Confirmation by King Sigismund Augustus of the grant of the wójtostwo (advocacy) in the village of Taurów to Jan Sadłowski

SIGISMUND AUGUST By the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podlachia, Livonia, etc., Lord and Heir. We hereby announce by this our letter to all together and to each one individually, to whom it should be known and who shall receive information about this. That a parchment letter, intact and whole, of the Reverend Father in Christ, Lord Stanisław Słomowski, Archbishop, and the venerable chapter of the metropolitan church of Lwów, provided with their own appended seals, was presented to us, by the power of which the deserted village called Taurów was given and transferred to the noble Jan Sadłowski for two lives in order to bring it from nothing to a better state, etc. Therefore, some of our advisors have requested us to deign to confirm and approve this same letter with our royal authority. The literal content of this letter follows and is as follows: We, Stanisław Słomowski of Szreńsk [Czechnowa], by the grace of God Archbishop of the holy metropolitan church of Lwów, announce hereby to all together and to each one individually, present and future, who shall receive information about this. That we, for the glory and honor of ALMIGHTY GOD and His glorious Mother, the Virgin Mary, together with the entire heavenly host, desiring together with the venerable chapter of our metropolitan church of Lwów to multiply the goods of this our church for our archiepiscopal table and to bring and restore it to a better and more useful state, as far as it is given to us from above, our deserted village called Taurów, lying on the Strypa River in the Trembowla district, adjacent to our designated town of Kozłów, from which very little benefit and income flowed to us and our successors, indeed, day by day, raids, violent seizures, and disturbances concerning this land of our table arose more and more from the side of neighbors. We, having considered these inconveniences, which often caused and brought us no small torment, desiring to restore and return this village to peaceful and secure possession and use, to the noble Jan Sadłowski [...] greatly deserving before us and the venerable chapter of our metropolitan church of Lwów, who has not ceased in the faithfulness of his services to us and [...] so that we might make him more willing, more compliant, and more obligated to us, our church, and our entire Lwów chapter, have given and ceded, and do hereby give and cede, the aforementioned village of Taurów, located on the Strypa River – starting from the embankment and the public road that leads to our village of Kozłów from the village of Płotycza [...] Mikołaj Kumpaniejlic in the pond up to the same embankment, and similarly to the public road that leads towards Kozłów from the town of Gliniany, and in length with these same public roads, area, and hearth [?], starting from the land of our town of Kozłów, going to the places where the said deserted village of Taurów was formerly separated from our mentioned town of Kozłów by our predecessors, that is, the annexation to this village, and the place of the said Mikołaj – to Jan Sadłowski, with the prior consent of the excellent and venerable chapter of Lwów. Permitting him, while exercising this wójtostwo, together with his successors, not to be removed or evicted until his damages incurred and his expenditures are satisfied; and if this should prove impossible, then in his place he shall receive a real tax exemption for his rightful [...]. So that on the land and in the fields of this same village of Taurów he may settle peasants and cottagers, as many as he can bring from hereditary estates. To all of which peasants and cottagers, currently and in the future settled, we give and grant an exemption from labor, rents, and all transport duties for us and our successors for twelve years; after which time they shall pay rents and labor to us and our successors. From them, the acting wójt will collect [dues]. We also give to the same Jan Sadłowski, wójt, and his rightful successors four hides of land by reason of this same wójtostwo [...] of the Kozłów measure, which he and his successor shall possess according to his pleasure together with meadows and benefits. We also permit him to establish a pond on the Łomnica River and a mill, if he can conveniently locate and build it. And having built it, let him have freedom on the mentioned river. And if it should happen that a pond is newly established and built on the same river for us or our successors, then every third day [...] in that pond at the expense of the peasants settled by him. Beyond the four hides granted to him by us of our own free will, we give and grant to the same wójt four well-settled peasants with their corvée and rent, and one inn by the road according to the will of him and his successors. And from other peasants settled by him, after the expiration of