Confirmation by the Lviv Chapter of the redemption of part of the Olszowy Mill and a garden by Jan Arundinensis

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, AMEN. Since human affairs, as they say, hang by a thin thread and easily escape human memory if they are not confirmed by writing, therefore we, the Chapter of the Holy Metropolitan Church of Lviv, namely Adam Miński, provost of the Holy Spirit Hospital, Stanisław Starzechowski, Jan of Tuchola, Master of Arts, Klemens Pomiatowski, Zygmunt Grotowski, Stanisław Albin, Bachelor of Arts, and Stanisław Król, then official, canons gathered at the general chapter on Monday after Reminiscere Sunday in Lent in the Year of Our Lord one thousand five hundred and fifty-six, in Lviv in our chapter house, WE SIGNIFY by the power of this letter to all whom it concerns, both present and future, who shall receive knowledge of this: That among statutes and eminent men, due consideration should take first place, as the venerable Mr. Jan Arundinensis, Master of Arts and Bachelor of Sacred Theology, then being a senior fellow of the College and our confrere, wishing primarily to care for the salvation of his soul and wishing to increase the income of some worthy person in the future, and especially one appointed to the ecclesiastical office for the people of Lviv, promoted in arts, laws, and sacred theology from the University of Krakow, and to endow them worthily so that anniversary services for his soul and a mass in honor of God could be celebrated, and that divine worship might grow more abundantly for all time, turned to us with a request that he might redeem and recover from their hands our hereditary goods, namely the third measure of all income in our capitular mill, called Olszowy, in the Lviv suburb called Krakowskie, falling to us, which has long been called the mill of the Blessed Virgin Mary, located on the Pełtew River, together with all appurtenances of the same mill, that is, the house, garden, orchard, meadows, fish ponds, from the hands of the honest Elizabeth, widow of Stanisław Bargier, a Lviv councilor, which mill was ceded to her by us for sixteen years by right of redemption for thirty marks, as our acts and her privilege testify; and also one homestead (garden) located in the aforementioned Krakowskie Suburb in Lviv, long called Bałuszyńska, together with gardens and orchards, lying between the properties of the famous Mr. Stanisław Rychter on one side, and on the other of the noble Mr. Marcin Herburt and Bernard, deputy voivode, and Iwan Arkuszicz, surrounded on all sides by a public road, which homestead we sold two years ago by right of redemption to the prudent Albert Bacciota for twelve marks. We, recognizing this as a most useful thing and seeing that his request is just, and especially so that our goods would not be destroyed in the hands of strangers, as they already seemed to be decaying and declining, by unanimous consent and voice allowed, as we hereby allow, that the aforementioned venerable Mr. Jan Arundinensis, preacher, redeem these goods, namely the third measure of the Olszowy Mill and all profits together with houses, gardens, meadows, fish ponds, in accordance with the wording of our privileges, as well as the above-named Bałuszyńska homestead. In connection with this, at the same chapter meeting, the aforementioned Mr. Jan, preacher and our brother, arrived and counted out in cash the payment to both parties, namely thirty marks to the honest Mrs. Elizabeth, widow Bargierowa, and her sons and friends then present, as well as twelve marks for the homestead to the prudent Albert Bacciota and his wife, and paid it in full and completely. The mentioned parties, after receiving and counting