Approval by King John Casimir of the ordinance of the college of assessors of the Magdeburg law of the city of Lviv

[f. 1r] JOHN CASIMIR, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, Smolensk, and Chernihiv, and also hereditary KING of the Swedes, Goths, and Vandals. We make known by this Our letter to all and each person concerned that a document written on paper has been presented to Us, bearing the seal of the court of the Magdeburg law of Our city of Lviv, containing a resolution or a certain ordinance, and a petition has been presented to Us in the name and on behalf of the worthy assessors of the Magdeburg law of Our city of Lviv, that We might deign to approve and confirm said [ordinance] with Our royal authority. The wording of which document is as follows: In the name of the Lord, amen. In the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty-eight. We, Bartłomiej Dzerowicz, Bachelor of Arts, Jan Klemek, apothecary, the distinguished Andrzej Abrycjusz, Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine, Wojciech Gładysz, Guardian of the Laws, Paweł Borgan[?], Doctor [of Medicine?], Melchior Faszkowicz, Walenty Fosde[?], apothecary, Wawrzyniec Jasznicki, Starosta of Kozakow, Hieronim Wardosi[?], furrier, Andrzej Czechowic, apothecary, sworn assessors of the city of Lviv. To all and each person concerned, we make known and certify that We, chosen by God's calling and the authority of the Higher Power for the present office of assessor, considering that Our predecessors handed down to each other statutes and sanctions without the knowledge and consent[?] of the Higher Power, or as if from hand to hand to Us, which We, having accepted, just as in the given matter and circumstances of our [...], and as if following in their footsteps, by custom and ceremony [...], leaving to Our office and law, expressly for this or acting with the support of God's grace, these articles, both the manner of the ordinance for eternal [...] and [...] as [...]. [f. 1r, bottom] Article one. First of all, starting with the worship of God and pious matters, we wish that on holidays and more solemn feast days and Sundays [...] be praised, or mass be celebrated in the intentions [...] predecessors and colleagues from the venerable Senate and the metropolitan church were remembered, upon the gathering of the lords brethren for the offering [...], and after the lord wójt, the assessors following in their order, and those absent shall be punished with a fine of two groschen. Which groschen the last assessor in the order of calling, as the collector of assessor shillings, deposits into the chest. Of which he is to render an account if he fails in his office in this regard. Article 2. When a funeral happens for one of the assessors, the presiding lord judge, in the presence of one chosen from the body of assessors, shall send a summons by the bailiff, from where all assessors should arrive to accompany the funeral. Where all who are present in the city shall be obliged to gather and accompany said [funeral]; those absent, except for a legal and certified [impediment], shall be punished with a fine of three groschen. Article 3. For the support of [...] it is decided to celebrate one mass for the dead every Ember Days, sung at Our assessor altar, under penalty of one shilling for the scholars of each altar according to the agreement with the scholars [...]; the bailiff on the eve of the celebration [...] interested and they will be obliged to go to the offering, asking the Lord God with prayers for their relatives and friends. Those absent shall be punished with a fine of three groschen, with the preservation of a legal justification for absence. [f. 2r] Article 4. For the administration of justice, all assessors, by the duty of their office, shall endeavor to appear at the appointed hour (this, however, should