Confirmation by King Sigismund III of a property donation in Lviv to Mikołaj and Anna

SIGISMUND [S]igismund the Third, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, etc., and also by the same grace appointed King of Sweden, Grand Duke of Finland, etc. We hereby announce by this our letter to all and each concerned that a paper document has been presented to us, extracted from the Lviv land records, containing an entry transferred from the Lviv castle records regarding the donation of a certain plot with buildings, together with a garden, a meadow, and other appurtenances, made by [the noble Anna Kunowska? by ...] and the noble Wawrzyniec Rosnowski, her second husband, to the honest Mikołaj, formerly a servant of the well-born Kazimierz Hynek, and Anna, spouses, and their descendants. And we have been requested to deign to approve, confirm, and ratify it with our royal authority; the tenor of which is as follows: It happened in Lviv at the land court sessions on the Thursday after the feast of Saint Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr, in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and eighty-five. Appearing personally before the court and these Lviv land records, the noble Anna, daughter of the late noble Adam Molfka, widow of the late noble Łukasz Kunowski from her first marriage, and currently the lawful wife of the noble Wawrzyniec Rosnowski from her second marriage, in the presence and with the consent of her husband as her guardian personally assisting, regarding the matters described below contained in these records, yielding from her land, district, law, forum, and any proper and competent jurisdictions and renouncing them in this regard, and incorporating and transferring herself along with the goods and all her successors to this Lviv land law and jurisdiction, insofar as it concerns and pertains to the act and effect of this entry. Transferring the Lviv castle entry from the records of the same castle of Lviv to these Lviv land records, being of sound mind and body, using and relying on the wholesome advice of her friends, after prior consideration within herself, not being led by any deceit or error, she openly, publicly, and in express words confessed and testified: That she, her entire and intact hereditary goods, that is, a house with a plot and garden and all buildings and orchards on the upper Podzamcze of Lviv, situated and lying between the plots of the Greek rite church under the invocation of Saint Paraskeva on one side, and the one formerly called Bogdanowski or Niekraszowski on the other, together with a meadow also hereditary near the village of Biłohorszcze [belonging to] the City in the mud, lying between the meadows of the Armenian Bishop of Lviv on one side and the well-born Klemens Kluss on the other; and also another meadow under the Alder Mill, lying between the Kotkowskis on one side and Sieńko the Saddler on the other, acquired by her in any way from her late husband, the noble Łukasz Kunowski, and his successors, with all right, authority, ownership, and hereditary titles, as well as with all appurtenances, attachments, connections, fruits, incomes, profits, rents, revenues, and benefits in general, all and singular, to these same goods in any way looking and pertaining, reserving or excluding nothing of all this for herself and her successors, so that the whole does not detract from the part, and the part from the whole, and as she herself held, had, and possessed them and drew profits from them — to the honest Mikołaj, formerly a servant of the well-born Kazimierz Hynek, and Anna, spouses, both jointly, and their descendants, by the right and title of perpetual and irrevocable donation without the possibility of overturning, she gives, donates, records, and resigns in effect, giving and admitting from now on here before the court and these Lviv land records to the same spouses and their descendants real intromission and actual, peaceful, and free use and possession of these donated and resigned goods through a land or general bailiff of the Kingdom and two noblemen, whomsoever they wish to have, who, together with their successors, have been designated and appointed from now on for this intromission and taking possession of the goods on the site of the goods in accordance with the law and by the said court, so that these goods, recorded and resigned to them in the above-mentioned manner, may be held, had, used, possessed by the same spouses and their successors by right and title of inheritance, and also given, donated, sold, alienated, exchanged, resigned, and freely turned to their own and their successors' any desired profits for all time. And the testifying Anna Rosnowska herself, nor her successors, should in any way deny or oppose the same spouses or their descendants the real intromission and actual, peaceful, and free use and possession of these donated and resigned goods, nor, after the admission and granting of intromission and possession, cause harm to them in these goods, either by herself or through any other substituted and subordinate persons, or disturb them in peaceful possession. Indeed, she