the money, resigned from their right and the goods pledged and registered to them until that time into the hands of the aforementioned Mr. Jan Arundinensis, the then preacher, and the chapter resigns [them] into his hands, as has been clearly entered into our acts. These goods, thus liberated and redeemed by the venerable Mr. Jan, we assign, attach, and incorporate to the same Mr. Jan, our preacher, together with his successors legally appointed and established by us to this office, to the aforementioned Mr. Preacher and his successors, for holding, possessing, using, and collecting profits together with all benefits and income flowing from them; with the reservation, however, of our right to two measures in the above-mentioned Olszowy Mill, perpetually reserved for us, and the rent of three marks from the above-mentioned homestead [...] giving the same possessor and his successors the right to locate, lease, improve, and grant these goods in emphyteusis, however with our consent and that of our successors, but without the right to sell, alienate, or exchange them without our knowledge. In these goods, namely in the Olszowy Mill, we lease our two measures, falling to us and our successors perpetually, to the same venerable Mr. Jan the preacher exclusively for the time of his life for thirty marks of common count and for ten bushels of rye flour and four modii, that is, half-measures of wheat, under the condition that when he is summoned by the house provisor, he himself or his lessee will transport the flour to our house with his own horses, and will deposit thirty marks for the benefit of the chapter [...] on Reminiscere Sunday to our provisor, as well as three marks from the homestead. Furthermore, the mentioned mill goods, as long as he holds this lease from us, he is obliged to renovate at his own expense, that is: fences around the homesteads by the river, the mill, houses, repair all obstacles belonging to the mill, provide iron fittings, stones, and everything necessary; from our forests and goods we will provide oak and piles for construction and repair, so that he will be free to cut wood, especially in the Basiówka estate. Furthermore, he will have full power to manage his lessee and servants and to administer justice to outside parties; in the event that he proves negligent in these matters or evades them, then it will be permissible for the parties to appeal to us as the lords. Therefore, we do not renounce the rights of sovereignty in these matters together with the right of ownership for all time. And if it should happen that the mentioned mill goods are destroyed as a result of some fire (from which may God preserve) or decay from old age, or are burned as a result of an enemy invasion, or are completely knocked down due to a windstorm, then for their re-erection and rebuilding we and our successors will be obliged to give two parts of the money, and the preacher himself and his successors the third part, that is, the third penny. But because human wills are often flawed and some have the habit of sometimes appropriating what is meant for a good purpose and the honor of God, therefore the aforementioned Master Jan Arundinensis, fearing and looking to the future, so that his last will might not be violated by his successors and wishing that this regulation of his remain intact forever, and also so that we and our successors might have greater certainty regarding our goods, voluntarily and after reflection asked us that we, as lords of the soil having sovereignty, should be the guardians and curators of the mentioned goods. If, therefore, any preacher, his legally established successor, should prove arrogant and recalcitrant, and should not satisfy the will of