General confirmation of the rights and privileges of the city of Lwów by King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki

[f. 1r] MICHAŁ By the Grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlachia, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia, and Chernihiv, etc. To all and each to whom it may concern, we hereby announce by this Our letter. [On the left, an ornamental cartouche with the Korybut coat of arms under a crown] We confess that among the primary concerns of those who rule, this one should be for Us the first and most important: that those through whose prayers, sighs, or free votes We have assumed the government of this most glorious Kingdom, may experience the mutual testimony of Our royal benevolence and favorable will. We can testify to this with no other more effective proof than by ensuring that they live and reside peacefully and securely under the same laws and privileges which they enjoyed under Our Most Serene Predecessors; although we confirmed them with a solemn oath at the altar of God, binding ourselves to their preservation and defense for all, yet at the request of the noble and prudent Marcin Anczewski, Our secretary and physician, and Jan Stefan de Rippa Ubaldini, councilors, and Tomasz Chrząszczowic, doctor of philosophy, secretary and syndic of Our city of Lwów, appearing before Our presence in their own name and in the name of the entire magistracy and commonalty to take the oath of allegiance, we deemed it appropriate to satisfy them, so that all their rights, privileges, letters, decrees, liberties, concessions, exemptions, plebiscites, prerogatives, and all other documents, both parchment and paper, issued and granted to them publicly and privately by any princes, lords, kings, and rulers, Our Predecessors, being just and lawful, generally confirmed, We also confirm the same, and in particular the letter of the Most Serene John Casimir, Our Dearest Predecessor, of the general confirmation [f. 1v] of the privileges of this Our city of Lwów, dated in Kraków at the diet of His dignified coronation on the 13th day of February in the Year of Our Lord 1649, as well as the diploma of equalization with the main cities of Our Kingdom, namely Kraków and Vilnius, granted and bestowed by the aforementioned Most Serene Predecessor of Ours and the estates of the Kingdom graciously to the aforementioned city of Lwów and its inhabitants for their merits amply rendered to Our Most Serene Predecessors, the kings of Poland, and the entire Commonwealth – have confirmed, strengthened, renewed, approved, and ratified. The contents of which, both in general and in particular, so that the generality does not repeal the particularity, and the particularity does not repeal the generality, we wish to have the same force and meaning as if they were included word for word in this letter of Ours, and in the possession and use of which [the burghers] have been and are hitherto, without any exception, by Our certain knowledge and by the advice and consent of the senators of the Kingdom sitting by Our side at that time, having regard to justice and fairness itself, through which – as we recognize – all laws and the happiness, peace, and durability of kingdoms and states are strengthened, especially in this present inaugural time of Our reign, when a praiseworthy custom arose among Our Predecessors, the kings of Poland, to lift up fallen laws and orders, to strengthen those lifted, to multiply those strengthened, and not only to preserve the ancient immunities, liberties, and prerogatives of all Our subjects, but also to introduce provisions for better government – in all their contents, conditions, clauses, articles, reservations, and paragraphs, we have deemed worthy of confirmation, strengthening, renewal, approval, and ratification, and insofar as they are in accordance with the law, we confirm, strengthen, renew, approve, and ratify them by this Our letter and ordain that all of them and each one individually shall always have the force and durability of due and inviolable constancy. For the greater faith and more evident testimony of all this, we have signed this with our own hand [f. 2r] and ordered it to be affixed with the seal of the Kingdom. Given in Kraków at the General Diet of the Kingdom of Our Happy Coronation, on the 9th day of November in the Year of Our Lord 1669, and in the first year of Our reign. Michał King [autograph] [Chancery note on the right:] Confirmation of the rights of the city of His Royal Majesty of Lwów. 1236 [Secretary's signature in the bottom right corner:] Hieronim Piasecki Secretary of His Royal Majesty, by own hand [f. 2v - Verso:] [Period note:] General confirmation of the rights and privileges of the city of Lwów by the Most Serene Michał, King of Poland, under his happy coronation in Kraków, in the Year of Our Lord 1669. [Archival signatures:] No. 13 chest 10 C [Round ink stamp:] ARCHIVE OF ANCIENT ACTS OF THE CITY OF LWÓW Fifth rubric Letter E. No. 15 to bundle 101 No. 13. S. E. 15. [Seal:] [Round great crown seal of King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki impressed in red wax, in a metal capsule, suspended on a braided silk cord]