not be understood as regarding deliberations on issuing a verdict in disputes), whenever the lord wójt designates through the bailiff or his deputy, besides this, for the administration of justice in the morning before the start of the court, they shall gather; for cases postponed on the eve of the trial towards [...] at any time according to the requirement of the coming case. The time for the administration of justice is established: in summer, namely from the feast of Easter to the feast of St. Michael, two or three hours after sunrise; in winter, from the feast of St. Michael to Easter, after the passage of two hours after sunrise. It will be permitted, however, for the assessors to agree with the lord wójt on a fixed hour for the session, which, however, when designating, they should clearly define. The absence of each assessor, the last of the assessors or the one on the right side, whose predecessor is the nearest, shall diligently note, so that for each absence from the afternoon session, a fine of one groschen shall be imposed, for the session of postponed cases two, and in criminal cases a fine of six groschen. Article 5. Money which, from oaths, judicial actions, decrees, and services, is customarily paid to the court, should be paid and issued from the acts drawn up in court; except, however, for one groschen for the bailiff, they shall be deposited into the assessor shillings, which shillings will be divided between the lord wójt and the assessors. The same should be understood about resignations in postponed cases and about fines. As for the monetary fines falling in the courts preceding the deliberations, those present at the entire proceeding with the lord wójt shall demand payment; those absent shall not benefit from those refreshments along with those present. For it is customary to say: He who works, let him eat. Article 6. [...] in court or from the acts, it is decided and has the force of a decree, for the payment of all assessor shillings from commodity fines [...] of the wójt office, from where he has the right of judicial retention for his burdened case, and then for copies a moderate payment, as for other private ones, he shall pay to Our scribe. As for the money for expediting a petition, whether to the Higher Saxon Law or to the Court of His Royal Majesty, which are customary, in this case, special consideration is given to the litigating assessor, and namely, he shall pay only as much as is due to the secretaries of Our Petitioner, or the Saxon law, or the decrees. The messenger, to whom the petition is to be entrusted, the stewards shall give from [...]. Nevertheless, when an assessor wins a case, the court costs legally incurred shall be paid by the defeated party, he is also obliged to collect compensation for absence and the expense for the messenger, due except for the previous assessor [...]. Article 7. The lord wójt for the time being, by virtue of the petition or the response of the lords councilors, will not decide otherwise than on the basis of a joint deliberation agreed upon with the lords assessors. Also, referrals of criminal cases, which usually follow from the council office to the criminal court, he shall not accept alone, but having taken to himself at least two assessors. So that the assessors may behave as colleagues fraternally, and the assessors among themselves cultivate mutual love and respect, avoiding any haughtiness and bias. [f. 3r] Article eight. The effect of brotherly love requires the same constancy in prosperity and in adversity. Therefore, if any of the assessors happens to suffer damage to his honor or any heavy grievance contrary to the provisions of our Magdeburg law, the assessors as one body should consider that injury as common and shall repel it with common effort and expense. Article ninth. The stewards, as well as the managers of the