Translation / modern text
MICHAEL,
by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, Kiev, Volhynia, Smolensk, Severia, and Chernihiv.
We hereby announce to all and everyone whom it may concern: That although at the time of our most solemn inauguration, according to custom, we confirmed by a public diploma issued that we would preserve and maintain in force the rights, immunities, statutes, and private laws and privileges of all estates of our kingdom and the piety of our subjects, granted and issued by any of our ancestors, and this for the reason that their issued rights might be visible by name, as is the custom. So too, when some of our advisors, on behalf of the noble Jan Felicjan Kulikowski, citizen and juror of Lviv, our true and faithful subject, the current possessor and heir of the estate of the village of Skniłówek, lying near Lviv – whose brave stance, when he served during the hostile siege of our city of Lviv and proved that he stood with the estate of our kingdom and with us with unwavering loyalty and due submission, recommended him to us most generously, as well as the fact that he intends to turn his innate nobility of spirit day by day more towards merits for the royal house – submitted a request on his behalf that we might deign to approve, renew, confirm, and graciously ratify all his rights, expressed in the registered privilege, as well as decrees, all prerogatives and immunities concerning the said village of Skniłówek, both as to the demarcation of boundaries, [...] relating within and concerning it, and those of his predecessors in its possession clearly and intact, granted to him and his successors by our most serene predecessors formerly in any way, and furthermore the customs which are accustomed to be rendered for this reason and which were actually intact. The literal wording of which is as follows: [... transumed or cited documents of kings Sigismund Augustus, Sigismund III, Władysław IV, and John Casimir concerning Jan Opaczewski, Marcin Kampian, the Hospital of St. Stanislaus, and the boundaries of the village of Skniłówek / Sknilów ...] We therefore MICHAEL [...] Given in Warsaw, on the 13th day of November in the Year of Our Lord 1669, and the first year of our reign.
[Signature:] Michael, King
[Chancery note / countersignature:]
Hieronim Piniński, Notary of the Polish Kingdom [by his own hand]
[Verso:]
[Contemporary note:] Year 1669 / Confirmation of rights to the village of Skniłówek / by King Michael.
[Archival notes:] Bundle 195 / No. 56 / N 5 § 5
Original wording — transcription
MICHAEL:
Dei gratia Rex Poloniae, Magnus Dux Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogitiae, Livoniae, Kijoviae, Volhiniae, Smolensciae, Severiae, Czerniechoviaeque.
Significamus praesentibus literis Nostris, quorum interest universis et singulis. Quia quamvis augustissima inaugurationis Nostrae tempore solemni iuxta consuetudinem Diplomate publico edito omnium Regni Nostri Ordinum, subditorumque pietatis iura, immunitates, statuta et privata Iura ac Privilegia, a quibuscunque Maioribus Nostris, concessa, et edita, servaturos, et lata firmos habituros esse confirmaverimus, idq[ue] ob causam Iura edita eorum nominatim, prout usu habitum est, videantur. Ita cum nonnulli Consiliarii Nostri pro nomine Nobilis olim Joannis Feliciani Kulikowski Civis et Scabini Leopoliensis veri et fidelis subditi Nostri Bonorum Villae Sknilowek, circa Leopolim properiacentis moderni Possessoris et Haeredis, cuius strenuus decor, quo tempore hostilis Civitas Nostra Leopoliensis obsidionis inservierat, docueratque se Regni Nostri Statui inviolabili fide ac debita subiectione, Nobis praestiterit, sat abunde Sit Nobis commendata, tum quod insitam sibi animi dotem de Domo Regia in dies magis ac magis mereri intendat; pro eo Nobis supplicaverit, ut omnia eius iura, in Privilegio insertionis expressa, tum Decreta, Prorogativas omnes, et Immunitates, ad praefatam Villam Sknilowek, tam circa delimitationes Granicierum, [...] intram spectant et eandem concernent, Antecessorumque eius in Possessione eiusdem expresse et illaesos ipsi ac Successoribus eius, a Serenissimis Praedecessoribus Nostris olim quomodocunque concessas, insuper et consuetudines desuper praestari consuevisse datas, et de facto fuisse illaesas, approbare, innovare, confirmare et gratificari dignaremur. Quarum vero tenor verborum est talis: [... transumptowane lub przytoczone dokumenty królów Zygmunta Augusta, Zygmunta III, Władysława IV i Jana Kazimierza dotyczące Jana Opaczewskiego, Marcina Kampiana, Szpitala św. Stanisława oraz granic wsi Skniłówek / Sknilów ...] Nos itaque MICHAEL [...] Datum Varsaviae die 13 Mensis Novembris Anno Domini MDCLXIX, Regni vero nostri anno I.
[Podpis:] Michael Rex
[Nota kancelaryjna / kontrasygnata:]
Hieronymus Piniński Reg[ni] Pol[oniae] Notarius [m.p.]
[Verso:]
[Nota z epoki:] A[nn]o 1669 / Confirmatio Jurium ad Villam Sknilowek / per Michaelem Regem.
[Noty archiwalne:] Fasc. 195 / Nro 56 / N 5 § 5
Reading notes
Parchment document in Latin. The header 'MICHAEL' is written in large blue-colored majuscule, the initial 'S' is decorative, also blue. The pendant seal has not survived (a cut in the parchment plica and remnants of a silk cord are visible). Autograph signature of King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki and the notary of the Crown Chancery, Hieronim Piniński. The catalog card lists as recipients the former owners (Jan Opaczewski, St. Stanislaus Hospital, Marcin Kampian), whose privileges are here received/confirmed, while the direct petitioner and beneficiary appearing in the document is Jan Felicjan Kulikowski (or his successors).