the founder and his predecessors, appropriating everything for himself, and neglecting the repair and renovation of the buildings and fences themselves, and would not want to build and improve this anew, and warned by the chapter would not improve in accordance with these warnings, then obedient to the warnings of the predecessors, just as we are obliged as defenders of the goods and guardians of his last will, appointed against him with his removal, so that these goods would not fall into a worse, but turn into a better state, we could improve these goods of ours and take his share into our possession, just as he has now entrusted the care to us [...] and has granted perpetual management in advance, satisfying however his successor preachers according to his will for the anniversary and mass for the priest's servant, fulfilling his last regulation, as will appear in the act of erection, under the threat of the Last Judgment, promising them this provision and binding us and our successors so that the testator's will is not diminished. For greater credibility and testimony, our seal has been suspended. Done and given in Lviv in our chapter in the year and day as above, in the presence of witnesses: the famous councilors Grzegorz Kołaczek and Szymon Brzotin, Master of Arts, as well as Stanisław Kuzak, tailor, and Albert Karim, suburbanites, and me, Paweł of Kalisz, notary of the same chapter and public notary. [Plica and seal on a green-yellow/brown silk cord:] [Seal:] Round seal of the Lviv Cathedral Chapter in red-dyed wax in a wax bowl, depicting the figure of the patron (Christ/Mary/bishop?) above a shield with the coat of arms of Lviv (a lion rampant in a gate). [Verso:] [Note 1 – Latin, 16th century:] Preacher's foundation [...] of the Olszowy Mill and gardens [Note 2 – Polish, 17th/18th century:] Vendidit from now the tenement house stands on this and Mr. Rzymu... Bałuzanka in Podzamcze and the second siciorska under the High Castle A. 1704 [Note 3 – Polish/Latin:] [...] [Archival label:] 131 / 8

IN NOMINE DOMINI AMEN. Cum res human[a]e tenui dicuntur pendere filo, et facile e memoria hominum labuntur, nisi scriptis firmarentur, proinde Nos Capitulum Sanct[a]e Ecclesi[a]e Metopolitan[a]e Leopoliensis videlicet Adam Mynskowski Pr[a]epositus Hospitalis Sancti Spiritus, Stanislaus Starzechowski, Ioannes a Thuchola Artium Magister, Clemens Pomyatowski, Sigismundus Grotthowski, Stanislaus Albinus Artium Baccalaureus, & Stanislaus Krol pro tunc Oficiales Canonici in generali Capitulo, pro feria secunda post D[omi]nica[m] Reminiscere in Quadragesima Anno Domini Millesimo Quingentesimo Quinquagesimo Sexto, Leopoli in domo n[ost]ra congregati. SIGNIFICAMUS tenore pr[a]esen[tium] quibus expedit universis tam pr[a]esen[tibus] q[uam] futuris noticiam habituris, cum inter statuta & eminentiores personas primu[m] q[uo]q[ue] locum sit habitura ratio, Cum Venerabilis d[omi]n[u]s Iohannes Arundinensis Artium Mag[iste]r et Baccalaureus Theologi[a]e Sacr[a]e, protunc existens Collega Maior Collegii et Confrater noster, volens saluti anim[a]e su[a]e in primis consulere, cupiensq[ue] auctiores redde[re] censu[m] alicuius poster[a]e person[a]e idone[a]e et pr[a]esertim vero promoti in Artibus Juribus, ac Theologia Sacra ex universitate Crac[oviensi] ad offi[ci]um Ecclesia[stic]u[m] Leopoliensis populum vocari, ac exinde honest[a]e provideri sicut A[n]n[iversa]r[ia] pro anima eius, et missa in honore Dei possit celebrari et vt cultus Divinus vberior augeatur in perpetuum, Fecit a nobis quatinus bona n[ost]ra hereditaria v[idelicet] tertia[m] mensuram o[mn]i[um] emolumentor[um] in molendino n[ost]ro Capitulari, dicto Olssowi in suburbio Leopolien[si] dicto Crac[oviensi] nobis prouenientium, quod