his. We, since no one objected, and the ruling of the gentlemen canons and the entire Lviv chapter coincided with the consent and voluntary submission to the fulfillment of everything regarding the mentioned anniversary, deemed it appropriate to ratify and confirm that privilege by our ordinary authority, and in the name of God we hereby approve, ratify, strengthen, and confirm it in all and individual points, clauses, articles, and conditions, deciding that the obligation accepted in this way for the salvation of the soul by the said Lviv gentlemen canons and their successors should be perpetually fulfilled and have such force of durability. In faith and testimony of all and individual these things, we ordered our notary to draw up this public letter and commanded it to be written before us, and by the suspension of our seal we ordered and caused it to be strengthened. Done and given in Lviv, in the curia and house of our residence, in the Year of the Lord one thousand five hundred and thirty-eight, of the eleventh indiction, during the pontificate of the most holy father and our lord in Christ, Lord Paul by divine providence Pope the Third, in the fourth year of his pontificate, on the twenty-fourth day of the month of May. In the presence of the noble Stanisław Łaski, Jan Hamerski, Walenty Janiszewski, Jan Nigoszowski, and other members of our curia, witnesses called and requested for the above. [Notarial note and notary's sign:] And I Stanisław [...] public notary by apostolic authority [...] [Under the notary's sign, motto:] Remember the last things [Seal:] [Round seal of Archbishop Bernard Wilczek with the Poraj coat of arms in the border with an inscription, in a wax bowl, suspended on a yellow-blue silk cord] [Verso:] Anniversary of the venerable Mr. Mikołaj Poniatowski, Canon of Lviv 1538 / Privilege for the anniversary of Mikołaj Poniatowski [...] / Under the letter C C

IN NOMINE DOMINI AMEN. Quoniam fragilis hominum memoria mortalitas subrepta facilius in oblivionem deducitur nisi litterarum munimento fuerit roborata. Proinde Nos Bernardinus de Grathia Sancte Ecclesie Metropolitane Leopolien[sis] Archiepiscopus ad future rei memoriam. Significamus tenore presentiu[m] universis et singulis presentibus et futuris presentiu[m] noticiam habituris Quomodo in nostra constitutus presentia Venerabilis dominus Nicolaus Ponyathowsky Canonicus Leopolien[sis] et plebanus in Vasnyany, certum privilegium super continuationem et adimpletionem Anniversarij pro anima ipsius domini Ponyathowsky Canoni[ci] per Venerabiles dominos Canonicos totumque Capitulum Leopolien[se] sibi concessum sub sigillo eiusdem Capituli Leopolien[sis] in cera silacea coloris glauci subappens[o] exhibuit in omnibus et per omnia sanum salvum [...] ceterosque omnes et singulos quibusvis interesse putant Decretam et concessa in terminoque ad diem hodierna prefiniti contumacia ceterorumque non comparentiu[m] accusata petiit in eorundem contumacia citatorum, dictum suum privilegium in omnibus suis punctis, clausulis, conditionibus et articulis per nos ratificari, approbari, confirmari et robur perpetue firmitatis habere decerni. Cuius tenor de verbo ad verbum sequitur et est talis. NOS Bernardinus Vylczek Custos, Magister Andreas Belzicz, Stanislaus Mliczka Sacre Theologie professor, Doctoratus in Spiritualibus et Officialis generalis, Adam Moytkowsky Prepositus, Magister Sebastianus de Leopoli, et Martinus de Carow decretorum Doctor Canonici totumque Capitulum Sancte Ecclesie Metropolitane Leopolien[sis] Significamus tenore presentium Vniversis et singulis quibus expedit presentibus et futuris, presentium notitiam habituris. Quia haben[tes] in prospectu benefacta quibus Venerabilis dominus Nicolaus Ponyathowsky Canonicus Leopolien[sis] etque Confrater noster charissimus de negotio certo et comodo nostro Capitulari diligenter et vtiliter curavit studuit. Domumque nostram in postico edium nostrarum communiu[m] capitularium Leopoli[ensium] sitam, et in platea Scholastica interpositione domus famati olim Laurentij Mleczko et brasatrina Habichowa Curiu[m] Leopolien[sium] locatam, multis magnisq[ue] impensis eius proprijs, muro erigere testudinibusque in eadem