Establishment of the reeveship in Dunajów by Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski for Marcin Żabka

JAN DYMITR SOLIKOWSKI OF SOŁK, by the grace of God Archbishop of Lwów, together with the Venerable Chapter of the Holy Metropolitan Church of Lwów, namely the most reverend: Stanisław Strzyiński, Dean; Jakub Wierzbięta; Stanisław Dembiński; Piotr Borzobohaty Krasiński; Wojciech Perliczka, Official; Jan Herbort, Canon Cantor; Tomasz Domaniewski, at this time Procurator of the Venerable Chapter; Walenty Grzegorzewski and Kasper Starszewski, prelates and canons gathered at the general chapter. By our present letter, we wish to make known and manifest to all whom it may concern, both present and future: that we, desiring the good of our archiepiscopal table, and to maintain all and individual [estates], and above all our town of Dunajów, in proper order, praiseworthy justice, and the performance of other municipal functions – since this town of Dunajów, from its old foundation, does not have a rightful reeve who would prudently judge the affairs and interests of the burghers, maintain the burghers in good and decent order, and watch with care over the prosperity and benefit of the inhabitants of the said town, through which difficulties and burdens sometimes arise and fall upon us and our Dunajów starosta – therefore, having recognized and having had well recommended to us the prudence and skill in managing affairs of the noble Marcin Żabka, who previously for many years performed the office, that is, the stewardship and management of the estates and revenues of the town of Dunajów and the villages belonging to it, not without our benefit and without anyone's complaint; furthermore, free [and] inviolate to the law and privilege, or the laws and privileges granted by our predecessors to the inhabitants of the town of Dunajów; only for judging ordinary cases belonging by law to the reeve's office and administering justice to everyone without deceit, as well as performing other matters belonging both to the good order and peace of the burghers and to the benefit of us and our successors – we have deemed it right to appoint and establish the same Marcin Żabka, a man distinguished by virtue and integrity, well-deserving to us, as the reeve of Dunajów by our new foundation, and by these presents we give, establish, and found [it], after the renunciation confessed for eternal times. Entrusting to the same Marcin and his successors the reeve's office in the said town to be performed with full right, properly and duly, to recognize and judge the affairs of any reeveship together with others belonging to his office by virtue of the same reeve's office in the said town at the place of his residence with such authority, law, and process as is observed elsewhere according to the provision of Magdeburg law; from whose verdict or verdicts, an appeal to us and our successors shall be free to everyone. And so that he may sufficiently cope with and be able to perform this function and reeve's office entrusted to him, for the proper performance of the same and the legal duties of the reeve's office, we give and found in full, have given and founded two hides of our land, together with the meadows belonging to the said hides, on the land of our town of Dunajów, around [...] of the hides on individual fields, the plot [...] on the boundary by the Faluwek roads [...] and meadows at the place called Qualiow designated, that [...] to two [commissioners?] from our Chapter the width and length also for the certainty of the hides and meadows, the confirmation of the said hides to be measured, to the same Marcin, as now established by the above-mentioned law, his successors and the reeve for the time being, to incorporate, hold, and possess the reeveship for eternal times, with all benefits and those derived from them in any way, reserving no rents or fruits and revenues from them to us and our successors. But furthermore, we [grant] him the penalty called 'krzeczka' and the third penny from other municipal fees. Also the right and freedom to fish every week in the same way as other inhabitants of the same town are allowed to fish; also one [grinding] in our mill, in whichever he wishes, to grind grain and malt for his own use and measure, we give and allow for freedom. To the same, we also designate a plot of our land for the construction of a reeve's house, as large as it is, together with a garden at the place Dunajowce near the Ostrzel