the exemption period, they shall perform four days of labor for the benefit of the altar table for the wójt, and other [...] we give and grant. After the passing of the said Jan Sadłowski and his rightful successor, if no heirs remain, and they would like to choose a sum from this same wójtostwo for his expenditures, then the mentioned peasants for labor [...] ten florins of Polish coin and count, and for a cottager five florins each [...] and a vineyard, they will be obliged to pay to the same Jan Sadłowski. From which wójtostwo they will be able to withdraw and will not have to resign it to our successors until the said amount or sum is first paid and deducted by our successors for each settled peasant. And once the memory of the successors of Jan Sadłowski [...] fully pay the above-specified [sum], then the said village should be returned to our successors without any objection or judgment. The buildings and ponds of this wójtostwo with the mill, as much as he can possess [...] for the construction of buildings they will be obliged to pay to the mentioned successors. But so that he who reaps the benefits also bears the burdens, during this period free from such services, the same Jan Sadłowski will be obliged to us, our successors, and the venerable chapter of our metropolitan church of Lwów, and voluntarily commits himself to all honest and possible mounted service and to overseeing the manor around this same village of Taurów within a radius of five miles, whenever the need arises together with the chapter of the goods of our church, with one or according to the custom of the administrators of the Lwów chapter, whom neither we nor the chapter are permitted to judge. But for whatever services he is called upon at a given time by us or our successors, then necessary supplies must be secured for him and his horses. In faith and testimony of all this and individual matters [...] we have caused to be drawn up by our public notary and scribe of conventual acts [...] and ordered and caused it to be strengthened by the appending of our seal and that of the venerable chapter of this our church of Lwów. Done and given at our archiepiscopal manor in the town of Dunajów on the nearest Monday after the feast of the Holy Trinity [June 11], in the Year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and seventy-first, in the fourteenth Roman indiction, in the sixth year of the pontificate of the most holy father and lord in Christ, Lord Pius, by the providence of God, Pope the Fifth, in the presence of the lords born there, Jan [...], and the noble lords Klemens Domałowski, Stanisław Albin, Wincenty Ugmanowski, Krzysztof Armanowski, Stanisław Kozłowski, Stanisław Czebiński – canons of Lwów, Jan Górski, then preacher of Lwów, Jan Lubiecki, Stanisław Biniewski, and other our courtiers as witnesses called and requested for the above. AND I, Grzegorz, son of Jan Bilińczyk from Drohobycz, cleric of the diocese of Lutsk, by the authority of the holy apostolic and imperial public notary and scribe of the curia before the aforementioned most reverend Lord Stanisław Słomowski of Szreńsk, by the grace of God Archbishop of the holy metropolitan church of Lwów, because I was personally present at the above grant of the wójtostwo of the village of Taurów with the consent of the holy chapter of Lwów, at the designation of goods [...] and at all individual matters above, when they were happening and taking place, together with the above-mentioned witnesses, and I saw and heard all this happening, therefore I have drawn up this [act] written by my own hand by the order of the same most illustrious Lord Archbishop of Lwów and put it into public form, and marked and strengthened it with my usual and known sign and name together with the appending of the seal of the mentioned most illustrious Lord Archbishop and the venerable chapter of Lwów in faith and testimony of all this and individual matters; similarly testified by the one who wrote above with his own hand, Klemens Domałowski, procurator of the Lwów chapter. WE THEREFORE, graciously acceding to this request as just and in accordance with justice, confirm and approve the presented letter in all its points, clauses, and articles, hereby establishing by our letter that it should always and everywhere possess the power of due permanence. In faith of which our seal has been appended to this. Given in Warsaw [...] in the Year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and seventy-second, and in the forty-third year of our reign. [Chancery note on the left:] Franciszek, Bishop of Kraków, Deputy Chancellor of the Kingdom [by his own hand] [Signature on the right:] [...] Canon of Gniezno, Płock, Secretary [On the reverse:] [Note 1:] Privilege of Sigismund Augustus from the year 1572 granting rights to the village of Taurów, granted to Jan Sadłowski by Stanisław Słomowski, Archbishop of Lwów. [Note 2:] These papers are needed for this manor [...] Taurów. [Note 3:] 1571 [...] 1572 [...]

