Confirmation by King Sigismund II Augustus of the purchase of real estate in Piotrków by the city of Lwów

SIGISMUND AUGUST by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, etc., lord and heir. We make known by the tenor of this present [document] to all together and to each one individually, present and future, to whom it is necessary to know and who shall receive information about this: Presented before us in the name of the illustrious mayor and councilors of our city of Lwów was a document of entry [intabulation] originating from the council acts of our city of Piotrków, concerning the plot, house, and garden specified below, bearing the seal of the same city, intact and free from any mark of suspicion. And we were humbly requested to deign to approve and confirm this same letter of entry, and also to grant it our royal consent and validation. The words of this entry run as follows: IN OUR PRESENCE, in the council residence, personally appeared the venerable Mr. Jan Kraska, Piotrków altarist of the local parish church in Piotrków in the Holyloy chapel, of his own free will and with our special consent, as the rightful patrons of the said altar, having chosen as his guardian the illustrious Maciej, furrier, our fellow citizen, acknowledged openly and clearly that he sold hereditarily his house with the plot and garden belonging to the aforementioned altar in the Holyloy chapel, lying behind the Kraków Gate, between the garden of the illustrious Wawrzyniec Schoynko on one side and Adam Rzymski on the other, with all and individual appurtenances to the said house, to the illustrious gentlemen mayor and councilors of the city of Lwów, present and currently in office; and for this same house, he confessed that he had safely and effectively received full and total compensation from the same gentlemen mayor and councilors from the hands of the illustrious gentlemen Andrzej Abrek and Jan Waiss, their honorable colleagues. And therefore, from this very house with the plot, garden, and its individual appurtenances, just as he himself held, possessed, and used it, as wide, far, and in circumference as it has long been delimited and marked off from other adjacent gardens, he relinquished his full right of dominion and ownership, and for eternal times in his name and that of his successors at the aforementioned altar, he renounced it in favor of the same gentlemen mayor and councilors, present and currently in office, for holding, possessing, and peaceful use and turning to their own benefits. From which house that venerable Mr. Jan Kraska, through the aforementioned guardian, has perpetually departed, with this special reservation that the same Lwów mayor and councilors, as mentioned above, present and currently in office, shall be obliged and ought to pay every year from these goods on the feast of Saint Matthew to the same Mr. Jan Kraska, the current possessor of the said altar, and to other altarists of the same altar for the time being, a rent of fifteen groszy of common currency circulating in the Kingdom, expressed in the act of erection, and the same Lwów mayor and councilors shall not be obliged to any other burdens, payments, or any other benefits – from which these goods shall always be free. To which the gentlemen Andrzej Abrek and Jan Waiss themselves, in their own name and that of their other brethren, expressed consent and submitted to it, requesting through a statement that this be entered into our acts, to which we consented and allowed. And then this happened in the Year of Our Lord one thousand five hundred and thirty-eight, on the Monday before the feast of Saint Valentine. Done in the Piotrków council acts. We, therefore, acceding to the request of the aforementioned councilors of our city of Lwów, and also relying on the consent and confirmation of our divine Parent concerning the erection of the altar in the chapel of the parish church in Piotrków founded by the once deceased Stanisław Ozdora, a Piotrków citizen, presented to us in authentic form dated in Kraków, on the Saturday after the feast of Saint Margaret, in the Year of Our Lord one thousand five hundred and thirty-one, we approve, ratify, and confirm this same entry of purchase of the above-specified house, recognizing it as valid, by our certain knowledge, just as we hereby approve, ratify, and confirm it, deciding that the said entry – no differently than if it had occurred with the addition of our special consent – shall retain the power of eternal durability in all conditions, clauses, and articles. In witness whereof our seal has been appended to this present [document]. Given in Piotrków, at the general sejm of the Kingdom, on the Saturday before the upcoming feast of Saint Matthias the Apostle, in the Year of Our Lord one thousand five hundred and sixty-three, and in the thirty-fourth year of our reign. [Signatures:] Jan Ocieski / Chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland By the report of the Illustrious Jan of Ociesk, Chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland, General of Kraków, Starosta of Oszmiana [?], Zator, Sambor, and Olsztyn. [Spine / Verso:] [Period inscription:] Jan Kraska renounced / regarding the land [?] and not the dwelling / Maria [...] [Below:] H. 1. mo [Archival inscription:] Confirmation of the entry by Sigismund Augustus / for the court of the city of Lwów / in Piotrków in the Year 1563 / About the city of Lwów [Below:] Cabinet [Arca] 10 [Chancery marking / number:] N. 1. [Oval ink seal:] ARCHIVE OF ANCIENT ACTS OF THE CITY OF LWÓW [Seal:] Greater royal seal of Sigismund II Augustus in red wax in a bowl of light natural wax, suspended on a parchment strip (plica); the right edge of the bowl and the impression broken.

