Agreement between the Cathedral Chapter and the Lwów City Council regarding the purchase of the hospital provost's house

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, AMEN. For the eternal memory of the matter. We, the prelates and canons of the Lwów Metropolitan Church, together with the venerable Józef Przeszkowski, provost of the same Metropolitan Church and the Holy Spirit Hospital attached and incorporated thereto, who at that time held this provostry by the appointment of the illustrious municipal magistrate by virtue of the right of patronage belonging to it, as well as we, Piotr, mayor and councilors of the city of Lwów, as the true and legal patrons and collators of the aforementioned provostry, having previously obtained permission and authorization primarily from the ordinary of the place, of blessed memory the most illustrious and most reverend Lord Jan Zamoyski, our pastor, and now having received in the same matter the approval of permission and authorization from the most illustrious and most reverend Lord Jan Andrzej Próchnicki, by the grace of God and the Apostolic See the most venerable archbishop and our Lwów pastor, together all and unanimously acknowledge and announce to all and each one individually, to whom it should be known, present and future: That when the Holy and Most Serene Royal Majesty, our most gracious lord, moved by the zeal of piety for the increase of divine worship and for the establishment of a seminary and the education of youth, intended to found in this city a college of the venerable fathers of the Society of Jesus, caring for suitable buildings for the temple, schools, and residential quarters for the same college and for their convenience, he had already several years ago designated by certain means that some houses of the burghers, directly adjacent to the existing house of their residence, joined and adjoining in the perimeter of one quadrangle of a street or square, be purchased for them. Among these houses was also the house designated by the council magistrate, our ancestors, for the residence of the venerable Mr. Provost and in the course of time brought to a better state. Yielding therefore, as is fitting, to such a pious and excellent intention and will of the Most Serene King and our most gracious Prince for the spreading of God's glory in this city, and also satisfying the request of the venerable fathers themselves and the intercession of numerous most illustrious and powerful lords, senators, and dignitaries of the Kingdom, for this reason we have sold and alienated to the same fathers of the Society of Jesus [...] and the rights belonging to us to the same provostry, the aforementioned house with the entire square, located opposite the hospital church of the Holy Spirit, on one side next to the former corner school, and on the other side next to the wooden corner house of the heirs of the late Jan Kamieński, in accordance with the deed of sale drawn up and acknowledged in the presence of a public notary by our unanimous and joint will. Next, after joint deliberations, by the same action we concluded a contract with the famous Kosma Salvago, a Lwów burgher, regarding the purchase of his house, which is located in the same city on the street called Szewska, at the corner towards the house of the residence of the same fathers and next to [the house of] the surgeon Jan Kadzki. For this house, we paid and disbursed to the same Kosma in full the same price, and in the same amount as we received from the contract from the same fathers of the Society of Jesus, in the sum of six thousand eight hundred zlotys of Polish currency, and this is in accordance with the entry in the council records more extensively regulating this matter. However, since such a contract of purchase could not be concluded and finalized otherwise than after the summoning by the municipal magistrate of the Forty Men representing the entire commonalty of the city, and this primarily for the reason that it was necessary to transfer the same house of the aforementioned Kosma from municipal jurisdiction under ecclesiastical immunity, therefore, with the knowledge and consent of these Forty Men, we, the councilors, for the transformation of the aforementioned house into spiritual law and ecclesiastical immunity, under the following express reservations and conditions arranged and agreed upon with the present venerable Mr. Provost and