SIGISMVNDVS AVGVSTVS Dei gratia Rex Poloniae, magnus dux Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogitiae, Kioviae, Volhiniae, Podlachiae, Livoniaeque etc. dominus et haeres. Significamus praesentibus literis nostris quorum interest universis et singulis harum notitiam habituris. Quia exhibitae sunt nobis literae pergamenteae sanae atque integrae Reverendi in Christo patris domini Stanislai Szlomowski Archiepiscopi et Venerabilis Capituli Ecclesiae Metropolitanae Leopoliensis propriis sigillis appensis communitae, quibus Nobili Joanni Sadlowski deserta villa dicta Thawrow de albo ad meliorem conditionem redigere etc. ad duo vitae tempora data est et concessa. Supplicatumque est nobis quorundam Consiliariorum nostrorum ut eas ipsas literas authoritate nostra Regia confirmare et approbare dignaremur. Quarum quidem literarum de verbo ad verbum tenor sequitur et est eiusmodi: Nos Stanislaus Szlomowski de Czechnow Dei gratia sanctae Ecclesiae Metropolitanae Leopoliensis Archiepiscopus Universis et singulis praesentibus et futuris harum notitiam habituris significamus tenore praesentium. Quia Nos ad laudem et honorem DEI omnipotentis eiusque matris gloriosae Virginis Mariae, cum omni militia coelesti. Cupientes una cum Venerabili Capitulo Ecclesiae nostrae Metropolitanae Leopoliensis bona eiusdem Ecclesiae nostrae ad mensam nostram Archiepiscopalem augmentari et in meliorem ac utiliorem conditionem redducere atque referre quantum nobis permittitur ex alto. Villam nostram desertam alteram Thawrow supra flumine Strypa iacentem in Districtu Trembouliensi Oppido nostro Kozlow consignata adiacente. Unde nobis et successoribus nostris parvus admodum fructus et proventus sequebantur, imo indies magis ac magis a vicinis collateralibus invasiones, occupationes violentas, motus huiusmodi fundi mensae nostrae oriebantur. Nostrisque attendentibus ealibus incommodis saepius nobis illatis non mediocrem molestiam inferentibus et ferentibus. Volentesque eandem villam ad pacificam et quietam possessionem et usum reddere et restituere. Nobili Joanni Szadlowski [...] a nobis et Venerabili Capitulo Ecclesiae nostrae Metropolitanae Leopoliensis optimi meriti qui et hucusque nobis suis fidelibus servitiis non destitit esse et [...] ut eum nobis et Ecclesiae nostrae totique Capitulo nostro Leopoldiensi ad maiora obsequia reddamus alaciorem, promptiorem et obligatiorem. Praedictam villam Thawrow supra flumine Strypa consistentem. Incipiendo ab aggere et via publica, quae ducit ad villam nostram Kozlow a villa Płotycza [...] Nicolai Kumpaneglic in lacu eundem usque ad aggerem, et simili ad viam publicam quae tendit versus Kozlow ex oppido Glinia in longitudinem vero cum eisdem viis publicis superficie et fumo [?] incipiendo ad fundum oppidi nostri Kozlow veniendo ad loca ubi praefata villa deserta Thawrow a praedicto nostro oppido Kozlow per praecessores nostros anteignatis est dismembrata, alias adiectionem in ea villa, et locum Nicolay dicti Joanni Szadlowski dedimus et concessimus, damusque et concedimus cum consensu prius mag[nifi]ci Ven[erabi]lis Capituli Leopoldiensis per praesentes. Permittentes illum exactam Advocationem non removens neque excorvene una cum Successoribus suis, usque ad exigentiam damnorum suorum per ipsum facti et expensis illius quodsi vide[ri] non habebit verum extunc loco ipsius habebit actualem libertatem fatiis eius legitimis. Ita ut in fundo et agris eiusdem villae Thawrow Cmethones et hortulanos locare, quantuncunque illos haereditariis eripere possent. Quibus ipse non fundum modo omnibus te[mpore] p[rae]sentibus cmethonibus et hortulanis locandi libertatem a Laboribus et censibus et vectigalibus quibusvis a nobis et Successoribus nostris non excipiendo ad annos duodecim damus et concedimus, his expiratis Census et labores praenobis et Successoribus nostris exsolvant. Ex quibus nobis Advoceatus praesidentium percipiet. Damus etiam eidem Joanni Sadlowski Advocato et eius legitimis Successoribus quatuor laneos agri propter ipsam advocationem [...] mansurae lauteg [?] Kozlowiensibus, quibus ille cum suo successore pro beneplacito suo cum pratis et utilitatibus. Piscinalos etiam fatiendi in flumine Łomnicza diem et molendinum si commode locare et extruere poterit eidem concedimus. Extruensque teneat liberam in flumine antelapsa habebit. Et si in eodem flumine piscinam de novo nos vel successores nostri erigere et extruere contigerit, extunc diebus tertiis usus Salitribus quanta et sesca fenis illi piscinam in illa et eadem Contexta expensis Cmethonibus per ipsum locati. Vltra quatuor laneos ipsi per nos proprio studio concessos quatuor cmethones bene locatos cum labore et censu et tabernam unam ad vieam sponte et Suctoriis illius habere de vestris tamen eisdem Advocato damus et concedimus. Ex aliis vero cmethonibus per eum locati post expirationem fatiis libertates mensae altarium Advocatus quatuor dies laborent, alii theoli per ipsos illius [statu] damus