[f. 1r] MICHAEL Dei Gratiâ Rex Poloniæ, M[agnus] D[ux] L[ithuaniae], Ruſsiæ, Pruſsiæ, Maſouiæ, Samog[iti]æ, Kiio= uiæ, Wolhyniæ, Podoliæ, Podlachiæ, Liuoniæ, Smoli[a]æ, Seuer[iae]: Czerniehouiæq[ue etc.] Significamus præſentibus l[it]ris N[os]tris quor[um] intereſt uniuersis et ſingulis. [Z lewej strony ozdobny kartusz z herbem Korybut pod koroną] Inter præcipuas Regnantium curas hanc pri= mam & potiſsimam ineſſe Nobis debere fate= mur, ut q[ui] quorum ſiue votis, ſiue ſuſpiriis, ſiue liberis quoque ſuffragiis inclyti huius Regni a= depti ſumus gubernacula, agnoscant reciprocam Regalis Nostræ beneficentiæ & promptæ volun= tatis teſtificationem. Quam nullo alio efficacio= ri magis comprobare illis poſſumus argumento, quàm ſi ſub iisdem, quibus ſub Sereniſsimis An= teceſſoribus Nostris vtebantur quietè & pacatè viuant degant= que Iuribus & priuilegiis, quæ licet ſacroſancto ad Altare Dei omnibus tenenda & conseruanda firmauerimus Iuramento, ni= hilominus ad ſupplicationem Nobilium & Spectabilium Mar= tini Anczewski Secretary ac Medici Nostri, Ioannis Stepha= ni de Rippa Vbaldini Consulum, Thomæ Chrząszczowic Philo= ſophiæ Doctoris Secretary ac Syndici Ciuitatis Nostræ Leopoli= ensis, ſuo ac totius Magistratus & Communitatis nomine ad præsentiam Nostram pro præstando fidelitatis iuramento ac= cedentium, faciendum duximus, ut eorundem omnia iura, pri= uilegia, literas, decreta, libertates, conceſſiones, exemptiones, ple= biscita, prærogatiuas, & alia omnia munimenta, tam pergame= nea quam papyracea per quoscunque Duces, Principes, Reges & Dominos Prædeceſſores Nostros ipſis tam publicè quam priua= tim data & conceſſa datasque & conceſſas, iusta & legitima in= ſtasque & legitimas generaliter confirmata & confirmatas Nos quoque eadem & easdem, præsertim verò Sereniſſimi Ioannis Casimiri Prædeceſſoris Nostri Charisſimi Literas Confirmatio= [f. 1v] nis generalis Priuilegiorum eiusdem Ciuitatis Nostræ Leopolien= ſis de Data Cracouiæ in Comitijs Augustæ Coronationis Eiusdem die XIII Mensis Februarij Anno Domini MDCXLIX, nec= non Diploma Coæquationis cum primarijs Regni Nostri, vt= potè Cracouiensi & Vilnensi Ciuitatibus à ſupranominato Se= renissimo Prædecessore Nostro & Ordinibus Regni gratiosè ſæ= pedictæ Ciuitati Leopolienſi eiusque Incolis pro illorum in Sere= niſſimos Prædeceſſores Nostros Reges Poloniæ & totam Rempubli= cam ſat abundè præstitis meritis, collatam & concessam confirmare= mus, roboraremus, innouaremus, approbaremus & ratificaremus. Quorum vel quarum tenores, tam in genere quàm in ſpecie, ita vt generalitas ſpecialitati & ſpecialitas generalitati non deroget, & proinde eſſe ac valere volumus, tanquàm his literis Nostris de verbo ad verbum inſerta insertæque eſſent, in quorum vel in qua= rum vſu & poſſeſſione hactenus fuerunt & ſunt, nullis penitus exceptis de certa ſcientia Nostra, ac de consilio & aſſensu Consi= liariorum Regni protunc lateri Nostro aſſidentium, respectu ipſius æquitatis & iustitiæ, quâ iura omnia, Regnorumque & Imperiorum felicitatem, tranquillitatem ac diuturnitatem firma= ri agnoscimus, hoc nimirum præsenti inaugurali Regni N[ost]ri tempore, quo leges & ordinationes prolapſas erigi, erectas firma= ri, firmatas augeri, ac ſubditorum Nostrorum omnium, immuni= tates libertates & prærogatiuas non modo antiquas conseruari, ve= rum etiam causâ melioris regiminis ordinationes institui Præde= ceſſoribus Nostris Regibus Poloniæ laudabilis obſeruatio hucuf= que extitit, in omnibus eorum carumque tenoribus conditioni= bus clausulis articulis conditionibus & paragraphis confirman[da] roboran[da] innouan[da] approban[da] & ratifican[da] eſſe duximus prout in quantum de iure ſunt confirmamus roboramus, innouamus ap= probamus & ratificamus præsentibus literis Nostris, eaque omni[a] a & ſingula vim & robur debitæ & inuiolabilis firmitatis ſemper obtinere debere decernimus. In quorum omnium maiorem fidem & euidentius testimonium præsentes manu Nostrâ ſubſcripſimus [f. 2r] & ſigillo Regni communiri mandauimus. Data Cracouiæ in Comitijs Generalibus Regni Felicis Coronationis Nostræ Die IX Mensis Nouembr[is] Anno Domini MDCLXIX Regni vero Nostri Primo Anno. Michael Rex [autograf] [Nota kancelaryjna z prawej strony:] Confirmatio Iurium Ciuitatis S[acrae] R[egiae] M[aiestatis] Leopolienſis. 1236 [Podpis sekretarza w prawym dolnym rogu:] Hieronymus Piasecki Reg[iae] M[aiesta]tis secret[arius] m[anu] p[ropria] [f. 2v - Verso:] [Nota z epoki:] Confirmatio Generalis Jurium & Privilegiorum Civitatis Leopoliensis per Serenissimum Michaelem Regem Poloniae sub felici Coronatione eiusdem Cracoviae Ao: D: 1669. [Sygnatury archiwalne:] No 13tio arca 10 C [Pieczęć tuszowa okrągła:] ARCHIWUM AKT DAWNYCH MIASTA LWOWA Rubrica Quinta Litt: E. No 15to ad Fasc: 101 Nro 13. S. E. 15. [Pieczęć:] [Okrągła pieczęć wielka koronna króla Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego odciśnięta w czerwonym wosku, w metalowej kapsule, zawieszona na plecionym jedwabnym sznurze]