Privilege of King Sigismund III Vasa for Lwów establishing an annual fair for the feast of Saint Margaret

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. To all and each person concerned, we hereby announce by this our letter. That we, wishing to have regard for the benefit of our Lwów burghers and desiring that this city may achieve ever greater growth and multiplication of wealth day by day, have deemed it appropriate to add, establish, and announce to the aforementioned fairs, proclaimed to the said city by our most illustrious predecessors for every feast of Saint Agnes, formerly and continuously held, a new second one for the feast of Saint Margaret, lasting for three weeks, just as we hereby actually add, establish, and announce by this our letter, so that they may be celebrated perpetually every year on the same feast of Saint Margaret. Therefore, we wish that people of every status, rite, and condition shall have the full and free right to travel to our said city of Lwów for the aforementioned second fair, newly established by us, with all kinds of goods and items, to sell and buy them, to exchange things for things, and to conduct other such business, common and customary at public markets and fairs of the cities of our Kingdom, albeit without prejudice to neighboring cities. Those arriving at this fair and returning from it shall enjoy such safety as all those taken under protection and shielded by our safe-conduct letter are accustomed to enjoy, unless there should be those whom public laws do not allow to be favored and to whom it is justly denied to associate with honest people. In witness whereof, we have ordered this letter, signed by our own hand, to be affixed with the seal of the Kingdom. Given in Warsaw at the General Sejm of the Kingdom on the 11th [6th?] day of the month of April in the year of our Lord 1618, in the thirty-first year of our reign in Poland and the twenty-fifth in Sweden. [Below the text on the left, the monarch's signature:] Sigismund King [On the fold on the right, the official's signature:] Wojciech [...] [Seal:] [Great Crown Seal of Sigismund III Vasa in a metal case, on a white and red silk cord] [Verso:] [In red ink:] Second rubric, letter B, number 35. [In another hand:] No. 65. [Below:] 1618 / [...] fairs [...] feast of St. Margaret. D. / Acts, bundle 281 / Bundle 65. / Chest 19 / 1618. / 76 / 433.

SIGISMVNDVS Tertius Dei gratia Rex Poloniae magnus Dux Lithuaniae Russiae Prussiae Masoviae Samogitiae Livoniaeq[ue] nec non Suecorum Gottorum Vandalorumque. Haereditarius REX. Significamus praesentibus literis nostris quorum interest universis et singulis. Quia nos rationibus Civium nostrorum Leopolien[sium] consulere volentes cupientesq[ue] ut ea Civitas maiora in dies fortunarum incrementa et accessiones percipiat faciend[um] nobis esse duximus et ad enas [allas?] Nundinas Civitati praedictae a Serenissimis Antecessoribus n[ost]ris pro quolibet festo Sanctae Agnetis indictas usq[ue] antique et continuo receptas alteras de novo pro festo Sanctae Margarethae idq[ue] per tres septimanas duraturas adderemus institueremus ac indiceremus prout ex nunc de facto addimus instituimus et indicimus praesentibus literis nostris perpetuo singulis annis pro eodem festo Sanctae Margarethae celebrandas. Quamobrem integrum atq[ue] liberum esse volemus cuiuslibet status ritus et conditionis hominibus ad dictam Civitatem nostram Leopoliensem pro commemoratis praedictis alteris Nundinis a nobis de novo institutis cum cuiusvis generis mercibus ac rebus concurrere easdemq[ue] divendere ac mercari res pro rebus commutare et alia eius generis in publicis Regni nostri Civitatum mercatibus ac nundinis fieri usitata ac solita negotia exercere citra tamen praeiudicium vicinarum Civitatum. Venientes autem ad nundinas hasce atq[ue] inde rursus redeuntes ea utentur securitate qua omnes in patrocinium suscepti ac salvo conductu nostro protecti uti consueverunt nisi fortasse tales aliqui fuerint quos leges publicae fovere non permittunt et quibus bonorum hominum consortium merito denegatur. In cuius rei fidem praesentes manu nostra subscriptas sigillo Regni obsignari mandavimus. Datum Varsaviae in Comitiis Regni Generalibus die 11 [VI?] Mensis Aprilis Anno Domini MDCXVIII Regnorum nostrorum Poloniae XXXI Sueciae XXV. [Pod tekstem po lewej podpis monarchy:] Sigismundus Rex [Na plice po prawej podpis urzędnika:] Albertus [...] [Pieczęć:] [Wielka pieczęć koronna Zygmunta III Wazy w metalowej puszce, na sznurze jedwabnym biało-czerwonym] [Verso:] [Czerwonym atramentem:] Rubrica Secunda Litt. B. Nro 35. [Inną ręką:] Nro 65. [Poniżej:] 1618 / [...] Nundin[arum] [...] festo S. Margarithae. D. / Act. Fasc. 281 / Fasc. 65. / Arca 19 / 1618. / 76 / 433.