Donation of the Lwów (Lviv) vogtship and judicial fines by King Sigismund III Vasa to the city of Lwów

[Sigismund?] the Third, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, etc., and also hereditary KING of the Swedes, Goths, and Vandals. We hereby announce to all and each person concerned, through this our letter. Since we, always keeping in mind the proven loyalty of the faithfully subject burghers of our city of Lwów and desiring its greater growth day by day, so that we might, with all care and diligence, enlarge and bring to a better state this city as a border town, exposed and subject to enemy invasions, at the request of the senators, advisors, and land deputies gathered at the current General Crown Sejm, made to us in the name and on behalf of our aforementioned city, we have deemed it necessary to give, grant, and turn to the benefit of the city two parts of the fines arising from major cases, specified in a certain privilege issued by the once most serene Władysław, our predecessor, in the year one thousand three hundred and seventy-eight to our aforementioned city of Lwów for the vogtship, and excluded and reserved for us. And since those two parts of the fines bring a meager and uncertain income, and the burghers and inhabitants of the said city have persisted in their ancient and uninterrupted use; therefore, desiring to bestow upon the aforementioned city of Lwów our special grace for reasons moving our mind, those two parts of the fines for any crimes and offenses, arising from the vogtship to us or to any of our men appointed by us, in any way and for any reason, and by the power of the aforementioned privilege reserved for us and our successors, as specified in the aforementioned privilege of the holy memory of Władysław, our predecessor, we give, donate, grant, and incorporate for all time to our aforementioned city of Lwów for the perpetual use of the city, along with the entire and intact vogtship with all its appurtenances and dependencies, leaving or excluding nothing for us and our successors or any of our men from the said two parts of the fines, but giving, donating, granting, and perpetually incorporating all, entire, and intact rights of ours and our successors to the aforementioned city by the power of this privilege. Promising that we and our successors shall wish to preserve our city of Lwów and its present and future burghers and inhabitants in its vogtship and in all appurtenances of those two parts of the fines, donated to the city in the manner mentioned above, in peaceful and long-uninterrupted use, without anyone's opposition or any disturbance for all time. In witness whereof, we have ordered this letter, signed by our hand, to be sealed with the Crown seal. Given in Warsaw at the General Crown Sejm on the 25th day of February in the year of our Lord 1619, in the 31st year of our reign in Poland and the 26th in Sweden. [Signature:] Sigismund King [Under the fold on the right side:] Jakub Zadzik Secretary of His Royal Majesty, by his own hand. [Modern regest under the text on the right side:] Donation of two groschen [parts?] to the Lwów vogtship [Seal:] [Great Crown seal of Sigismund III Vasa in red wax in a metal case, suspended on a white-red silk cord]. [Verso:] [18th-century note:] Fifth rubric / No. 2. D. No. 10. [Note in red ink:] to bundle 105. [Signature:] No. 5 / 19 1/2 [?] [17th-century regest:] Privilege issued in the year of our Lord 1619 for two parts of the fines and the Lwów vogtship along with a guarantee. [Chancery note:] No. 5 [Archival note:] Letter A. No. 26. / Bundle 7 No. 23. [Oval ink seal:] ARCHIVE OF ANCIENT ACTS OF THE CITY OF LWÓW