with the entire Venerable Chapter of the lords prelates and canons, in our name and the name of the city, have permitted and do permit: That first and foremost, the rights and privileges of patronage, which we hold together with the same venerable lords prelates and canons, mutually established and confirmed by the Holy Royal Majesty – regarding the appointment of the aforementioned provostry, whenever it becomes vacant, to one of their number – shall be perpetually inviolable and preserved on both sides [...], and this house is to serve the same venerable Mr. Provost, present and future, for residence and for his free use, just as the former one, which was sold to the venerable fathers of the Society of Jesus; however, so that the Mr. Provost [...] for the time being shall not dare of his own will to exchange it with anyone else, sell, rent, or in any way alienate it to persons of any status and condition, nor designate it for any purposes, unless it happens with the knowledge [...] and consent [...] of the city for the time being. Nor shall he ever allow in this house, either in whole or in any part of it, the conducting of a tavern for any drinks or the practicing of crafts; it should enjoy the same immunity as that former house enjoyed. If in the course of time, for the more peaceful and comfortable residence of the same venerable Mr. Provost, another house could be acquired, especially one located closer to the metropolitan and hospital church (provided that the mutual consent of the venerable Mr. Provost and the entire chapter together with the municipal magistrate for the time being occurs for its acquisition), then from this house, which is meanwhile being bought from Kosma, the same venerable Mr. Provost or those who will succeed him shall withdraw back in favor of the city or the burgher acquiring it, and they shall accept the other by way of exchange. If, however, it were acquired for a lower price, then that which will be lacking to the price obtained for the former Koźmiński house [?], by the joint council and effort of both the chapter and the councilors, should be turned into a perpetual rent (wyderkaf) for the increase of the prebend of the same venerable Mr. Provost. To all this and the individual things arranged and agreed upon between us in the above-mentioned manner, primarily the most illustrious and most reverend Lord Archbishop himself graciously expressed his consent, and with the preservation of the confirmation of the Holy Royal Majesty, our lord, for which we are to strive, by his pastoral authority he also approved and ratified it in its entirety. We, whom this matter concerned, in good faith mutually promise each other and by this letter we holily and solemnly promise to consider all this and the individual things mentioned above as valid, permanent, and inviolable, with the exclusion of all deceit and fraud, to maintain, observe, and execute in practice for all time. Done in Lwów in the house of the Venerable Chapter of the lords prelates, in the presence of deputies from the council magistrate, on Wednesday before the Sunday of Oculi in Lent, in the Year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-six. In the presence of [...] the lords: Łukasz Kaliński, appointed Bishop of Nicopolis, suffragan and dean, Józef Przeszkowski provost, Jan Baranowski archdeacon, Melchior Ostrorowski custodian, Jan Solikowski, Piotr Brodowski, Jakub Skrobibewski, Wojciech Pełczyński preacher, Melchior Stephanioli, prelates and canons of the Lwów Metropolitan Church; as well as the famous and distinguished: Wolfgang Szőcz Wolfowicz, Erazm Syxt doctor of philosophy and medicine, mayor and councilor, Marcin Kampian, Paweł Dominik Hepner doctors of philosophy and medicine, Melchior Czołphowicz, Jan Alembek, Bartłomiej Uberowicz, Paweł Dominik Dziurdź mayors and doctors of medicine, Hieronim Zaydl, Mikołaj Siedmiradzki, Stanisław Kuczborski, Wojciech Korzeniowski doctor of philosophy and medicine, councilors of the city of Lwów. During the prosperous reign of the Most Serene Sigismund the 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, our most gracious lord, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign in the Polish Kingdom, and in Sweden the thirty-third. For greater credibility of all the above things, seals have been attached. Done and given in Lwów on the seventeenth day of the month of March, in the Year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-six. [On the reverse:] [Regest note from the 18th century:] Various rights of the Holy Spirit Hospital, as well as the provostry of the same, and the provostry tenement house. [Older note, inverted:] Right to the tenement house of the illustrious provost... [Archival markings:] No. 38 / F. 38