should and will be obliged, as she hereby guarantees and submits herself and her successors from all her goods wherever situated to the same spouses and their descendants, after the granting and admission and in no way hindering the said intromission and possession, to protect, defend, evict, release, intercede, and make free from harm, together with their successors, these spouses and their successors in these goods and their peaceful use from all and any damages and obstacles from all persons of any sex, status, and condition, or their rights and entries of any earlier and later, debts, burdens, dowry and dower, life interests, sales, exchanges, resignations, and any other perpetual and temporal, made and to be made, summonses, co-summonses, [?], royal arm, into these goods [...] and brought, lawsuits and profits obtained and to be obtained, and all court proceedings suspended in any point and degree of law. Likewise, from all legal-like harassment by individual persons, in all courts and offices of the Kingdom, in all legal instances always and everywhere, whenever the need arises, through all land prescriptions to guard, defend, evict, release, intercede, and make free from harm together with their successors, and make these goods clean and free, without the obstacle of any land prescription, and this under the penalty of Three [marks?] of damages on the simple assertion of words, without any corporal oath taxed by these spouses and their descendants, and these, in case of failure to comply with the above, refusal of actual intromission and possession, or in any way hindering, as well as non-performance of defense and eviction, to be paid irrevocably, whenever the need arises, submitting herself; from the defense of such Three damages in no way, neither by land penalties described in the Statute, nor by prescription escaping. In the event of failure to fulfill all and singular the above things contained in this entry and being sentenced to pay those Three damages due to transgression and submission, for which the said testifying party or her successors will allow themselves to be sued by these spouses or their descendants, again yielding from her land, district, law, court, and any of her own and proper jurisdictions, she shall be obliged to appear in the Lviv castle office on the first term of the summons as peremptory, satisfy the law, answer directly and judicially, and satisfy this peremptory entry, and submit to the judgment. This very first term and other subsequent terms of the case, without any judicial and extrajudicial sought and potentially sought delays, true or ordinary illnesses, absence due to higher matters, for any defenses, for subsequent military service, for years of minority, for acquittance from anywhere newly presented, demanding from now on. Likewise without any legal obstacles: war, general and particular sejm, plague, flood, breaking of bridges, enemy invasion on the borders of the Kingdom, or times — God forbid — of interregnum, absence in the Kingdom, and any other edicts, provisions, and customs introduced that might follow. Furthermore, matters and services of the Republic, lack of any and allegations of ignorance, protests, [...] peremptory prescriptions [...], avoiding nothing that should be legally fulfilled, nor the report drawn up in this name from those presented, without resorting to improper and premature evocations, summonses, co-summonses, as well as announcements resulting therefrom, improper issuances and submissions, motions, appeals, challenges to judgments, or their pursuit through any co-summonses, in no way defending herself together with her successors, from which she already from now on together with her successors through voluntary entry and submission resigns and renounces. In general, without any devised and potentially devised, which the mind and reason or human ingenuity could invent, delays, postponements, escapes, evasions, and legal and factual means, pretexts of prolongation, by which she would protect herself together with her offspring in the above, under the penalty of losing the entire case by herself and her successors. Which, after paying the fee of the memorable court, was confirmed. We, therefore, SIGISMUND, the aforementioned King, graciously acceding to the said request, have deemed it right to approve, confirm, and ratify the above-written letter and its entire content with our royal authority, as we also approve, confirm, and ratify it hereby, establishing that insofar as it does not contradict the law, it should have and maintain due and perpetual force and durability. And in faith and testimony of this, we have signed this [letter] with our own hand and ordered it to be strengthened with the seal of our Kingdom. Given in Kraków on the twenty-fifth day of the month of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and eighty-eight, and the first year of our reign. Sigismund King [Note on the right:] P. Szczerbicz [On the reverse:] [Note:] For the land and plot called Łassanowskie [Note:] 1588 [Note:] No. 1 [Archival notes / signatures:] Nro 910; 751; 1588 / 25 m[artii]; round ink seal