[Sigismundus?] Tertius Dei gratia Rex Poloniae Magnus Dux Lithuaniae Russiae Prussiae Mazoviae Samogitiae Livoniaeq[ue] etc. Nec non Suecor[um] Gotthor[um] Vandalor[um]q[ue] haereditarius REX Significamus praesentibus l[iste]r[i]s n[ost]ris quorum interest universis et singulis. Quia nos Civitatis nostrae Leopolien[sis] Civium fideliter nobis subiectorum comendata[m] fidem semper habentes, ma[ioraq[ue]] in dies incrementa illius cupien[tes], ut dictam Civitatem tanquam finitimam hostium incursionibus obnoxiam atq[ue] expositam, omni studio et conatu ampliare, ad conditionemq[ue] meliorem reducere possimus, ad supplicationem Senatorum, Consiliariorum, ac Internunciorum Terrestrium, ad Conventionem praesentem Regni Generalem congregatorum, nomine et pro parte dicta Civitatis nostrae apud nos factam, duas partes poenarum pro causis magnis provenientium, in Privilegio certo per Ser[enissi]mum olim Vladislaum Praedeceßorem nostrum in Anno Millesimo Trecentesimo Septuagesimo Octavo praedictae Civitati nostrae Leopolien[si] super Advocatiam dato specificatarum, et pro nobis exceptarum reservatarumq[ue], dandas, conferendas et in usum Civitatis convertendas esse duximus. Quae quidem duae partes poenarum, quoniam exigui et incerti proventus sunt, Civitatis autem dicta Cives et Incolae in antiquo et continuo semper usu earundem extiterunt; Idcopro [= Idcirco pro?] memoratam Civitatem Leopoliensem singulari nostra gratia dotare ex rationibus animum nostrum permoventibus cupientes, in dicto Vladislai pia memoria anteceßoris nostri Privilegio eas duas poenarum partes, pro quibusvis criminibus et delictis, ex Advocatia ad nos, seu ad quemvis nostrum hominem per nos constitutum, quovis modo et ratione, ex quacunq[ue] occasione provenientes, et vigore praedicti Privilegij pro nobis et Succeßoribus nostris reservatas, dictae Civitati nostrae Leopolien[si] in usum perpetuum Civitatis convertendas, una cum Advocatia tota et integra cum omnibus ad eam pertinentibus adiacentijs et attinentijs, damus, donamus, conferimus, et perpetuis temporibus incorporamus, nihil pro nobis ac Succeßoribus aut quovis homine nostro, ex praedictis duabus poenarum partibus relinquendo aut excipiendo, sed omne, totum, ac integrum Ius nostrum et Succeßorum nostrorum, praesentis Privilegij vigore dictae Civitati dando, donando, conferendo, et perpetuo incorporando. Promitten[tes] nos et Succeßores no[stri] stros, Civitatem nostram Leopolien[sem] et eiusdem Cives et Incolas nunc et in futurum existentes, in eius Advocatia, et duarum partium poenarum attinentijsq[ue] omnibus, modo praemisso Civitati donatarum, pacifico et antiquitus continuo usu, sine cuiusvis renitentia et quavis impetitione conservare velle, temporib[us] perpetuis. In cuius rei fidem praesentes manu nostra subscriptas Sigillo Regni obsignari mandavimus. Datum Varsaviae in Conventu Regni Generali Die XXV Mensis Februarii Anno D[omi]ni MDCXIX Regnorum nostrorum Poloniae XXXI Sueciae v[er]o XXVI Anno. [Podpis:] Sigismundus Rex [Pod pliką z prawej strony:] Jac[obus] Zadzik Secr[etarius] R[egiae] M[aiesta]tis mp. [Regest współczesny pod tekstem z prawej strony:] Donatio duarum Großorum ad advocatiam Leopolien[sem] [Pieczęć:] [Wielka pieczęć koronna Zygmunta III Wazy w czerwonym wosku w metalowej puszce, zawieszona na biało-czerwonym sznurze jedwabnym]. [Verso:] [Nota XVIII w.:] Rubrica Quinta / N[umer]o 2. D. N[umer]o 10. [Nota czerwonym atramentem:] ad Fasc. 105. [Sygnatura:] N[umer]o 5 / 19 1/2 [?] [Regest XVII w.:] Privilegium Anno D[omi]ni 1619 super duas partes poenarum et Advocatiam Leopoliensem emanatum cum obtestatione. [Nota kancelaryjna:] N[umer]o 5to [Nota archiwalna:] Litte[ra] A. N[umero] 26. / Fasciculus 7ma N[umero] 23. [Pieczęć tuszowa owalna:] ARCHIWUM AKT DAWNYCH MIASTA LWOWA