[Nagłówek majuskułą:] S I G I S M V N D V S A V G V S T V S Dei gratia Rex Poloniae, magnus Dux Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogitiae etc. dominus et haeres. Significamus tenore praesentium quibus expedit universis et singulis praesentibus et futuris harum notitiam habituris. Exhibitas esse coram nobis nomine famatorum Proconsulis et Consulum civitatis nostrae Leopoliensis, Literas inscriptionis ex actis Consulatus Civitatis nostrae Piotrkowien[sis] impensis Aream, domus et horti infraspecificati emanatas, Sigillo eiusdem Civitatis obmunitas, integras omniq[ue] suspitionis nota carentes. Supplicatumq[ue] nobis esse, ut eas ipsas literas inscriptionis approbare et confirmare, atq[ue] eisdem consensum n[ost]r[u]m Regio ratihabitionis dignaremur. Cuius quidem inscriptionis verba haec sequuntur: IN PRAESENTIA nostra Consulari residentia personaliter constitutus Honorabilis dominus Joannes Craska Piotrkoviensis Altarista ecclesiae huius Parochialis Piotrkowien[sis] in capella holyloya de ipsius libera voluntate atq[ue] consensu speciali nostro vti dicti Altaris legitimorum patronorum adcepto sibi Tutore famato Matthia pellificio concive n[ost]ro, recognovit palam et expressum, quia domum suam cum area et horto ad dictum altare in capella holyloya pertinente post portam Cracoviensem inter hortu[m] famosi Laurentii Schoynko ex vna et Adae Rzymska parte ab altera iacentem, cum omnibus et singulis ad dictam domum pertinentibus, famatis dominis Proconsuli et Consulibus Civitatis Leopoliensis moderno et pro tempore existentis hereditarie vendidit atq[ue] pro ipsa plenariam et omnimodam satisfactionem ab eisdem dominis Proconsule et Consulibus de manibus famatorum dominorum Andreae Abrek et Joannis Waiss collegarum suarum Spectabilium, salvis et effectualiter fassus est recepisse. Et ideo ipsam domum cum area, horto, et suis singulis attinentiis, prout solus tenuit, habuit et possidebat, ita late, longe et circumferenter, pro ex antiquo ab aliis hortulanis sibi adiacen[tibus] est dislimata et ellimitata pleno jure suo domino ac proprietate abscessit et temporibus perpetuis pro se et suis successoribus altaris praefati renuntiavit per ipsos dominos Proconsulem et Consules modernos et pro tempore existen[tes] tenen[dam], haben[dam] et pacifice possiden[dam], et in vsus beneplacitos ipsorum converten[dam], de quibus domo ipse Honorabilis dominus Joannes Craska per praenominatorum dominum Tutorem perpetuo abrenuntiavit, hoc singulariter expresso, quod ipsi domini Proconsul et Consules Leopolienses vt praefertur moderni et pro tempore existen[tes] tenebuntur ac debebunt singulis annis de ipsis bonis pro festo sancti Mathei eidem domino Joanni Craska dicti altaris moderno possessori et aliis ipsius altaris pro tempore existen[tibus] census quindecim grossos pecuniae communis in Regno curren[tis] in erectioni expressi pendere et censuare et ad alia nulla onera re[solutiones] aliquarum aliarum accessionum, a quibus ipsa bona semper erunt libera, ipsi Proconsul et consules Leopolienses non obligabunt, ad quod ipse domini Andreas Abrek et Joannes Waiss suo et aliorum contratriu[m] suorum nomine consenserunt, ac se submiserunt, quod protestando sibi ad acta nostra produci postulaverunt, quod nos illis annuimus et admisimus. Et tunc Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo trigesimo octavo, feria secunda proxima ante festum sancti Valentini. Actum in actis consularibus Piotrkowien[sibus]. Nos itaq[ue] supplicationi praefatorum Consulum Civitatis n[ost]rae Leopoliensis annuentes, inhaerentesque consensui et confirmationi divi Parentis nostri super erectionem altaris in Sacello ecclesiae Parochialis Piotrkoviensis constituti per quondam olim Stanislaum Osdora Cive[m] Piotrkowien[sem], coram nobis in forma authentica de data Cracovia Sabbato post festum sanctae Margarethae, anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo trigesimo primo exhibitis, Eam ipsam inscriptionem emptionis domus supraspecificatae ratam habere ex certa scientia n[ost]ra approbamus, ratificamus et confirmamus, prout praesentibus approbamus, ratificamus et confirmamus, Decernen[tes] inscriptionem praefatam, non secus atq[ue] speciali consensu nostro accidente facta foret, in omnibus conditionibus, clausulis et articulis robur perpetuae firmitatis obtinere. In cuius rei fidem Sigillum n[ost]rum praesentibus est subappensum. Datum Petricoviae in Conventu Regni generali Sabbato ante festum sancti Matthiae Apostoli proximo, Anno Domini Millesimo Quingentesimo Sexagesimo tertio, Regni vero n[ost]ri anno trigesimo quarto. [Podpisy:] Joannes Ocieski / R[egni] P[oloniae] Canc[ellarius] Ad relationem Magnifici Joannis de Ocziesko Regni Poloniae Cancellarii, Cracovien[sis] generalis, Oszmianen[sis?], Zatorien[sis], Samborien[sis], Olstinen[sis]q[ue] Capitanei [Verso:] [Inskrypcja z epoki:] Joannes Craska forisfecit / de fundo [?] non mansione / Marie [...] [Poniżej:] H. 1. mo [Inskrypcja archiwalna:] T Approbatio Inscriptio[n]is p[er] Sigis[mundum] Aug[ustum] / super Curiam Ciuitatis Leopolien[sis] / in Piotrzkow A[nn]o 1563 / De civit[ate] Leopolien[si] [Poniżej:] Arca 10 [Oznaczenie kancelaryjne / numer:] N. 1. 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