et concedimus. Post decessum vero dicti Joannis Szadlowski et eius legitimi Successoris si heredes non extiterint, Duos flores ipsius de eadem Advocatione exacture et ipsius pro suo venali adeo extruere Voluerint, extunc praedicti cmethone laborem emotonalem obtento florenorum decem pecuniae monetae et numeri Polonici et pro hortulano ad partes media florenorum quings administrat et unius Peterelance et vineam et eidem Joanni Szadlowski tenebuntur, exacti a stricti et obligati. Ex cuius advocationis possint eundem recedere, nec ipsum Successoribus nostris resignare debebunt, nisi priusipsis per Suctores nostros pro qualibet emetone locato, dicta pecunia vel suma persoluta et numerata fuerit. Cum vero memoriae suctas m[a]g[nifi]cetis Joannis Szadlowski fatiendis [...] supra specificatum in toto persolverint extunc villa praefata sine quavis contradictione et sententia pro successoribus nostris devolvi debebit. Cuius vero Advocationialis aedificia et piscinalium cum molendino qua poterit habere [...] Eciam proboz haeres ac hoc defectum et difficilem aedificationum rebonum pro aedificio faciendo [...] fatiendi et solvi dictis Suctoribus tenebuntur. Sed quia sentire comodum sentire et onetis omis. Servigiis interim huiusmodi libera licentis nos idem Joannes Szadlowski nobis et Suctoribus nostris et Venerabili Capitulo Ecclesiae nostrae Metropolitanae Leopoldiensis erit obligatus et se ultro obligati ad quodlibet servicium honestum et possibile equestre et inservire curtem circa eandem villam Thawrow ad spacium quinque milliarum, quoties indigentia et contigerit cum Comilione suo spiritualium in bonis Ecclesiae nostrae, cum uno aut fuerit more villi Capituli Leopoldiensis factoribus, quas nec nobis nec Capitulo imo agere et iudicare liceat. Sed quae servicia obtenta tempore per nos vel Suctores nostros vocatus fuerit extunc illi acq[ue] equis illius necessaria provideri tenebuntur. In quorum omnium et singulorum fidem et testimonium [...] Fieri fecimus per Notarium nostrum publicum et conventualem Actuum scribam [...] ac unacum Venerabilis Capituli eiusdem Ecclesiae nostrae Leopoldiensis sigillorum appensione iussimus et fecimus communiri. Actum et datum in Curia nostra Archiepiscopali in Civitate Dunayow feria secunda post festum Sanctissimae Trinitatis proxima, Anno Domini Millesimo Quingentesimo Septuagesimo primo, Indictione Romana quartadecima, Pontificatus Sanctissimi in Christo Patris et domini, domini Pii divina providentia Papae Quinti anno sexto, praesentibus ibidem generosis dominis Joanni [...] Nobilique dominis Clemente Domałowski, Stanislao Albin, Vincentio Vgmanowski, Christophoro Armanowsski, Stanislao Kozłowski, Stanislao Czembinski Canonicis Leopoldien[sibus], Joanne Gurski actu praebytro [?] Concionatore Leopoliensi, Joanne Lubiezki, Stanislao Biniewski, aliisque familiaribus nostris testibus ad praemissa vocatis et rogatis. ET EGO Gregorius Joannis Bilinicz de Drohobycz Diocesis Luceoriensis Clericus, Sacra Apostolica et Sacri Caesareae Auctoritate Notarius publicus et coram memorato Reverendissimo Domino Stanislao Szlomowski de Czechnow Dei gratia Sanctae Ecclesiae Metropolitanae Leopoliensis Archiepiscopo, Curiae Scriba, quia praedictis Advocationis Villae Thawrow concessioni per Sacri Capituli Leopoldiensis consensui, praesenti et bonorum designationi, ochmealicaris districtu aliisque rebus et singulis praemissis omnibus et singulis dum sic ut promittitur agerentur et fierent una cum praenominatis testibus praesens personaliter interfui eaque omnia et singula sic fieri vidi et audivi, ideo praesens hoc manu mea propria scriptum de mandato eiusdem Illustrissimi Domini Archiepiscopi Leopoldiensis in eam vim confeci et in publicam formam redegi, signoque et nomine meis consuetis et solitis una cum memorati Illustrissimi Domini Archiepiscopi et Venerabilis Capituli Leopoldiensis sigillorum subappensione, consignavi et communivi in fidem ac testimonium omnium et singulorum praemissorum, fidem similiter qui supra manu sua scripsit, Clemens Domałowski procurator Capituli Leopoliensis. NOS itaque hunc supplicationi uti iusta et aequitati consentanea benigne annuentes praeventas literas in omnibus earum punctis, clausulis et articulis confirmamus et approbamus, praesentibus literis nostris decernentes eas robur debitae firmitatis semper ac ubique habere debere. In cuius rei fidem sigillum nostrum praesentibus est appensum. Datum Varschoviae [...] Anno Domini Millesimo Quingentesimo Septuagesimo Secundo, Regni vero nostri Anno Quadragesimo tertio. [Nota kancelaryjna z lewej:] Franciscus Crac[oviensis] Episcopus Regni Vicecanc[ellarius] [manu propria] [Podpis z prawej:] [...] Canonicus Gnesnensis Plocensis Secretarius [Verso:] [Nota 1:] Privilegium Sigismundi Augusti Anno 1572do dantis jura villae Thawrow per Stanislaum Slomowski Archiepiscopum Leopoliensem concessum Joanni Szadlowski. [Nota 2:] Te Papiery na ten defor. [...] Taurów potrzebne. [Nota 3:] 1571 [...] 1572 [...]