Bull of Pope Urban VIII commissioning officials to resolve a dispute between the Lviv Curia and the city

Urban, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, to the [venerable brothers... or their vicars general in spiritual matters:] [officials] of Kraków, Kamianets, and [...] Laodicea, greetings and apostolic blessing. The beloved son, the fiscal promoter of the archiepiscopal curia of Lviv, has presented to us in his petition that, having once acted for the defense of ecclesiastical dignity, which was publicly and insolently violated to the scandal of all the people by the councilors and commoners of the city of Lviv, he obtained the issuance and publication of a sentence of excommunication and interdict against the same councilors and commoners [...]. However, those councilors and commoners, not caring at all to settle the matter through at least a successful penance and the absolution obtained thereby and restoration [to the previous state], persisting in such an offense, brought it by way of complaint and appeal in the second instance before the face of our beloved son and Nuncio of the Apostolic See residing in those parts; the same Nuncio, proceeding invalidly and unlawfully, overturned the aforementioned sentence along with everything that resulted from it, and imposed other burdens on the archiepiscopal dignity, as well as on the aforementioned promoter in his final judgment issued in the second instance, from which judgment and burdens the said promoter appealed within the statutory time. A humble request was also made to us that we might wish to come to aid in the above matters with fatherly care through an appropriate legal remedy. We, therefore, desiring that justice of this kind be duly administered, and recognizing the state and essence of the matter and cases of this type as fully and sufficiently expressed in this letter, and also releasing the said promoter – solely for the purpose of achieving the effect of this letter – and considering him released from all sentences of excommunication, suspension, and interdict and other ecclesiastical sentences, censures, and penalties imposed by law or by man for any occasion or cause, if he were in any way bound by them, acceding to these requests, by apostolic letter we command your community or officials that you or one of you, having summoned those who ought to be summoned, hear and recognize this case and cases of this kind of appeal and invalidity due to wickedness and manifest injustice and restoration to the previous state against all grievances that the aforementioned promoter possesses and brings and wishes and intends to bring against those councilors and the city in connection with the above issues, together with all its incidental, dependent, resulting, and related matters and the entire main case, by our authority, and having resolved it, conclude with a due sentence. Furthermore, we grant to you and to one of you by apostolic authority by virtue of this letter full and free power to execute against the said magistrate and city what will be necessary, including summoning them by public edict, summarily and extrajudicially in the absence of safe access, and imposing prohibitions on you and whomsoever, as often and wherever it will be necessary under ecclesiastical [and monetary] censures and penalties, declaring that the disobedient and rebels have fallen into censures – while maintaining the form of the Council of Trent – aggravating them, re-aggravating them, and casting an interdict, invoking for this purpose the aid of the secular arm, if need be, and revoking according to law all attempts and innovations, if any have been made to the detriment of the above matters, as well as doing and performing other things necessary or otherwise useful in the above scope and around it. Notwithstanding the [constitution] of Pope Boniface VIII of holy memory, our predecessor, regarding one [day's journey], and the General Council regarding two days' journeys, provided that by virtue of this letter no one be drawn to court outside their city or diocese further than three days' journey, and all other apostolic constitutions and ordinances as well as anything else to the contrary. Given in Rome at Saint Peter's, in the year of the Lord's Incarnation one thousand six hundred and twenty-five, on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of January, in the third year of our pontificate. [In the lower left corner:] J. Canobius F. Gagnonus [Below the plica on the left side:] Victorinus [Under the plica on the left side:] Sub Vanni [On the plica on the right side:] [Calligraphic monogram:] O / Ottonus(?) M. Bernardi N. Accordiris [Seal:] [Lead bull of Pope Urban VIII hanging on a hemp cord: Obverse: images of the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul separated by a cross, above traces of the letters SPA SPE. Reverse: inscription in four lines within a beaded border: VR BANVS • PAPA • • VIII •] [Verso:] [At the top:] Victorinus [Center:] [Modern signature on a sticker:] 21 / r. XXIX / 16 [Pen trials / drawing of flourishes]