satis egregiis construere, ac omnem structuram et fabricam eiusdem domus in effectum deducere curavit, sumus nos beneficij memores esse volen[tes] ne hoc ipsius studium et opera in commodum rei Capitularis nostre collata e memoria nostra et successorum nostrorum intercidat, et recompensa gratitudinis nostre per nos et successores nostros futuris Canonicos Leopolien[ses], perpetuo in eum deinceps sequetur. Sibi possessionem et usufructum eiusdem domus per eum ut prefertur constructe ad tempora vite sue duntaxat Dedimus et contulimus, damusque in ipsius domus usu et pacifica possessione sine alicuius tam locandi sine per fines ipsius utendo, nullo colore exquisito inquietabimus, immo cum tueri et defendere ab omni impetitione si quam forte predicte domus occasione subierit spopondimus et pollicemur [...] Post cuius decessum seu mortem prenominati domini possessio ad nos et Successores nostros pleno Jure devolvetur et succedet. Ita tamen facta perpetuam memoriam Nos omnes et successores nostri Canonici in ead[em] obligamus per presentes in remedium Salutis anime eiusdem venerabilis domini Nicolai Ponyathowsky Canonici, postquam Domino volente, ex hac luce decesserit Anniversarium singulis annis recurrentibus, quo ipso tempore decessus contigerit in Ecclesia Metropolitana Leopolien[si] per viginti missas facere, hoc est vigilias Novem lectionu[m] pro deffunctis in crastino vero mediate sequenti Missam septenque decantare. Et insuper vnusquisq[ue] fratrum nostrorum Canonicorum presentibus et pro tempore existentium per se vel alium gremio subordinatum presbiterum, similiter singulis annis sub hijs temporibus in eadem septimana qua anniversarium decantabitur, Missam als Requiem pro eiusdem anima spiritualiter legere et adimplere tenebitur et erit astrictus. In cuius rei testimonium Sigillum nostrum Capitualare petibus est subappensum. Datum Leopoli feria sexta in crastino dominice Reminiscere in Capitulo generali pro tempore celebrato Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo tricesimo octavo. Post qua[rum]quidem Litteraru[m] privilegij predicti lectionem Memoratus viris dominus Nicolaus ponyathowsky Canonicus Leopolien[sis] iuxta exigentia[m] termini hodierni, accusando sua interesse putantium citatorum non comparentium contumacia, petiit et debita cum instantia postulavit, ipsum prefatum suum privilegij ratificare, roborare, et confirmare dignaremur. Nos vero nemine contradicente et judicium Dominorum Canonicorum et totius Capituli Leopolien[sis] consensu et spontanea submissione ad omnia predicti Anniversarij implenda accedente. Eosipsum privilegium auctoritate nostra ordinaria duximus ratificandi et confirmandi ac in dei nomine per presentes in omnibus et singulis punctis, clausulis, articulis et conditionibus, approbamus, ratificamus, roboramus et confirmamus, decernentes receptum huiusmodi anime salutem imple tam reformandum per dictos dominos Canonicos Leopolien[ses] et Successores eorum adimpleri perpetuo debere et in eandem firmitatis robur habere. In quorum omniu[m] et singulorum premissorum fidem et testimonium patet has per Notarium nostrum fieri et eidem fieri coram nobis scribam fecerimus Nostrique Sigilli appensione iussimus et fecimus communiri. Actum et datum Leopoli in curia et domo Habitationis nostre, Anno domini Millesimo quingentesimo trigesimo octavo, Indictione undecima, pontificatus Sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri domini Pauli divina providentia pape tercij, anno ipsius quarto, Die vero vicesima quarta Mensis Maij. Presentibus Nobilibus Stanislao Lassky, Joanne Hamersky, Valentino Janyschewsky, Joanne Nygoschowsky et alijs familiaribus Curie nostre testibus ad premissa vocatis et rogatis. [Nota notarialna i znak notariusza:] Et Ego Stanislaus [...] publicus apostolica auctoritate Notarius [...] [Pod znakiem notariusza dewiza:] MEMORE[S] NOVISSIMA [Pieczęć:] [Okrągła pieczęć arcybiskupa Bernarda Wilczka z herbem Poraj w otoku z napisem, w woskowej misce, zawieszona na jedwabnym żółto-niebieskim sznurze] [Verso:] Anniversarius Venerabilis domi[ni] Nicolai Ponyathowsky Canonici Leopolien[sis] 1538 / Privilegium super Anniversario Nicolai Poniatowski [...] / Sub Lit[tera] C C