Agreement between the Lviv Metropolitan Chapter and the Butchers' Guild regarding the sale of meat

Between Their Graces the Prelates, Canons, and the entire Reverend Chapter of the Metropolitan Church of Lviv on one side, and the Noble Guildmasters and the entire privileged Butchers' Guild in the city of Lviv on the other, such an agreement and resolution has been reached. The aforementioned Their Graces the Prelates, Canons, and the entire Reverend Chapter of the Metropolitan Church of Lviv, knowing how great its importance is and that public consent and necessity require that on the land around the [church] of Saint John in the Krakow Suburb (which is subject exclusively to the jurisdiction of the Reverend Chapter of Lviv) the local people should have [...] convenience in the sale and purchase of meat, therefore, by unanimous consent and their concordant voice, legally assembled at the general chapter, [they] allow the privileged Butchers' Guild of the city of Lviv [...] only exclusively, with the exclusion of all others [butchers?], to sell meat within the local deanery jurisdiction for all time, without ceasing [...], and appoint the local stall-holders [...] to sell there. Desiring that the aforementioned Lviv Butchers' Guild, in good [order], according to the wording of its laws [...], diligently ensure that loose people and those who have not learned butchery according to the art do not dare any longer in that place [...] and [...] [in the stalls meat and others in law] described [...]. But if there were to live within the local deanery jurisdiction such persons who would be found [...] suitable for the butcher's craft and worthy of admission to the guild, such a person the Lviv Butchers' Guild [...] by law and custom [...] shall be obliged to [...] admit to its ranks [...]. Nevertheless, now [...] the Reverend Chapter [...] and the Lviv Butchers' Guild [...] taxes [...] paid [...]. The Lviv Butchers' Guild [...] in Lviv, on the twenty-third day of March in the Year of Our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty-eight, during our general chapter. [Signatures on the left:] [Florian of Opatków Opacki?], canon and at that time dean [...] of the Reverend Chapter of Lviv [...] [Signature on the right:] Wojciech Cisowski, Lviv [and] Przemyśl canon of the Lviv metropolitan church [...], at that time sworn procurator of secular jurisdiction affairs, with his own hand. [Verso:] [Archival annotations:] Bundle 26 [...] Agreement with the Reverend Latin Chapter [...] of Lviv. Year of Our Lord 1658. Item No. 1658 No. 231 No. 13.

Miedzy Ich M[o]sciami PRALATAMI KANONIKAMI y wszytką WIELEBNA KAPITVLA KOSCIOLA METROPOLITANSKIEGO LWOWSKIEGO z iedney, a Slachetnemi Cechmistrzami y wszytką Cechą Rzezniczą w Miescie Lwowie będącą uprzywileiowaną z drugiey strony stała sie Transactia y postanowienie takowe. Pomnieniem Ich M[oś]c Pralaci Kanonicy y wszytka Wielebna Kapituła Koscioła Metropolitanskiego Lwowskiego wiedząc ze natym wiele nalezy y tego zgoda publiczna wyciąga potrzeba, aby na Gruncie około Iana s[więtego] na Przedmiesciu Krakowskim (ktory iest mere Iurisdictionis Wielebney Kapituły Lwowskiey) będącym, ludziom tamtecznym w przedawaniu y kupowaniu mięsa [...] wygoda była, tedy ex unanimi Consensu et concordi Suffragio suo, in Generali Capitulo legitime congregati uprzywileiowaney Ciesze Rzezniczey Miasta Lwowskiego [...] tylko szczegulney exclusiue quoad utgos omnes [jathkarzom?] na tamtey Iurisdictiey Dziekanskiey Mięsa przedawac perpetuis temporibus sine cessatione [...] pozwala, y iatkasze tamte [...] przedawać tamze naznacza. Tego chcząc aby pomieniona Cech Rzeznicza Lwowska, w dobrym według opisania Praw swoich [...] pilnie przestrzegała tego, iakoby ludzie luźni y ktorzy sie Rzeznictwa ex arte niewyuczyli, niewazyli sie więcey na tamtym mieyscu [...] y [...] [jatkach mięsa i inszemi w Prawie] opisanemi [...]. Lecz iezeliby sie na tamtey Iurisdictiey Dziekanskiey mieszkający znalezli tacy [...] zdatni do Rzemiosła Rzezniczego y godzien przyjęcia do Cechy, takowego Cech Rzeznicza Lwowska [...] de Iure et consuetudine [...] gremium suum powinna będzie [...] przyiąć [...]. Wszakze teraz [...] Wielebney Kapituły [...] a Cech Rzeznicza Lwowska [...] podatki [...] oddawała [...]. Cech Rzeznicza Lwowska [...] we Lwowie dnia Dwadziesiątego Trzeciego Marca Roku Pańskiego Tysiąc Sześćset Pięćdziesiątego Ósmego pod czas Kapituły naszey Generalney. [Podpisy po lewej:] [Florianus de Opatkow Opacki?] Canonicus et pro tunc Decanus [...] Venerabilis Capituli Leopoliensis [...] [Podpis po prawej:] Albertus Cisowski Leopoliensis Premisliensis Canonicus Ecclesiae Metropolitanae Leopoliensis [...] Procurator Causarum pro tunc Jurisdictionis Saecularis Juratus m[anu] p[ropria] [Verso:] [Adnotacje archiwalne:] Fasc[iculus] 26 [...] Concordia cum V[enerabili] Capitulo Latino sud Leop[oliensi] Anno D[omi]ni 1658. Nro Pos[iti] 1658 No 231 No 13.