pond, situated between my manor and the Kiev one. Then also, he will be allowed to erect buildings for setting up a slaughterhouse and a brewery; however, in such a state of affairs, we reserve the jurisdiction belonging and due to us and our successors together with the Lwów chapter there, due to the right of the land and the superiority of justice. And we want it to always be inviolate and whole, so that the contemporary and each-time reeve serves and is obedient to the will of us and our successors. Explicitly in these legal matters, he shall likewise owe his personal assistance to the prelates and canons [...] of the Lwów metropolitan [church] and to us. From his own possessed hides, he shall give the manual tithe of every kind to the provost of Dunajów [...] let him give [...] in the revenues [...] of the established tithes for the performance of the duties imposed upon him recognized [...] we allow in the performance of these judicial duties, in his use of these reeve's estates [...] we preserve, until the end of life [...] and in the name of us and our successors [we guarantee] that we will not disturb him in this use and collection of benefits from all of the above, as long as he lives. In witness whereof our seal [...] and the Chapter's has been impressed and I have signed with my own hand. In the presence of the noble lords Stanisław Kozicki [...], Zygmunt Solikowski, Paweł Skotnicki, [...] Piotr Gosławski, Jan [...] and many other credible gentlemen of our court, and me, Bartłomiej Bytunowski, by the authority of the Holy Apostolic See and the curia of the affairs of this same Most Serene Lord of ours, a public notary, called to the above [and] in the presence of [...] written down. Done and given in Lwów at the General Chapter of the Metropolitan Church of Lwów on the Saturday before the nearest Sunday Laetare, in the Year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and ninety-two 1592. Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Archbishop of Lwów, with his own hand Stanisław Strzyiński, Dean Jakub Wierzbięta, Provost Tomasz Domaniewski, Procurator of the Venerable Chapter of Lwów [Seal: on yellow-red silk cords, wax in a wax bowl, partially damaged] [On the reverse:] Erection of the Dunajów reeveship

IOANNES DEMETRIVS SOLIKOWSKI A SOLKI Dei gr[ati]a ARCHIEP[ISCOPV]S Leopolien[sis] vna cum V[ene]r[abi]li Capitulo S[an]ctae Ecclesiae Metrop[oli]t[a]nae Leopolien[sis] v[i]del[ice]t R[everen]dis Stanislao Strziynskj Decano, Iacobo Wjerszbien[c]kj, Stanislao Dembińskj, Petro Borzoboh[at]y Krasinskj, Alberto Perliczko Officiali, Ioanne Herborto Canonico Cantore, Thoma Domanijowskj ad p[rae]sens V[ene]r[a]bilis Cap[itu]li Procure, Valentino Grzegorzski et Casparo Starszewski, Praelatis et Canonicis ad generale Capitulum congregatis. Praesentibus lais nostris vniversis quibus expedit praesentibus et futuris notum et manifestum esse volumus. Quia nos cupien[tes] bona mensae n[ost]rae Archiep[iscop]alis, cum omnia et singula, tum praecipue oppidu[m] n[ost]r[u]m Dunayow, in bono ordine, lau[da]biliq[ue] iustitia et aliarum functionum civiliu[m] administratione conservare, quandoquidem istud oppidu[m] Dunayow ex fundatione antiqua rectum non habeat Advocatum, qui causas et negotia civiliu[m] prudenter cognoscat, ciuesq[ue] in bono et decenti ordine foveat, curansq[ue] esse cum vi[t]a ac incolarum oppidi praefati vtilitate velit. Vnde quandoq[ue] difficulteates et molestia nobis n[ost]risq[ue] Capitaneo Dunayowien[si] oriuntur et accidunt. Proinde habentes perspectam et nobis bene comendatam in rebus agendis prudentiam, simul ac dexteritatem Nobilis Martini Zabka, qui antea complurib[us] annis off[ici]o v[i]del[ice]t Capitaneatus et Administr[ati]o[n]is bonor[um] et proventuum oppidi Dunayow, villarumq[ue] ad id spectantium, non sine vtilitate n[ost]ra, sine cuiusq[ue] querela functus est. De cetero im[m]unes rata[m] inri et privilegio seu iuribus et privilegiis [per Antece]ssores n[ost]ros incolis oppidi Dunayow datis. Duntaxat ad cognoscen[das] causas faciles off[ici]o Advocatiali iure competentes iustitiamq[ue] vnicuique doloque administran[dum], et alia negotia tam ad [bon]um ordinem et quietem civium, quam etiam n[ost]ram successorunq[ue] n[ost]ro[rum] vtilitate[m] spectan[tia] obeunda, eundem Martinum Zabka virtute et probitate praestantem virum de nobis bene meritum Advocatum Dynajovien[sem] preficiendu[m] et constituendu[m] de nova fundatione n[ost]ra duximus, damusq[ue], constituimus, et fundamus