S I G I S M V N D V S [S]igismundus Tertius Dei gratia Rex Poloniae, Magnus Dux Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogitiae, Livoniaeque etc. necnon eadem gratia designatus Rex Sueciae, Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae Princeps etc. Significamus praesentibus litteris nostris quorum interest universis et singulis. Exhibitas esse nobis litteras papireas ex Actis Terrestribus Leopoliensibus descriptas, continentes in se inscriptionem transportatoriam ex Actis Castrensibus Leopoliensibus donationis certae areae cum aedificiis, una cum horto, prato, aliisque attinentiis, per [Nobilem Annam Kunowska? per ...] vero Nobilis Laurentii Rosnowski secundarum nuptiarum consortem, Honestis Nicolao olim Generosi Casimiri Hynek familiari et Annae coniugibus, eorumque posteris factae. Supplicatumque est nobis, ut eas authoritate nostra Regia approbare, confirmare et ratificare dignaremur, quarum tenor sequitur: Acta sunt haec Leopoli in terminis Terribus Feria quinta post festum Sancti Adalberti Episcopi et Martyris proxima Anno Domini Millesimo, Quingentesimo, Octogesimo Quinto. Comparens personaliter coram Iudicio Actisque praesentibus Terribus Leopoliensibus Nobilis Anna filia olim Nobilis Adami Molfki, relicta vero olim Nobilis Lucae Kunowski primaerum et ad praesens Nobilis Laurentii Rosnowski secundarum nuptiarum consors legitima, cum eiusdem mariti sui uti tutoris sui praesentia et consensu personaliter assistente, ad infrascripta Acta praesentia contenta, a terra, districtu, iure, foro, iurisdictionibusque suis quibusvis propensiis et competentibus recedendo, eisdemque hac in parte renunciando, Huic autem iuri et iurisdictioni Terrestri Leopoliensi se cum bonis successoribusque suis omnibus, in toto, quoad actum et effectum inscriptionis praesentis spectat et pertinet incorporando ac transferendo. Transportando inscriptionem Castrensem Leopoliensium ex Actis eiusdem Castrensibus Leopoliensibus ad Acta praesentia Terrestria Leopoliensia, mente et corpore existens sana, amicorum suorum salubri usa et freta consilio, de liberationeque intra se praehabita, nec aliquo ductu errore seducta, palam, publice, expressisque verbis fassa est et recognovit: Quia ipsa totalia et integra bona sua haereditaria, videlicet domum cum area et horto, ac aedificiis omnibus, pomariisque in subcastro superiori Leopoliensi inter areas Ecclesiae ritus Graeci dedicationis Divae Parasceviae ab una, et olim Bogdanowski seu Niekraszowski nuncupati partibus ab altera sita et iacentia, una cum prato etiam haereditario penes Bielohoszcza villae Civitatis in luto, inter prata Episcopi Armeniaci Leopoliensis ex una et generosi Clementis Kluss partibus ab altera sita. Nec non et alio prato pod Olchowym Młynem inter Kotkowskie ab una, et Sienko Siodlarz ab altera partibus iacenti, per se modo quovis ab olim marito suo Nobili Luca Kunowski et eius successoribus acquisitis cum omni iure, dominio, proprietate, titulisque haereditariis, nec non cum omnibus eorundem bonorum attinentiis, pertinentiis, cohaerentiis, fructibus, redditibus, proventibus, censibus, obventionibus, ac emolumentis et utilitatibus generaliter universis et singulis, ad eadem ipsa bona, modo quovis spectantibus et pertinentibus, nihil praemissorum omnium pro se successoribusque suis reservando, seu excipiendo, ita ut generalitas specialitati et specialitas generalitati in nullo deroget, nec derogatura sit, proutque eadem sola tenuit, habuit et possidebat, illisque usufructuatur, Honestis Nicolao familiari olim Generosi Casimiri Hynek et Annae coniugibus ambobus in solidum, eorumque posteris, iure et titulo perpetuae et irrevocabilis donationis citra eversionem, dat, donat, inscribit, et resignat in effectu, dan[do] et admittendo iam exnunc hic coram Iudicio et Actis praesentia Terrestria Leopoliensia eisdem coniugibus et eorum posteris in eadem donata et resignata bona realem intromissionem et actualem pacificamque cum usufructu libero bonorum eorundem possessionem per Ministerialem Terrestrem sive generalem Regni ac Nobiles duos, quem et quos habere voluerit, illis cum eorum successoribus iam exnunc ad eam intromissionem et bonorum possessionem in loco bonorum apprehendendi de iure et a iudicio praedicto addictos et deputatos per eosdem coniuges eorumque successores, bona eadem illis modo praemisso inscripta et resignata tenendi, habendi, usufruendi, possidendi, iure et titulo haereditario, nec non dandi, donandi, vendendi, alienandi, commutandi, resignandi, et in suos ac suorum successorum usus quosvis beneplacitos libere convertendi, temporibus perpetuis. Nec debet ipsa recognoscens Anna Rosnowska et eius successores eisdem coniugibus vel eorum posteris, in eadem donata et resignata bona realem intromissionem, et actualem pacificamque cum usufructu libero bonorum eorundem possessionem, quovis modo denegare vel impugnare, nec admisso facto et data intromissione et possessione, ipsis tam per se quam per alias quasvis submissas et subordinatas personas suas in eisdem bonis iniuriari, vel pacificam possessionem praepedire. Quinimo debet et tenebitur prout se praesen[ti] de omnibus bonis suis ubivis locorum