Confirmation by King Sigismund III of the obligation of the Starosta of Lviv regarding the abolition of the market and unauthorized craftsmen

SIGISMUND. Sigismund, 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 together and to each one individually, whom it may concern. That there has been submitted to Us the paper letter written below, signed by the hand of [...] the Illustrious Stanisław Bonifacy Mniszek of Wielkie Kończyce, Starosta of Lviv, and reinforced with his seal, free of all suspicion, containing a certain obligation to execute decrees issued both by Us and by our predecessors of blessed memory, Kings of Poland, regarding the new market and the partacze [non-guild craftsmen] residing under the castle [...] decrees issued by the said Starosta, and for the successors [...] and We were requested in the name of the inhabitants of Our City of Lviv to deign to approve, ratify and confirm this letter with Our royal authority. Of the following content: Stanisław Bonifacy Mniszek of Wielkie Kończyce, Starosta of Lviv. I make it known [...] that since certain decrees of both the Kings of Poland of blessed memory, Their Majesties, my lords and benefactors, and [...] have followed regarding the abolition of the partacze and the new market under the castle and in the starosty manors, the execution of which the city [...] therefore, having brought them to execution and having received my power in my office from the chancellery of Their Royal Majesties of the decree, I declare and commit myself to abolish such partacze and the new market from the ground up by the feast of St. Michael the Archangel next in the current year. In which, so that in the future, both for other Starostas, my successors, and for the city, there may be peace, without any objection from me, it shall be permitted to demand the approval of the execution of the decrees of the happily reigning King His Majesty and his ancestors, the Kings Their Majesties, according to my obligation; if, however, I were to oppose this in any way again, then I shall be obliged to provide equal damages and costs of the dispute, which are henceforth assessed at two thousand zlotys. And if I were to be sued for this after the fourth [Sunday] of the Royal Majesty to our courts [?] on a peremptory term, then without any evasion, the return of the said damages shall be judged under a similar other sum. Which I also do with the insurance of both damages and costs of the process for the future for me and my successors to the burghers regarding the nuisance of the market at the Lviv castle, regardless of the current supervisor of these revenues and any of their lessees. Which script of mine, signed by my own hand and sealed with a seal [...] of the Starosta of Lviv. Done in Lviv on the twenty-fifth day of March in the Year of Our Lord one thousand six hundred and nineteen. Stanisław Mniszek, Starosta of Lviv, etc., by his own hand. [Place of seal] We, therefore, having best examined their just reasons and the fairness of the matter itself, approve, ratify and confirm the said letter [...] in all points, conditions and articles (as befits the law) [...], bringing to execution both by Us and [...] our Predecessor, the late King of Poland Stephen, recognizing as valid and accepted the decrees issued regarding these partacze and any craftsmen brought in [...]. We want these decrees to gain the proper force of validity. In witness whereof, we have ordered this document, signed by our hand, to be reinforced with the royal seal. Given in Warsaw, on the 13th day of May in the Year of Our Lord 1619. Of our reign in Poland the 32nd year, and in Sweden the 26th. Sigismund King [by his own hand] Sealed by order of His Royal Majesty by letter. Jakub Zadzik, Grand Secretary [by his own hand] [Seal: Suspended on a twisted red-white silk cord is the great royal seal of Sigismund III Vasa in a wax bowl with red wax.] [On the reverse:] Obligation of the Starosta regarding the abolition of the new market and the castle partacze. Year 1619. Confirmation of the historical insurance regarding the abolition of the new market and working craftsmen under the castle [...] made between the Starosta and the Lviv magistrate. [to bundle 217] N-S: 78. No. 78. FD. 22.