Urbanus ep[iscop]us servus servorum Dei [venerabilibus fratribus ... seu eorundem in spiritualibus vicariis generalibus] Cracovien[si], Camenecen[si] et [...] Laodicen[si] [Officialibus] salutem et apostolicam ben[edictionem]. Sua nobis dilectus filius Promotor fiscalis Curiae archiepiscopalis Leopolien[sis] petitione monstravit, q[uo]d al[ia]s ipse pro vindicanda ecclesiae dignitate p[e]r Consules ac Communitatem Civitatis Leopolien[sis] publice et temere cum totius populi scandalo praetensa sententiam excommunicationis et interdicti contra eosdem Consules et Communitatem eximaria [!] amodo fari et promulgari obtinuit. Verum ipsi Consules et Communitas de negotio per poenitentiam saltem simulatam indeque obtentam absolutionem et restitutionem [in integrum] minime curantes, huiusmodi scelere satagentes, eam per viam gravaminis et appellationis coram dilecto filio nostro et Sedis Apostolicae Nuntio in partibus illis commorante in secunda instantia pertraxerunt, qui quidem Nuntius nulliter et de facto procedens, dictam sententiam cum omnibus inde sequutis revocavit et alia gravamina Archiepiscopali Dignitati necnon minusque dicto Promotori sua diffinitiva sententia in secunda instantia lata intulit, a quibus sententia et gravaminibus pro parte dicti Promotoris adhuc infra legitima tempora appellatum. Nobis q[uo]que humiliter supplicatum extitit, ut ei in praemissis de opportuno iuris remedio subvenire paterna sollicitudine curaremus. Nos igitur, huiusmodi iustitiam ut decet ministrari cupientes ac statum et merita causae et causarum huiusmodi praesentibus pro plene et sufficienter expressis habentes, eundemque Promotorem a quibusvis excommunicationis, suspensionis et interdicti aliisque ecclesiasticis sententiis, censuris et poenis a iure vel ab homine quavis occasione vel causa latis, si quibus quomodolibet innodatus existit, ad effectum praesentium dumtaxat consequendum harum serie absolventes et absolutum fore censentes, huiusmodi supplicationibus inclinati, fraternitati vestrae sive Officialibus per apostolica scripta mandamus, quatenus vos vel alter vestrum, vocatis ad id qui fuerint evocandi, eam et causas appellationis et appellationum huiusmodi nullitatisque et nullitatum ex tribus iniquitatis et notorie iniustitiae ac restitutionis in integrum, adversus quaevis praeiudicialia de quam et quas dictus Promotor contra eosdem Consules et Civitatem super praemissis habet et movet, movereque vult et intendit, una cum omnibus suis incidentibus, dependentibus, emergentibus, connexis et totoque negotio principali auctoritate nostra audiatis et cognoscatis, ac decisis fineque debito terminetis. Nec minus vobis et vestrum alteri dictos Consules et Civitatem exequutionem quae opus fuerit et per edictum publicum constans to summarie et extraiudicialiter de non tuto accessu citandi vosque ac quibus quoties et ubi opus fuerit et sub censuris et poenis ecclesiasticis [et pecuniariis] inhibendi inobedientesque et rebelles per censuras incurrisse servata forma Concilii Tridentini declarandi, aggravandi, reaggravandi et interdicendi auxiliumque brachii secularis ad hoc si opus fuerit invocandi ac attenta et innovata quaecumque, si qua sunt in praeiudicium praemissorum, prout de iure fuerit revocandi ceteraque in praemissis et circa ea necessaria aut alias quomodolibet opportuna faciendi et gerendi plenam et liberam apostolica auctoritate tenore praesentium concedimus facultatem. Non obstantibus felicis recordationis Bonifatii Papae VIII praedecessoris nostri de una et Concilii generalis de duabus dietis, dummodo non ultra tres dietas quis vigore praesentium extra suam Civitatem vel dioecesim ad iudicium non trahatur, aliisque constitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis ceterisque contrariis quibuscumque. Datum Rome apud Sanctum Petrum Anno Incarnationis Dominice Millesimo Sexcentesimo Vigesimo quinto, Quarto decimo Kalendas Januarii, Pontificatus Nostri Anno Tertio. [W lewym dolnym rogu:] J. Canobi[us] F. Gagnonus [Poniżej pliki z lewej strony:] Victorinus [Pod pliką z lewej strony:] Sub Vanni [Na plice z prawej strony:] [Kaligraficzny monogram:] O / Otton[us?] M. Bernardi N. Accordiris [Pieczęć:] [Wisząca na sznurze konopnym ołowiana bulla papieża Urbana VIII: Awers: wizerunki głów św. Piotra i Pawła przedzielone krzyżem, powyżej ślady liter SPA SPE. Rewers: napis w czterech wierszach w obwódce perełkowej: VR BANVS • PAPA • • VIII •] [Verso:] [U góry:] Victorinus [Środek:] [Współczesna sygnatura na naklejce:] 21 / r. XXIX / 16 [Próby pióra / rysunek zawijasów]