estates in Sołonka (whom the college of assessors will designate for this), every year four weeks before the election of the new magistrate, without any delay shall have ready the accounts of income and expenditure prepared for this purpose, and the remainder, if any appears from the accounts, they shall faithfully return and calculate to the colleagues for the chest, or as it seems appropriate; and they shall beware not to take the money belonging to the chest to private houses, but entrust it [only with the knowledge] of the entire college, and in the common treasury faithfully and inviolably keep it. The sealing of documents and petitions shall take place exclusively in the town hall. Since the assessor chest and the fees collected there are frequently mentioned, so that no one might think that this is an invention of novelty, a clear gloss from the city law is added here under article 56: "Whatever - he says - benefits and money falls to them (that is, the assessors) from the verdicts, they take justly". And there below: "Every Ember Days, the money collected from the shillings they divide among themselves and no one has a share with them in this kind of money". From which it clearly follows that the collections of the assessor chest are gathered there and no one except the assessors has any right or interest in them, since the law itself so provides. At the same time of rendering accounts, the acts of Our judicial chancellery shall be revised every year by several men designated from the body of the College capable of this matter. Article tenth. [f. 3v] It was also deemed appropriate by us that for the examinations or tortures of criminals (for it is a matter of the highest importance), the lord wójt should always come personally with two assessors, the assessors, however, shall keep to their order. The elder with the younger shall always come, and that according to seniority, until the whole order is completed and finished. If, however, any of those whose turn it is (being present in the city), without a justified reason, after an admonition made by the lord wójt or those present from the College, does not wish to be present at the tortures, but deliberately absents himself, he shall irrevocably deduct twelve groschen to the chest, whenever he does not submit to this ordinance. Article eleventh. It remains that whoever from future elections will newly join Our College, because he enters into ready labors and legitimate incomes, which we enjoyed due to the vacated estates, we most strongly decide that he shall increase the common chest with a worthy honorarium. Those obliged shall pay this at least within two weeks after the election, and not earlier will they have a share in the cup of merit or refreshment, or the division made by the stewards in the seasons of the year – especially for the feast of the Nativity of the Lord, Easter, All Saints, which from the common chest of this College, by common consent, is customarily distributed to each individually – until they effectively deposit such a worthy honorarium. The measure of such an honorarium shall be such as the status of the entrant and his wealth will indicate, so, however, that due to the vacated estates and hereditary debts subject to repayment, he shall pay no less than sixty florins [...] to the city. This ordinance, for the glory of Almighty God, the governance of holy justice, and the multiplication of our common good in the above-mentioned manner sanctioned and enacted, we, the undersigned assessors, desiring both to keep it inviolably and firmly ourselves, and that it be kept and observed by Our successors in the same office, have strengthened with the suspension of the judicial seal and the signature of our hands. Not closing, however, the way for Us and Our successors, so that this ordinance, with the consent of all of us, could and