SIGISMUNDUS . Sigismundus Dei gratia Rex Poloniæ, Magnus Dux Lithuaniæ, Russiæ, Prussiæ, Masoviæ, Samogitiæ, Livoniæque, nec non Suecorum, Gottorum, Vandalorumque hæreditarius Rex. Significamus præsentibus literis Nostris quibus expedit universis et singulis. Exhibitas nobis esse literas papyraceas infrascriptas manu [...] Illustris Stanislai Bonifacii Mniszek de Magna Kunczyce Capitanei Leopolien[sis] subscriptas, sigilloque ipsius munitas, omnique suspicione carentes, continentes in se certam submissionem exequendi Decreta tam a nobis ipsis, quam a felicis recordationis prædecessoribus nostris Regibus Poloniæ ratione fori novi et artificum vagorum sub castro degentium factorum [...] Decretorum lata per memoratum Capitaneum factam, et pro Successoribus [...] supplicatumque nobis nomine Incolarum Civitatis Nostræ Leopolien[sis] ut literas easdem authoritate nostra Regia approbare, ratificare et confirmare dignaremur. Tenore tali sequentes: Stanisław Bonifacy Mniszek z Wielkich Konczycz Starosta Lwowski. Wiadomo czynie [...] yz gdy Decreta pewne tak s[więtej] pamięci Krolow Polskich Ich M[iłoś]ci Panow y Dobrodziejow moich, iako y [...] nastąpiły o zniesienie Partaczow et fori novi pod Zamkiem y w Dworzech Staroscinskich, ktorych Civitas exequutionem [...] tedy prziwiodszy one ad exequutionem, y moc swoie odebrawszy na urzędzie moiem z kancellaryey I[ch] K[rólewskich] M[iłości] Dekretowe Declaruię się y submituię takowe Partacze y Forum novum ad Festum S. Michaelis Archangeli proximè anno præsenti futurum funditus znieść. W czym aby et in posterum tum alijs Capitaneis successoribus meis, is Miasto miało pokoy sine ulla mea contradictione wolno będzie approbacyey według moiey submissiey Exequutionis Decretorum Szczęs[liwie panującego?] Krol[a] I[ego] M[iś]ci y Przodkow Kroliow I[ch] M[iło]sci domawiać się, ktora znowu wtrąconey moiey ieślibym w czymkolwiek sprzeciwiał, tedy powinien będę rowne dać damna et litis impensas, quæ ex nunc taxantur na dwa Tysiąca złotych. A ieślibym się dał o to pozwać post quartam Regiæ Maiestatis do Iudiciorum nostrorum magnati terminum peremptorium, tedy mancipati sine omni exceptione iudicatum iri restituendorum prædictorum damnorum sub simili alia summa. Co tez czynię z Assecuracią tam damnorum quam litis impensarum in futurum pro me et meis Successoribus Civibus ad Castrum Leopolien[se] fori prægravationibus non obstante moderno eorundem proventuum priore et quovis illorum Arendatore. Ktory script moy własną ręką podpisany y pieczęcią zapieczętowany ręko[...] Starostu Lwowskim. Działo się we Lwowie dnia dwudziestego piątego Marca Roku Panskiego Tysiąc Sześćsetne Dziewiętnastego. Stanisław Mniszek Starosta Lwowski etc. m[anu] p[ropria]. [L.S.] Nos igitur iustis eorum rationibus et rei ipsius æquitate optimè perspecta literas prætaxatas [...] in omnibus punctis, conditionibus, articulis (ut iuris est) approbamus, ratificamus et confirmamus [...] deducendi ad exequutionem tam nos, quam [...] Antecessorum nostrorum D. Stephani Regis Poloniæ ratione eorundem Vagorum et importatorum Artificum quorumcunque lata Decreta ratam et gratam se habere [...] Volumus decretaque ea omnia debitæ firmitatis robur obtinere debere. In cuius rei fidem præsentes manu nostra subscriptas Sigillo Regni communiri mandavimus. Datum Varsoviæ die XIII. Mensis Maii Anno Domini MDCXIX. Regnorum nostrorum Poloniæ XXXII, Sueciæ verò XXVI anno. Sigismundus Rex [m.p.] Sigillatum ad mandatum Sacræ Regiæ Maiestatis per literas. Iaco[bus] Zadzik Secr[etarius] M[agnus] [m.p.] [Pieczęć: Na skręconym czerwono-białym sznurze jedwabnym podwieszona wielka pieczęć koronna Zygmunta III Wazy w misie woskowej z czerwonym woskiem.] [Verso:] Submissio Capitanei de tollendo foro novo et vagis Artificibus Subcastrens[ibus]. A[nn]o 1619 Confirmatio roborationis historica de tollendo foro novo et laboratis Artificibus sub castro [...] Capitaneo et Magistratum Leopolien[sem] facta. [ad Fasc: 217] N-S: 78. N. 78. FD. 22.