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Confirmation by King Sigismund III Vasa of the statute of the coppersmiths' guild of the Halych Suburb in Lviv

Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Coppersmiths' guild of the Halych Suburb in Lviv
die XIX mensis Februarii Anno Domini MDCXVII · Warsaw (Varsaviae)

King Sigismund III Vasa approves the ordinance and articles of the coppersmiths' guild of the Halych Suburb in Lviv. The document regulates, among other things, issues of guild masses, relations between masters and journeymen, and penalties for absenteeism at craftsmen's meetings.

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SIGISMUND Third, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, and also hereditary King of the Swedes, Goths and Vandals. We hereby announce by this our letter to all and each one whom it may concern [...], that there has been submitted to Our Majesty [...] an article or ordinance of all coppersmiths of the Halych Suburb of our city of Lviv [...]: [Introduction and guild articles:] [...] mass for every week, one for the living, the second for the dead, to which priest [...] to pay [...]. [...] one and a half groszy for a treat, whoever of the brothers [...]. [...] elder and younger brothers, to respect the elder and with oaths [...]. To announce under penalty, if the lords judges are needed then under the lord's penalty [...], the guild one under the master's, and whoever does not go to the guild under the lord's penalty, then he should give 50 groszy, and at the office then he should give half a grosz, and when [...] not by oath then to the dungeon, and behind the seal [...] to give a penalty of one and a half groszy and to punish before the time. And if he did not go to the meeting, then the elder guildmaster [...] or the lords jurors shall designate [...], and this to the party [...], which is to be paid [...]. [...] to the meeting [...]. [...] to inform the journeymen beforehand [...]. Whoever [...] a servant [...] under penalties [...] and if they should break away [...]. [...] a master by the road, but he has [...] journeymen, then it is not fitting to suspend him [...]. [...] When a journeyman greets a journeyman arriving together to the city, then he is to give [...] for the first greeting, then this master is to give from the journeymen [...]. [...] a journeyman from a master [...] from master to master [...]. Whoever a journeyman ran to the city [...] then the lords jurors with the guildmasters [...]. Whoever finds a journeyman at work at a master's and has not paid, then the guild is to [...] and not to dismiss this journeyman to another master until he first pays [...]. [...] every coppersmith craftsman [...] is to be registered [...]. [...] is to be free from guild work [...]. [...] about theft [...] to hand over to the city law [...]. [...] about work [...] to the bathhouse [...]. [...] We, therefore, having graciously inclined to the requests of the aforementioned coppersmiths of the Halych Suburb of our city of Lviv [...], have deemed it right to approve and confirm the articles and their above-included ordinance in all and individual points, clauses, and articles [...]. Given in Warsaw, on the 19th day of the month of February, in the Year of Our Lord 1617, of our reign [...]. Sigismund, King [Signature of the secretary / chancellor:] [...] [Seal:] [Royal seal of Sigismund III Vasa, impressed in red wax in a natural wax bowl, suspended on a silk/hemp cord, depicting a crowned quartered shield with the Eagle and the Vytis, and a heart shield with the Sheaf coat of arms of the Vasa dynasty]. [On the reverse:] [Archival notes from the 18th–19th centuries in Polish and German, including:] Confirmation and ratification of the privilege [...] of the coppersmiths' guild [...]. Bundle [...] No. 2. Coppersmiths' guild.

Original wording — transcription

SIGISMVNDVS Tertius Dei gratia Rex Poloniæ, Magnus Dux Lithuaniæ, Russiæ, Prussiæ, Masoviæ, Samogitiæ, Livoniæq[ue], nec non Suecorum, Gottorum, Vandalorumq[ue] hæreditarius Rex. Significamus præsentibus literis nostris quorum interest universis et singulis [...], Quod oblatus est Maiestati Nostræ [...] articulus seu ordinatio universorum Calderariorum Suburbii Haliciensis civitatis nostræ Leopoliensis [...]: [Wprowadzenie i artykuły cechu w języku polskim:] [...] mszy na każdy tydzień, iednę za żywe, drugą za zmarłe, któremu kapłanowi [...] płacić [...]. [...] wargów groszy pułtora na roskosz, ktoby z braciey [...]. [...] braciey starszych y młodszych, starszego szanować y przysięgami [...]. Obwiescić pod winą iestli Panów Sądziow potrzeba to pod pańską winą [...], cechowa to pod Mistrzowską, a ktoby nie poszedł do cechu pod pańską winą, tedy powinien dać groszy 50, a na urzędzie tedy powinien dać pułgrosza, a gdy [...] nie przysięgą to do lochu, a za pieczęcią [...] winę dać po pułtora grosza, y przed czasem karać. A gdyby na schadzkę nie szedł tedy Mistrz Starszy [...] abo Panowie Juraci wyznaczą [...], a to stronie [...], która ma bydź zapłacona [...]. [...] na schadzkę [...]. [...] czeladzi przed tym opowiedzieć [...]. Kto by sługę [...] pod karami [...] a gdyby się przełamali [...]. [...] mistrza przy drodze, ale ma [...] czeladzi, tedy niego go zawieszać [...]. [...] Towarzysz gdy towarzysza przywita do miasta społem, tedy ma dać [...] na pierwsze powitanie, tedy ten mistrz ma z czeladzi dać [...]. [...] czeladnik od mistrza [...] od mistrza do mistrza [...]. Kto by do miasta przybieżał czeladnik [...] to panowie Juraci z cechmistrzami [...]. Kto by u mistrza w robocie zastał a nie zapłacił, tedy ma cech [...] a tego czeladnika nie odprawować do inszego mistrza, aż pierwey zapłaci [...]. [...] każdy rzemieślnik kotlarski [...] ma bydź wpisan [...]. [...] ma być wolny od robienia cechowego [...]. [...] o kradzież [...] oddać do prawa mieyskiego [...]. [...] o robotę [...] do łaźni [...]. [...] [Formuła konfirmacyjna po łacinie:] Nos itaq[ue] præfatorum Calderariorum Suburbii Haliciensis Civitatis Nostræ Leopoliensis [...] supplicationibus benigne inclinati, articulos ac ordinationem eorundem præinsertam in omnibus et singulis punctis, clausulis et articulis approbandam et confirmandam duximus [...]. Datum Varsaviæ, die XIX mensis Februarii, Anno Domini MDCXVII, Regnorum nostrorum [...]. Sigismundus Rex [Podpis sekretarza / kanclerza:] [...] [Pieczęć:] [Pieczęć koronna Zygmunta III Wazy, wyciśnięta w czerwonym wosku w naturalnej misce woskowej, zawieszona na jedwabnym/konopnym sznurze, przedstawiająca ukoronowaną tarczę czwórdzielną z Orłem i Pogonią oraz tarczą sercową z herbem Snopek dynastii Wazów]. [Verso:] [Noty archiwalne z XVIII–XIX w. w języku polskim i niemieckim m.in.:] Potwierdzenie y konfirmacya Przywileju [...] cechu Kotlarskiego [...]. Fasciculus [...] No 2. Cechu Kotlarzow.

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