should have the power in the changeability of affairs and times to be changed, reformed, increased, or decreased, as necessity and the matter itself may seem to require. Done [f. 4r] [Done] and written in the seat of our entire College on Monday, December 19, 1658 [sic]. Place + of the pressed seal. We therefore, JOHN CASIMIR, KING, graciously inclining to the petition of the above-mentioned worthy assessors of the Magdeburg law of Our city of Lviv as just and consistent with reason, have deemed the above-written document of the ordinance or resolution in all its points, clauses, articles, connections, conditions, and obligations worthy of approval, confirmation, ratification, and strengthening (with this, indeed, expressly added by Us condition, that the above-mentioned assessors of the Magdeburg law of Our city of Lviv, chosen and to be chosen, according to the resolution or ordinance written above, as well as ancient customs and habits for many years in continuous execution and order kept and specified in their registers, shall immediately pay the honoraria to the Assessor College to their chest on the day of Palm Sunday and fulfill the remaining points of this ordinance under the penalties described below. If, however, any of the assessors of Our city of Lviv opposes this ordinance or resolution, such one will not only be unable to use the incomes or benefits, but also will not be able to be called or elected to a higher chair, namely to the Lviv council magistrate; [...] of these Lviv assessors [...]; but the Lviv Magdeburg law shall remain), with Our royal authority we approve, confirm, ratify, and strengthen for eternal times, and we wish that they enter into due execution, providing that the same document of the ordinance should obtain the force and weight of due constancy and power. In proof of which, we have ordered this document signed by Our hand to be strengthened with the crown seal. Given in Poznań, on the 6th day of the month of May, in the Year of our Lord 1658, and of Our reign in Poland the tenth, and in Sweden the eleventh year. John Casimir King [autograph] Wojciech Laskowski, Secretary of His Royal Majesty, autograph. [Dorsalia / Inscriptiones, f. 4r bottom:] Confirmation of the resolution or a certain ordinance of the Lviv assessors for the judicial office of the city of Lviv. [f. 3v / f. 4v - Verso (photos 7 and 8):] [Note:] No. 2. 1658. John Casimir's ordinance for the assessors. [Chancellery note / 17th-century register, faded:] [...] to the Lviv Assessor College [...] 1671 [...] [Ink seal on photo 8:] ARCHIVE OF ANCIENT ACTS OF THE CITY OF LVIV

[f. 1r] IOANNES CASIMIRVS Dei Gratia Rex Poloniæ, Magnus Dux Lithuaniæ, Russiæ, Prussiæ, Masouiæ, Samogitiæ, Liuoniæ, Smolensciæ, Czernihouiaeq[ue], Nec non Suecor[um], Gothor[um], Vandalorumq[ue] hæreditarius REX. Significamus præsentibus l[ite]ris N[ost]ris quorum interest vniuersis et singulis. Oblatas esse Nobis literas p[ap]yroceas [lub: papyro...] inscriptas, Sigillo Iudicij Iuris Illat[i] Magdeburgensis Ciuitatis N[ost]ræ Leopolien[sis] munitas, Laudum seu Ordinationem certam in se continen[tes], Supplicatumq[ue] est Nobis n[omi]n[i]e et pro parte Honoratorum Iuris Magdeburgensis Civitatis N[ost]ræ Leopolien[sis] Scabinorum, vt easdem authoritate N[ost]ra Regia approbare et confirmare dignaremur. Quarum quidem l[ite]rarum tenor est talis qui sequitur. In nomine Domini Amen. Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcen[tesi]mo Quinquagesi[mo] Octavo. Nos Bartholomaeus Dzerowicz Artium Baccalaureus, Joannes Klemek Aromatarius, Excellens Andreas Abricius Philosophiæ et Medicinæ Doctor, Albertus Gładysz Iuris Excubens Paulus Borgan[?] [Medic?] Doctor Melchior Faszkowicz, Valentinus Fosde[?] Aromatarius, Laurentius Jasznicki Starosta Kozakowski, Hieronymus Wardosi[?] Pellio, Andreas Cechowic Aromatarius Scabini iurati Civitatis Leopolien[sis]. Vniuersis et singulis quorum interest notum testatumq[ue] facimus. Quia Nos Divina vocatione et Superioris Potestatis authoritate, ad Officium præsens Scabinale electi, attendentes P[er]decessores N[ost]ros Statuta et sanctiones inter se, sine Scitu et Scitu[?] Superioris P[ote]statis vel Nobis quasi per manus tradidisse, quibus Nos acceptatis prout in re tempestate nostris [...] et tanquam vestigiis consuetudine et solennitate eorum [...] Officio Iureque nostro relinquentes, expressis pro aut id coop[er]ati Divina suffragante gratia Articulos præsentes tam modum Ordinationis perpetuo [...] et [...] quam [...]. [f. 1r, dół] Articulus Primus. Imprimis a Cultu Divino, et Caussis piis inchoantes, volumus ut in festis et Solennioribus Festis et Dominicis diebus [...] laudemur, aut celebretur missa pro Votis [...] P[er]decessores et Collegæ de Venerabili Senatu et Ecclesia Metropolitana celebrentur, conuenientibus Dominis Confratribus ad Offertorium [...], sed Dominis Advocato, Scabinis Ordine suo subsequentibus, absentes vero pœna duorum grossorum mulctentur. Quos grossos postremus in Ordine Vocationis Scabinus, vti Exacto[r] solidorum Scabinorum in pixidem resignat. De quo resarciturus, si hac in re Officio desit suo. Articulus 2dus. Dum continget funus apud aliquem Scabinorum, D[omi]nus Iudex Iudicatus, in præsentia de numero Scabinorum electum mittat ad requisitus per Bedellum, unde venire debebunt omnes Scabini ad prosequendum funus. Vbi omnes qui præsentes erunt, in Civitate conuenire, eiusque illud prosequi tenebuntur; Absentes vero Saluo tamen legali certioris pœna grossorum trium mulctentur. Articulus 3tius. Ad iuuandam [...] constituentur singulis Quatuorlibet, fieri Missam vnam pro defunctis ad Altare N[ost]rum Scabinale decantare, sub p[œna] vnius solidi ad Altaris cuiusq[ue] Scholaribus iuxta Contestationem cum Scholaribus [...] Bedellus pridie celebra[tionis] [...] interest et ad Offertorium ire tenebuntur. Dominum Deum pro suis Consanguineis et Amicis precibus exporantes. Absentes vero pœna trium grossorum mulctabuntur, Saluo legitimo absentiae Legali. [f. 2r] Articulus 4tus. Ad exercenda iudicia curabunt omnes Scabini pro debito Officij sui hora præfixa se præsentare (Hoc autem intelligendum ne de deliberationibus super sententia ferenda litium) quotanq[ue] D[omi]nus Aduocatus per Bedellum siue eius Syndegam obdestinauit, præter vel ad celebranda Iudicia mane ante Celebrationem Iudicij conuenire; ad exposita pridie Celebrationis ad [...] iuxta quouis tempore secundum casus superuenientis exigentiam. Tempus autem Celebrationis Iudicij statuitur Æstate a festo videl[icet] Paschatis ad festum S[anc]ti Michaelis post ortum Solis duabus vel tribus horis; Hyeme vero a festo S[anc]ti Michaelis ad Paschatis post Ortum solis duabus horis elapsis. Liberum tamen erit Scabinis cum Domino Aduocato de certa sessionis hora conuenire, quam tamen obdestinantes exprimere debebunt. Absentias cuiuslibet Scabini Vltimus Scabinorum vel ille a dextris, cui proximus antecedens diligenter notet, ita quod pro absentia qualibet in meridiano vnius grossi, in Exposito duorum, in Criminali Sex grossorum pœna mulctetur. 5tus Articulus. Pecunia quæ a iuramentis oper[e] Iudicium Decretis et prestitis, mor[e] consueto soluitur Iudicio pertinere, debebit dari et liberari ab Actis in Iudicio Facto; uno tamen grosso pro Bedello excepto, ad solidos Scabinales consignetur, qui Solidi D[omi]no Aduocato et Scabinis diuidentur. Hoc idem de Resignationibus in Exposito et Emendis causis intelligendum. Mulctas vero in Iudicijs accedentes præteritis deliberationibus, et actioni toti præsentes, cum D[omi]no Aduocato fuerint persoluere absentes iisden refectionibus cum præsentibus gaudeant. Vulgo enim: Qui laborat Manducet. 