p[rae]sentib[us] resigna[to] fassis temporibus perpetuis. Comittentes eidem Martini et successoribus eius Offitium Advocatiale in eodem oppido pleno iure debite et compete[n]ter exercere, causas cuiusc[un]q[ue] advocaturam vnacumq[ue] alias ad offitium suum eadem reumiolen[ti] offo[?] Advocatiali pertinen[tes] in eodem oppido in loco residen[tia] sua cognoscere et iudicare eiusmodi authoritate iure et processu quemadmodum alibi ex iuris Maydeburgen[sis] praescripto observatur, a cuius decreto seu decretis ad nos successor[es]q[ue] n[ost]ros vniusc[uiusque] libera erit appellatio. Vt autem huic sibi comissae Advocatiali functioe et officio sufficienter intendere possit et valeat, pro eodem debite administrando ac iuridice obeundo resignata[m] officialis officio damus et fundamus viginti penitus dedimus ac fundavimus duos ager[es] lan[eos] fundi n[ost]ri, vna cum pratis, ad dictos agros spectan[tibus], in fundo oppidi n[ost]ri Dunayow circa [...] agros in campis singulis sors [...] na przetyce przy faluwkowy[ch] viis [...] et pratis in loco dicto Qualiow dicta, id con[...] duos Thomeinos ex Cap[itu]lo n[ost]ro latitudinem ac longitudinem etiam pro certitudine agrorum et pratorum confirmatio praedictorum laneo[rum] confignandas ipsi Martino nunc vtpote p[rae]m[i]sso iure constituto eius successoribus et pro tempore existen[ti] Advocato pro Advocatia perpetuo incorporand[um], tenere et possidere, cum omnib[us] vtilitatibus et eisdem quavis proveniun[tibus], nullas ex ijs census seu fruchtus et proventus nobis et successoribus n[ost]ris reservan[do]. Sed praeterea eidem poena dictam kraeczka et de alter foringae derectu civilibus tertium grossum percipien[dum]. Item ius ac quas piscuris his in qualiq[ue] hebdomada modo eodem vn alijs eiusdem oppidi incolis permittit piscan[di]. Vnum etiam in molendino n[ost]ro in q[u]ocunq[ue] velit frumenta et braxafina p[ro] sua fentione mensura moliendi, damus et concedimus libertatem. Eidemq[ue] pro edificanda domo Advocatiali assignamus aream fundi nostri quanta est, vna cum borto in loco Dunayece iuxta piscinam Ostrzel miez praedium meum et kiyewskj sitt[am]. Tum etiam pro locanda lanione et braxatorio aedificia construere liberum est illi, itaq[ue] his ita stantibus Nesolominos nobis et sucecoribus n[ost]ris simul a vnt[?] Cap[itu]lo Leopolien[si] ibidem competen[tia] ac debita iurisdictione[m] respectu iuris fundi et superioritatis iustitie reservamus. Semperq[ue] salua et illaesam esse volumus, ita et modernus et pro tempore exn[ti]s Advocatus n[ost]r et successoru[m] n[ost]ro[rum], serviat obediatq[ue] voluntati. P[er]expressum au[tem] in his iuridicis similiter Praelatorum et Canonicorum [...] Metropol[i]t[a]nae Leopolien[sis] n[ost]risq[ue] propria sua praestare tenibitur assissten[tia]. De agris vero possessionis sua[m] Decima manualem omnis generi Praeposito Dunajovien[si] [...] praestet [...] dabis proventu[m] in permij ove[l?] secundis terris[?] Leopalien[sis] decimis[?] p[rae]stabilitis ad tenendu[m] ea sibi iniuncta opera recogn[ita] [...] concedamus in obeundis ipsis munijs iudicialibus, eum in vsu fructu bono[rum] ipsorum Advocatialiu[m] Taenar no[?]centus conservamus, ac vltima vita [...] et pro nobis et successoribus n[ost]ris, quod ipsum in ea fruchoe et usu fenctu omniu[m] praemissor[um] quoad vixerit non perturbamus. In cuius rei fidem sigillum n[ost]r[u]m [...] et [Capituli] impressum manuq[ue] mea propria subscripsi. Presentibus Generosis D[omi]nis Stan[islao] Koziczkj [...] Sigismu[n]do Solikowskj, Paulo Skotnjczkj, coquillo [...] Petro Goslawskj, Ioanne [...], et alijs qua[m] plurimis fide dignis sua[?] Illu[strissi]ma[e] D[omi]n[i] n[ost]ri familiaribus et me Bartholomaeo Bytu[n]owskj Sacr[a] [Apostolica] authoritatibus ac Cur[iae] Cau[sa]r[um] eiusd[em] Ill[ustrissi]mi D[omi]nj n[ost]ri p[u]b[li]co notario ad praemissa rogato coram[...] script[o]. Actum et Datum Leopoli in Capitulo G[e]n[er]ali Eccl[esi]ae Metroph[oli]t[a]nae Leopolien[sis] Sabbato ante D[omi]nicam Laetare proximo Anno D[omi]nj Millesimo Quingentesimo Nonag[esi]mo Secundo 1592. Ioannes Dem[etrius] Solikowski Archiep[iscop]us Leop[oliensis] m[anu] p[ro]p[ri]a Stanislaus Strziy[nski] D[ecanus] Iacobus Wierzbie[nski] P[raepositus] Thomas Domanijowskj Procurator V[enerabilis] Capituli Leopolien[sis] [Pieczęć: na jedwabnych żółto-czerwonych sznurach, woskowa w misce woskowej, częściowo uszkodzona] [Verso:] Erectio Advocatiae Dunajoviensis [oraz późniejsze noty archiwalne i rejestracyjne, m.in. z datą 1592]