consisten[tibus], una cum suis successoribus eisdem coniugibus et eorum posteris inserere et submittit, data et admissa nulloque modo praepedita intromissione et possessione praefata, ipsos coniuges et eorum successores in eisdem bonis, ac eorum pacifico usufructu, ab omnibus qualiter damnis et impedimentis omnium personarum sexus, status, et conditionis cuiusvis existen[tium] earumve iuribus, et inscriptionibus quibusvis prioribus et posterioribus, debitis, ontulis, oneribus, reformationum dotis et dotaliciorum, advitalitatum, venditionum, commutationum, resignationum, et alius quibusvis perpetuis et temporalibus facto et facien[dis] Citatio[nibus], concitationibus, adcitationibus, mortis san[ctae?] brachi[i] Regalis, in ea bona opportan[?] et importan[dis], dum et lucris perlucris productis, et producendis, processibusque quibusvis iudiciariis in quocunque puncto et gradu iuris dependen[tibus]. Similiter vero ab omni singularium personarum impetitione iuridica, in omnibus Regni iudiciis et officiis, ing[ressu] omnibus iuridicis instantias semper et ubique totiens quotiens opus fuerit, per omnes Terrestres praescriptiones tueri, defendere, evincere, eliberare, intercedere, ac indemnes cum illorum successoribus reddere, bonaque eadem munda et libera facere et exonerare, nulla praescriptione Terrestri obstan[te] idque sub damnis Tribus ad simplicem verbi assertionem, absque quovis corporali iuramento per eosdem coniuges et illorum posteros taxan[dis] et eadem in casu conventionis praemissae, vere intromissionis et possessionis denegata, vel modo quovis praepedita tuitionisque et evictionis non praestitae, ad solvendum irremissibiliter, toties quoties opus fuerit succumben[dum] eiusmodi damnorum Trium tuitioni nullis modis, nec in Statuto descripto poenis Terrigis praescriptione evaden[dis]. Pro quibus quidem omnibus et singulis praemissis in praesenti inscriptione contentis non completis, damnisque Tribus de transgressis et succubitis ad solvendum decernendis, quos se praenominata recognoscens vel eius succesores eisdem coniugibus, vel eorum posteris citare permiserit sive permiserint, recens a terra, districtu iure, foro, iurisdictioneque suis quibusvis propriis et competen[tibus] receden[do] in officio Castrensi Leopoliensi in primo Citationis termino, tanquam peremptorio stare, iuri parere, directe iudicialiterque respondere, et inscriptioni praesenti peremptoriae satisfacere, adiudicatumque pati debebit et tenebitur, seque et succesores suos de omnibus bonis suis, una cum successoribus suis submisit et submittit. Terminum ipsum primum et alios subsequentes causae terminos, nullis omnino iudiciariis et extraiudiciariis exquisitis et exquirendis dilationibus, vera vel simplici infirmitatibus, a[b]senti[a] pro maiori, ad munimenta quavis ad exercitum successivum, ad annos discectionis, ad quietationem unde cunque reproducen[dam], affectationem deindo. Similiter nullis legalibus impedimentis, bello, conventione generali, particularique, aura pestifera, inundatione aquarum, fractione pontium, hostium in fines Regni incursione, temporumve quod absit interregni, absentia a Regno et aliis quotquot elictis, positione et consuetudine introducta obsequentur. Praeterea Reipublicae negotiis et servitiis, defectibus quibusvis ignorantia[e?]que excep[ti]onibus, protexationibus, contritiis, viribus praescriptionibus fatalis viden[tibus] Nobilis affectationi quidpiam iuridice peragen[dum] sive eius relatione eo nomine conficien[dum] reproducendorum minime subterfugien[do], evocatione, citatione, concitatione inordinat[a] intempestivis, ac etiam innotescentia inde emanat[a] indebite editione et positione, motione, apellationi, sententiarum reclamationi, carumve per adcitationes quasvis prosequutioni, nullis se cum successoribus suis tutan[do] et defenden[do], quibus se iam exnunc cum suis successoribus benevola inscriptione et submissione abdicat et abrenuntiat. Generaliter autem nullis excogitatis et excogitandis quae mens et ratio industriave humana adinvenire possit dilationi procrastinationi, evasioni, subterfugiis iurisque et facti remediis, coloribus prolongandi se se in praemissis cum sua posteritate protegen[do] sub sua et suorum successorum totius causae amissione. Quod memoriali iudicio soluto firmatum est. Nos itaque SIGISMVNDVS Rex praenominatus, supplicati[oni] praedictae benigne annuen[tes], suprascriptas litteras earumque omnia contenta, autoritate nostra Regia approban[dum], confirman[dum], et ratifican[dum] esse duximus, approbamusque, confirmamus et ratificamus praesentibus, decernentes eas quatenus non sint iuri contraria, vim debitae et perpetuae firmitatis habere et obtinere debere. Atque in eius rei fidem et testimonium praesentes manu nostra subscripsimus et Sigillo Regni nostri communiri mandavimus. Datum Cracoviae die Vigesima Quinta Mensis Martii Anno Domini Millesimo, Quingentesimo, Octogesimo, Octavo, Regni vero nostri Anno Primo. Sigismundus Rex [Nota kancelaryjna po prawej:] P. Szczerbicz [Verso:] [Nota:] Pro fundo et area Lassanowskie dicto [Nota:] 1588 [Nota:] No 1mo [Nota z archiwum / sygnatury:] Nro 910; 751; 1588 / 25 m[artii]; pieczęć tuszowa okrągła