6tus Articulus. [...] in Iudicio siue ex Acto decernitur et Decreti habere, p[ro] solutione Solidorum omnium Scabinalium ab Emendis mercariæ [...] D[omi]ni Aduocatalis, vnde Iudiciaria apprehensionis pro suo negotio gravato habere, ac postea p[ro] Rescriptis moderationem mercedem pro aliis privatis, Notario Nostro soluet. Quantum vero attinet pecuniam pro expediendis Postulatis, siue ad ius Supremum Saxonico[rum], siue ad Curiam Sac[ræ] Reg[iæ] Mai[es]t[a]tis Regis solitam in hac quouis Scabini litigantis peculiaris ratio habetur, et nimirum tantum soluat, quod Nostro Postulantis, aut iuris Saxonici aut Decretorum Secretariis debetur. Tabellarium vero cui Postulatum delaturus est Scheidmagistri ab [...] dabunt. Nihilominus vbi Scabinus victor causæ extiterit, a super[ata] parte iure facta sumptus Iudicatus soluent, etiam Emendam receptis absentis et sumptum pro Tabellario exigere debebit, solum Exceptio ad præcedentem Scabinalem [...] debetur. 7mus Articulus. D[omi]nus Aduocatus pro tempore ex vi postulati aut responsi DD. Consul[um] nonnisi ex mutua cum D[omi]nis Scabinis deliberatione conclusa persoluent. Remissiones etiam causarum Criminalium quæ ab Officio Consulari ad Iudicium Criminale fieri solent, solus non suscipiet, sed astrictis sibi adminus duobus Scabinis. Ita quos Scabinos vti collegas fraterno ac fraterne se gerere possint, et Scabini inter se mutuam charitatem et obseruantiam colant, dignitatem et partialitates quasvis evitando. [f. 3r] Octauus Articulus. Fraterni amoris effectus in prospere et adversis eandem constantiam requirit. Proinde si cuipiam ex Scabinis honoris diminutio, seu Gravisensatio aliqua contra iuris nostri Magdeburgensis præscriptum acciderit, Scabini tanquam unum corpus, iniuriam illam communem censere debebunt, eamq[ue] opera et sumptu Communi propulsabunt. Nonus Articulus. Schedamajistri prout et Oeconomi bonorum in Solowrko (quos Collegium Scabinale ad id deputauerint) cuiuslibet anni paratas rationes Accepti et Expensi, quatuor Septimanis ante Electionem novi Magistratus, ad id acquisiti, moras nullas nectentes habeant, atq[ue] residuum si quod saperent ex rationibus fideliter collegis, ad pixidem, vel prout iisdem videbitur restituant numerentq[ue]; et caueant, ne pecunias ad Pixidem pertinentes in domos privatas deferant, sed omnibus sub inscio Collegio committant, sed eas in Ærario communi fideliter et integre conservent. Obsigillationes Instrumentorum ac Postulatorum nonnisi in Praetorio deponatur. Quoniam Pixidis Scabinalis, et Collectarum ibi frequens sit mentio, ne quis putet Novitatis hoc esse inuentum, subiungitur hic plana glossa ex iure Munic[ipali] super artic[ulo] 56. Quicquid (inquit) commodi ac pecuniarum ex sententiis eis (puta Scabinis) cedit, iuste accipiunt. Et ibidem inferius: Singulis Quatuor Temporibus pecuniam Solidorum Collectam inter se diuidunt, nec aliquis participat cum eis de pecunia huiusmodi. Vnde patet collecta Pixidis Scabinalis in isto congeri, nec alicui præter Scabinos ius, aut interesse aliquod ad ea competere, ipso iure sic disponente. Circa idem tempus rationum reddendarum Acta Cancellariæ Nostræ Iudiciariæ quotannis revideantur, deputatis e medio Collegij aliquot ad eam rem idoneis. Decimus Articulus. [f. 3v] Visum quoq[ue] nobis est, et ad Quæstiones seu Tormenta flagitiosorum (res etenim maximi est momenti) semper D[omi]nus Aduocatus cum duobus Scabinis veniat ipse, Scabini tamen suo teneant ordinem. Senior cum Iuniore semper veniat, idq[ue] secundum Ordinem, donec omnis expediatur ordo et integer. Quod si vero (præsens in Vrbe) citra legitimam causam denunciatione vel D[omi]ni Aduocati, vel Collegij præsentes facta quispiam illorum, quos tangit ordo, noluerit adesse Quæstionibus, sed consulto sese absentauerit, Pixidi duodecim grossos numeret irremissibiliter, toties quoties huic Ordinationi non responderit. Vndecimus Articulus. Superest ut quicunq[ue] ex futuris Electionibus ad Nostrum Collegium nouiter accesserint, quoniam