ad antiquo molendinum Beat[a]e Mari[a]e nuncupatur, super fluuium Polthew sito, cu[m] om[n]ibus eidem molendino adiacentibus, v[idelicet] domo, horto, pomorio, pratis, piscinis, de manibus honest[a]e relict[a]e Helizabeth Stamlas Bargier Consulis Leopolien[sis], quod eidem ad sedecim annos in vim reemptionis pro triginta marcis, per nos concessum erat prout Acta n[ost]ra ac Privilegium eiusdem habent. Nec no[n] hortulaniam unam in suburbio dicto Crac[oviensi] Leopolien[si] sita[m], et ab antiquo Baluszinski vocata[m], vna cu[m] hortis ac pomoriis, inter bona famati Domi[ni] Stanislai Rythter ex vna, & altera vero Generosi domi[ni] Martini Herborth et Bernardi vicepalatini, ac Iuan Arcusicz locata[m] ab omnibus partibus via publica circu[m]dante, Quam ante duobus annis in vim reemptionis, prouido Alberto Bacciota pro duodecim Marcis vendideramus, redimere ac resarcire ex manibus eorun[dem] potuerit. Nos vero ex re o[mn]i[um] verum id fore existiman[tes], et videntes peticionem eius digna[m], et pr[a]esertim ne bona nostra per manus exteror[um] annihilarentur, prout iam corrumpi et labi videbantur, vnanim[i] consensu et voto consensimus prout et p[rese]ntibus consentimus eadem bona, eidem Venerabili domino Ioanni Arundinensi Concionatori redimendi, Videlicet terciam mensuram molendini Olssowi omniumque emolumentorum cum domibus, hortis, pratis, piscinis eidem molendino mixta privilegia n[ost]ra in se c[on]tinenta, nec non hortulaniam pr[a]enominata[m] Baluszinska, quod in tantum in eodem Capitulo conuenobis prefatus do[mi]nus Ioanes C[on]cionator noster frater, numeralis pecuniis parti vtriusq[ue] videlicet triginta marcis honest[a]e domi[n]e Helizabeth relict[a]e Bargier ac filiis eius protunc p[rese]ntibus et amicis, necno[n] duodecim marcas pro hortula prouido Alberto Bacciota, et eius vxori eius actam reposuit ac plenarie et integre persoluit, prenominat[a]e vero partes acceptis ac numeratis pecuniis iure suo ac honis ad tempus eiste obligatis et inscriptis in manus pr[a]enotati domi[ni] Ioannis Arundinensis protunc Pr[a]edicatoris cesserunt, Et Capitulum in manus eide[m] resignat, proui in Actis n[ost]ris inscriptum est lucens, Quemquidem bona per Venerabilem dominum Ioanne sic eliberata ac redempta eidem domino Ioanni Concionatori n[ost]ro vna cu[m] successoribus eius legittime ad id munus per nos vocatis et institutis, ascribimus annectimus, et in corporamus, prenominato Domi[ni] Pr[a]edicatori et eius successoribus, tenen[dum], haben[dum], possiden[dum], vti fruen[dum], cu[m] omnibus vtilitatibus eorundem, ac prouentibus, C Saluo tam[en] iure nostro duar[um] mensuraru[m] in prenominato molendino Olszowi nobis perpetuo reservatarum, necno[n] Censum trium marcaru[m] ex hortulania prenominata [...] dam eidem possidentem ac successoribus suis eade[m] bona locandi, arendandi, meliorandi, in Emphiteozim conceden[di], cu[m] n[ost]ro tam[en] ac successorum n[ost]rorum consensu, non tame[n] vendendi, alienandi, vel permutandi a nobis. In quibus quidem bonis v[idelicet] molendino Olssowi, nos duas mensuras n[ost]ras pro nobis ac successoribus n[r]is perpetuo prouenien[tes] eidem Venerabili d[omi]no Ioanni Concionatori ad vitam eius dumtaxat arendamus pro triginta marcis numeri consueti, et pro dece[m] triticis farine[m] ex Siligine et quattuor modiis seu polmiarki tritice[a]e, tali conditione, quando per Procuratorem domus fuerit requisitus ipse vel arendator eius, vt ad domum n[ost]ram farinam suis eqnis advehat, & triginta marcas pro Capitulo C[on]vali[?] pro Dominica Reminiscere Procuratori n[ost]ro reponat, & tres marces ex hortulia Insuper misse prefata bona molendini quamdiu arenda tenebit a nobis propriis suis impensis restaurare, vt pote: sepes, circa domos