IN NOMINE DOMINI AMEN Ad perpetua[m] rei memoria[m] Nos praelati & Canonici Ecclesia[e] Metropolitana[e] Leopolien[sis] vnâ cű R[everen]do Iosepho Przeszkowski Ecclesia[e] eiusdē[m] et Hospitalis S[ancti] Spiritus Metropolitana[e] annexa[e] et incorporata[e] Praeposito qui tum temporis Praepositura[m] eam à Spectabili Magistratu Ciuili iure eorum Patronatus habebat, simul atq[ue] nos Petrus consul & Consules Ciuitatis Leopolien[sis] ceu veri ac legitimi Praepositura[e] praefata[e] Patron[i] et collatores praemissa et impetrata cum primis à Loci Ordinario pia[e] Memoriae Ill[ustrissi]mo ac R[everen]d[issi]mo D[omi]no Ioanne Zamoyski Antistite nostro concessione et facultate, nunc vero ad eandem actam ab Ill[ustrissi]mo ac R[everen]d[issi]mo Domino Ioanne Andrea Przóchnicki D[e]i et Apostolicae Sedis gratia Archiepiscopo et Pastore nostro Leopolien[si] colend[issi]mo in rem praesentem concessione et facultatis approbatione obtenta, coniunctim omnes atquē vnanimiter recognoscimus et significamus quorum interest vniuersis et singulis, praesentibus et futuris. Quòd cum Sacra et Serenissima Regia Maiestas Dominus noster Clementissimus zelo pietatis erga cultum diuinum augendam, et propter Seminarium instituend[um] ac erudienda[m] iuuentutis Collegiű R[everen]dum Patrum Societatis Iesu erigere in ea Ciuitate animum induxisset, prouidendo eidem Collegio de illius congrua aedificiorum Templi Scholaru[m], ac habitationum fabrica commoditatēq[ue] iam tum ante aliquot annos per certa media designauerat illis nonnullas ciuium domos priori domui residentiae ipsorum contigue vicinas, easque in vnius plateae seu Areae complexu quadrato connexas et adiacentes coemere. In quarum numero domus quoque pro mansione R[everen]di Domini Praepositi à Magistratu Consulari, maioribus nostris destinata et successu temporis in meliorem formam redacta huc vsque extabat. Tam pia[e] itaq[ue] et optimae intentioni ac voluntati Serenissimi Regis et Principis nostri Clementissimi propter D[e]i gloriam in hac ipsa Ciuitate propagandam morem vti decet gerentes atquē locum etiam dantes et RR. PP. ipsorum postulationi et plurimorum Illustrium ac Magnificorum Dominorum Senatorum, et Dignitariorum Regni interpellationibus, eapropter vendidimus et abfecimus [=abiecimus / abalienavimus?] eisdem Patribus Societatis IESV proque communium pietorum [?] et iurium ad ipsam Praeposituram nobis competentium, domum praedictam cum tota areâ ex opposito Templi Hospitalis Sancti Spiritus penes angularem quondam Scholam antiquam ab vnâ et haeredum olim Ioannis Kamieński ligneam domum acialem, parte ab altera sitam, iuxta Inscriptionem venditionis in praesentia Publici Notarij per nos concordi et vnanimi consensu factam et recognitam. Communicatis autem postmodum inter nos mutuis consilijs vna et eadem opera fecimus Contractum cum Famato Cosma Salvago Ciue Leopolien[si] pro emenda illius domo, qua[e] in Ciuitatis eiusdem platea Sutorum dicta acialiter versus ipsorum Patrum residentia[e] domum et penes Ioannis Kadzki Chirurgi sita est, pro qua eidem Cosmo simile quoque precium quale et quantum ab ipsis Patribus Societatis Iesu er[at] contractu accepimus in Summa Sex Millium et Octingentorum florenorum pecuniae polonicalis integre numerauimus et expendimus, idque iuxta Inscriptionem in Actis Consularibus Latius ea de re disponente. Quia tamē talis Emptionis Contractus aliter fieri et finiri non poterat nisi requisitis à Magistratu Ciuidi [=Civili] Quadraginta Viris totam Ciuitates [=Civitatis] communitatem repraesentantibus, eo potissimum respectu quòd eandem domum praefati Cosmae, ex Iurisdictione Ciuili sub immunitatem Ecclesiasticam transferre fuit necesse, propterea cum eorundem Quadraginta Virorum scitu et consensu, nos Consules, ad eam domum praefatā in ius Spirituale transmutationem et immunitatem Ecclesiasticam sub ijs expressis cautelis, et conditionibus cum ipso R[everen]do D[omi]no Praeposito moderno et cum toto Venerabili Dominorum Praelatorum et Canonicorum Capitulo, pactis et conuentis, nostro et Ciuitatis nomine consensimus et concedimus. Vt primo ac principaliter Iura et Priuilegia