ad paratos labores et prouentus l[egi]t[im]os quibus fruebamur ob bona exempta introeunt, omnino censemus ut Honorario condigno Pixidem communem augeant. Id autem præstare tenebuntur ad minimum in decursu duorum septimanarum spatio post Electionem, nec prius Poculo meritorio, aut Refectionis, vel diuisionis Scheidmagistri temporibus anni gaudeant, potissimum in Festo Natalis Domini, Paschatis, Omnium Sanctorum, ex Pixidis communis Collegii huius consensu tamen communi, viritim distribuere solent, participes erunt, donec Honorarium tale condignum efficaciter præstent. Honorarij autem tale Moderamen esto, quale Conditio introeuntis, et facultas demonstrabit, ita minus tamen ratione exemptorum bonorum debitorumq[ue] Hereditariorum reemptionalium persoluendorum per florenos sexaginta [...] illud civitatem soluet. Quam quidem Ordinationem ad honorem Dei omnipotentis, Iustitiæ Sanctæ regiminis, boni Nostri communis incrementum, modo præmisso sancitam et conclusam volentes Nos Suprascripti Scabini tam ipsimet, inuiolate et firmiter tenere, quam et a Nostris in eodem Officio Successoribus teneri et obseruari, Sigilli Iudiciarij appensione, et manuum nostrarum subscriptione muniuimus. Non præcludentes tamen viam Nobis et Successoribus nostris, quin hæc Ordinatio ex consensu omnium Nostrum pro vicissitudine rerum et temporum mutari, reformari, augeri, vel minui prout necessitas ipsa et res requirere videbitur, possit et valeat. Actum [f. 4r] [Actum] et Scriptum in Residentia totius Collegij Nostri die Lunae 19 duodecima Anno 1658 centesimo decimo Octavo. Locus + Sigilli appressi. Nos itaq[ue] IOANNES CASIMIRUS REX, Supplicatione prænominatorum Honora[to]r[um] Iuris Magdeburgensis Ciuitatis N[ost]ræ Leopolien[sis] Scabinorum vti iustæ ac rationi consonæ, benigne annuentes, Suprascriptas literas Ordinationis seu Laudi, in omnibus earum punctis, clausulis, articulis, nexibus conditionibus, et ligamentis, approbandas, confirmandas, ratificandas, et roborandas esse duximus, (vt quidem cum ea per expressum adiecta per nos conditione, quatenus suprascripti Iuris Magdeburgen[sis] Ciuitatis N[ost]ræ Leopolien[sis] Scabini Electi et Eligendi, iuxta Laudum seu Ordinationem suprascriptam, tum et vsus, ac consuetudines antiquas, a compluribus annis in executione et ordine continua habitas, in Regestrisq[ue] illorum specificatas, Honoraria Collegio Scabinali ad pixidem illorum pro die Dominica Palmarum indilate reddant, cæterisq[ue] eiusdem Ordinationis punctis sub pœnis infrascriptis exequantur. Quod si vero aliquis ex Scabinis Ciuitatis N[ost]ræ Leopolien[sis] huic Ordinationi seu Laudo contravenerit, talis non solum Prouentibus seu beneficijs gaudere, verum neq[ue] ad altius subsellium videlicet Magistratum Consularem Leopolien[sem] vocari aut eligi poterit; [...] ex iisdem Scabinis Leopoliensibus [...]; Sed ius Iurium Magdeburgense Leopoliense permanebit, authoritate N[ost]ra Regia approbamus, confirmamus, ratificamus et roboramus in perpetuum: atq[ue] vt ad debitam executionem deducantur inferre volumus: Decernentes easdem l[ite]ras Ordinationis vim et robur debitæ firmitatis ac roboris obtinere debere. In cuius rei fidem præsentes manu Nostra subscriptas, Sigillo Regni communiri iussimus. Datum Posnaniæ Die VI. Mensis Maij, Anno Domini MDCLVIII. Regnorum Nostrorum Poloniæ Xo, Sueciæ vero XIo Anno. Ioannes Casimirus Rex [manu propria] Albertus Laskowski Sacræ R[egiæ] M[aiesta]tis Secretarius mp[ria]. [Dorsalia / Inscriptiones, f. 4r dół:] Confirmatio Laudi seu Ordinationis certæ Scabinorum Leopolien[sium] ad officium Iudic[iarium] Civitatis Leopoliensis. [f. 3v / f. 4v - Verso (zdjęcia 7 i 8):] [Nota:] Nro 2do. 1658. Joannis Casimiri Ordinatio pro Scabinis. [Nota kancelaryjna / regest z XVII w., zatarty:] [...] Collegio Scabinali Leopolien[si] [...] 1671 [...] [Pieczęć tuszowa na zdj. 8:] ARCHIWUM AKT DAWNYCH MIASTA LWOWA