fluminum, molendinum, domus, obstacula omnia que pertinent ad molendinu[m] dare, ferrameta, Lapides necessaria o[mn]ia salum de siluis nostris ac bonis n[ost]ris nos ad edificandu[m], reformandu[m] robora, palos eidem tradere ita vt libere erit ei excidere presertim ex bonis Bassiowka, Insuper habebit om[n]em p[otes]tatem Aren[dat]ore[m] suu[m] ac familiam regendi nec non partibus extraneis ex illis Iusticia[m] adm[ini]strandi, casu vero quo negligens fuerit in talibus vel recesserit eius extunc liberu[m] erit partibus ad nos prouocare tanq[uam] ad Duos, Ideo Ius superioritatis in talibus no[n] reijernamus vna cu[m] domino temporibus perpetuis, Et si contigeret prefata bona molendini casu aliquo ignis sive (quod absit) destrui vel propter vetustatem corumpi, vel ab incursione hostiu[m] comburi, vel ventorum impetu funditus euerti, extunc ad refaciendu[m] illud ac denuo reedificandu[m] nos et sucessores n[ost]ri, duas partes pecun[iae] et ipse D[ominus] Pr[a]edicator, et sucessores eius, tertiam parte[m], seu terciam gros[sum] darent tenebi[tur], Sed cu[m] voluntates bonu[m] sunt fragiles, vt ea que in fine bonu[m], ac honore[m] Dei conuerti niu[n]t, aliquando pro se vsurpare, aliqui sunt assueti, Ideo prenominatus d[omi]n[u]s Mag[iste]r Ioanes Arundinen[sis], timens, et futura spectans, ne voluntas eius extrema per sucessores eius viole[n]tur, et ea ordinatio sua perpetuo salua habere cupiens, vt et nos in bonis n[ost]ris certiores ac sucessores nri essent, sponte deliberatus pecijt nos, vt omnie tanq[uam] domini fundi haben[tes] superioritatem p[re]fata bona tutores ac puisores bonoru[m] predictoru[m] simus, Quod si aliquis predicator successor eius errus legitime institutus temerarius et rebellis fuerit & voluntati fundatoris ac predecessor[um] suorum non satis fecerit pro se o[mn]ia vsurpans eorunq[ue] ip[s]a man[u] edifi[ciorum] cu[m] ac sepibus edificandis restaurandis neglexerit, et duntax[at] sua ad re[d]ificari ac meliorari noluerit, vbi admonitus a Capitulo, monita eorun[dem] no[n] emenxerit, extunc monitis predecessor[um] obtemperans, quemadmodu[m] promissores bonorum ac tutores vltime[m] voluntatis eius ab eadem uocari ei eiectis sumus, ne bona in peiore[m] sed in meliore[m] conditio[nem] reddantur, possimus bona n[ost]ra meliorare, et eius sortem in possesionem n[ost]ram recipere, prout prenunc status merite[m] & Corpore nobis commisit prouisionem, ac priuius concedit perpetuo puisores tamen ac sucessores eius Predicatores iuxta voluntatem eius pro anniuersario & missa pro famulo Sacerdote contentos redden[di], et ordinationi eius vltime prout in erectione patebit, satisfaciendo sub interminatione Iudicij extremi, illis prouisioni et patiens promitten[tes] nos et sucessores nostros obligantes, ne voluntas testatoris minuetur IN quorum meliorem fidem ac testimonium Sigillum n[ost]rum est sub appensum, Actum & Dat[um] Leopoli in Capitulo nostro Anno et die quo supra Presentibus testibus famatis dominis Consulibus Gregorio Colaczek ac Simone Brzotino Artium Magistro, Necno[n] Stanislao Kuzak Sartore & Alberto Karim suburbianis & me Paulo a Calis promie Notario Capituli eiusdem & publico. [Plica i pieczęć na sznurze jedwabnym zielono-żółtym/brązowym:] [Pieczęć:] Okrągła pieczęć kapituły katedralnej lwowskiej w wosku barwionym na czerwono w misce woskowej, wyobrażająca postać patrona (Chrystus/Maryja/biskup?) nad tarczą z herbem Lwowa (lew wspięty w bramie). [Verso:] [Nota 1 - łacina, XVI w.:] Fundatio predicatorii zott... molendini Olssowy ac hortulani[s] [Nota 2 - polski, XVII/XVIII w.:] Vendidit de teraz kamienica stoi na to wras a Panu Rzymu... Bałuzanka na Podzamczu a druga siciorska pod Wysokim Zamkiem A. 1704 [Nota 3 - polski/łacina:] ... [Etykieta archiwalna:] 131 / 8