Patronatus qua[e] cum ipses [=ipsis] R[everen]dis D[omi]nis Praelatis et Canonicis, ad praedictam Praeposituram quotiens vacauerit, vni ex eorum gremio conferendam mutuo stabilita et per Sacram Regiam Maiestatem confirmata habemus, farcta tectaque vna perpetuo parte nostra ab vtraque seruentur et teneantur [...] ue ea domus ipsi R[everen]do Domino Praeposito nunc, vel pro tempore existenti, ad inhabitandum, et ad vsum eius beneplacitum quemadmodum illa prior, qua[e] Venerandis Patribus Societatis IESU vendita est, seruiat semper, ita tamen ne eam Dominus Praepositus [...]o tempore existens motu suo proprio, alteri cuipiam commutare vendere locare aut quouis modo cuiuscunque conditionis et status personis alienare, aut in quoscunq[ue] usus mittere praesumat, nisi id fiat cum scitu [...] et consensu [...] Civitatis pro tempore existentium. Neve vnquam in ea domo siue tota, siue in aliqua eius parte potuum quorumuis propinationes, aut artificiorum exercitia exercere permittat ni[si] eadem immunitate gaudere debet quibus illa domus prior gaudebat, si temporis successu propter quietiorem et commodiore[m] ipsius R[everen]di D[omi]ni Praepositi mansionem alia domus, qua[e] praesertim Metropolitanae et Hospitalari[s] Eccl[esi]ae propior sit acquiri poterit (dummodo et R[everen]di Domini Praepositi et Capituli totius vna cum Magistratu Ciuili pro tempore existen[ti] ad eam acquirendam mutuus accedat consensus) vt de hac, qua[e] interim à Cosma emitur, is ipse R[everen]dus D[omi]n[u]s Praepositus aut qui post eum successuri sunt, cedant rursus Ciuitati vel Ciui eam acquirenti, illam autem in vim permutationis acceptent. Sed si minore precio acquisita fuerit, tunc quicquid ad preciu[m] pro priore domo Kozminska [?] acceptum desiderabitur, illud communi tam Capitulari quàm Consulari consilio ac studio, ad censum reemptionalem perpetuum pro ipsius R[everen]di D[omi]ni Praepositi praebenda auctione conuerti debebit. Super qua[e] omnia et singula modo praemisso pacta inter nos et conuenta inprimis ipse Ill[ustrissi]mus ac R[everen]dissimus D[omi]nus Archiepiscopus benigne consensum suum prebuit, saluaq[ue] S[acrae] R[egiae] M[aiestatis] Domini nostri confirmatione per nos impetranda, authoritate sua quoque pastorali eadem in toto approbauit, et ratificauit. Nos verò quorum id neog[o]t[i]u[m] interfuerat, bona fide nobis promittimus scriptoque praesenti sanctè et solemniter promittimus, ea ipsa praemissa omnia ac singula, rata firma et grata dolo omni et fraude semotis, vsu tenere, obseruare, et exequi tempori in perpetuu[m]. Actum Leopoli in domo Venerabilis Capituli D[omi]norum Praelatorum in praesentia eorundem a Magistratu Consulari deputatorum (Feria Quarta ante Dominicam Oculi Quadragesimalem proxima, Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Vigesimo Sexto. Praesentibus [...] Dominis Luca Kalinski, Nominato Episcopo Nicopolien[si] Suffraganeo Decano, Iosepho Przeszkowski Praeposito, Ioanne Baranowsky Archidiacono, Melchiore Ostrorowski Custode, Ioanne Solikowski, Petro Brodowski, Iacobo Skrobibewski, Alberto Pelczynski Praedicatore, Melchiore Stephaniola Praelatis et Canonicis Ecclesiae Metropolitanae Leopolien[sis]. Tum et Spectabilibus ac Excell[ent]is Volphango Szőcz Vvolphowicz, Erasmo Syxt Philosophiae et Medicinae Doctore praetore & Consule, Martino Campiano, Paulo Dominico Hepner Philosophiae et Medicinae Doctoribus, Melchiore Czołphowicz, Ioanne Alnpek, Bartholomaeo Vberowicz, Paulo Dom[inico] Dziurdz Praetoribus et Medicin[a]e Doctori[bus], Hieronymo Zaydel, Nicolao Siedmiradzki, Stanislao Kuczborski, Alberto Korzeniowski Philosophiae et Medicinae Doctore Consulibus Ciuitatis Leopolien[sis]. Regnante feliciter Serenissimo Sigismundo Tertio Dei gratia Rege Poloniae, Magno Duce Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masouiae, Samogitiae, Liuoniaeq[ue] Nec non Suecorum, Gottorum, Vandalorumq[ue] haereditario Rege, D[omi]no D[omi]no nostro Clementissimo, Regnorum Poloniae Tricesimo Nono, Sueciae verò Trigesimo Tertio Anno. In praemissorum omnium maiorem fidem Sigilla sunt subappensa. Actum et Datum Leopoli die decima septima Mensis Martij, Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Vigesimo Sexto. [Verso:] [Nota regestowa z XVIII w.:] Jura Varia hospitalis S. Spiritus / Tum Praepositurae ejusdem / Tum Lapideae Praeposituralis [Nota starsza, odwrócona:] Jus ad Lapideam Perillustris Praepositi... [Oznaczenia archiwalne:] Nro 38 / F. 38