Confirmation by King Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki of the ordinance of the college of jurors of the city of Lwów

[f. 1r] MICHAEL BY THE GRACE OF GOD, KING OF POLAND Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia, and Chernihiv. To all and singular whom it may concern, we hereby make known by this letter. A paper document has been presented to Us, extracted from the acts of the Magdeburg municipal court of Lwów, signed by the hand of the noble Jakub Mościcki, Doctor of Philosophy, notary of the same law and court, and affixed with a seal, whole, intact, undamaged, and entirely free from any mark of suspicion or defect. Containing the confirmation of the ordinance, that is, the articles serving the college of the juror court of Our city of Lwów. And a request was brought to Us in their name that We might deign to approve, confirm, and ratify them with Our royal authority. The wording of this document follows word for word and is of the following nature. A public court was held in Lwów on the Wednesday after the nearest Sunday of the Octave of Easter in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and seventy-one. At this Magdeburg municipal court of Lwów, the noble and venerable Mr. Mikołaj Barez, sworn juror of this city, appearing in person, as the then deputy of the venerable senior juror, openly and freely presented and submitted for entry into these acts the approval, that is, the privilege of His Royal Majesty for the resolution [laudum], that is, the existing ordinance, drawn up by the previous venerable gentlemen, colleagues of the juror court of Lwów, on the twelfth day of the month of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and eighteen, arranged article by article, or in parts, and edited into a consistent document, made and graciously granted to the same noble juror college of Lwów in Poznań, on the sixth day of the month of May in the year of our Lord one thousand [f. 1v] six hundred and fifty-eight, signed by the hand of the Most Serene John Casimir, Our Most Gracious Lord, and affixed with the seal of the Lesser Crown Chancellery, whole, intact, and undamaged, free from any mark of suspicion, requesting that it be accepted and entered into the acts of the current office. The wording of which approval, that is, the privilege of His Royal Majesty, follows in this content: [Wording of the privilege of His Royal Majesty:] 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. To all and singular whom it may concern, we hereby make known by this letter. A paper document, described below, affixed with the seal of the Magdeburg law court of Our city of Lwów, containing a certain resolution, that is, an ordinance, has been presented to Us. And a request was brought to Us in the name and on behalf of the venerable jurors of the Magdeburg law of Our city of Lwów, that We might deign to approve and confirm it with Our royal authority. The wording of this document is as follows: [Wording of the resolution, that is, the ordinance:] In the name of the Lord, amen. In the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and seventeen. We, Bartłomiej Uberewicz, dean, bachelor, Jan Alempek, pharmacist, the distinguished Andrzej Abrek, Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine, Wojciech Gadyk, butcher, the distinguished Paweł Borm, Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine, Melchior Paszkiewicz, Walenty Schole, locksmith, Wawrzyniec Schmith, Stanisław Czepielowski, Hieronim Michajłowic, furrier, Andrzej Zechenticz, pharmacist, sworn jurors of the city of Lwów. To all and singular whom it may concern, we make known and certify. That We, by divine calling and by the authority of the superior power elected to this juror office, considering that the revenues, laws, orders, statutes, and certain customs were observed among us without any documents and were passed to Us as if from hand to hand, which, having accepted, and due to the changeability of times and necessary additions, so that we ourselves might have this in a continuous and established manner, and leave them in the office to successors as a model for posterity, with the support of divine grace, we have decided to edit the following in the form of a perpetual ordinance in writing, to be strictly observed by Us and those following Us. Article one. First of all, beginning with the worship of God and the obsequies of the deceased, we wish to preserve the ancient custom of Our Predecessors, so that on more solemn feast days in the cathedral church or others, where the wójt [advocatus] will be present together or separately with our college, for which the presence of the office is required, or if it happens that a mass for the Most Holy Sacrament will be celebrated in the cathedral church in the presence of the gentlemen [...] [f. 2r - f. 3v: Articles II-XI and the concluding formulas of the laudum of 1618 and the privilege of John Casimir of 1658.] [...] Done in Lwów, in the residence of the entire college of the gentlemen jurors, on the twelfth day of the month of February in the year one thousand six hundred and eighteen [...] [...] Given in Poznań on the sixth day of the month of May in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty-eight [...] John Casimir, King [...] [f. 4r] [... in own hand:] M[aster] Jakub Mościcki, Doctor of Philosophy, notary of the municipal court of Lwów, by own hand. Place of the municipal seal. WE, therefore, King Michael, graciously acceding to the above-mentioned request as just and corresponding to equity, have deemed the document presented above in all its points, clauses, articles, connections, conditions, and obligations worthy of approval, confirmation, and ratification, as also (insofar as they do not violate common law and are in use) we hereby approve, confirm, and ratify by this Our letter. Determining that the same shall retain the force and weight of perpetual durability. In witness whereof, we have ordered this letter, signed by Our hand, to be affixed with the Crown seal. Given in Warsaw on the 1st day of the month of May in the year of our Lord 1671, in the second year of Our reign. Michael, King [by own hand] [Chancery note:] Confirmation of the ordinance, that is, the resolution of the college of the juror court of the city of Lwów. Senior Hieronim Pinocci, Secretary of His Royal Majesty [f. 4v - Verso:] [Modern round ink stamp:] ARCHIWUM AKT DAWNYCH MIASTA LWOWA [ARCHIVE OF ANCIENT ACTS OF THE CITY OF LWÓW] [Archival note, 17th century:] 1671 King Michael for the jurors [Archival note:] Privileges of the Lwów jurors

[k. 1r] MICHAEL DEI GRATIA REX POLONIAE Magnus Dux Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogitiae, Livoniae, Smolensciae, Severiae, Czerniechoviaeque. Significamus praesentibus literis Nostris quorum interest universis et singulis. Productas coram Nobis fuisse literas papyraceas, ex Actis Judicii Civilis Magdeburgensis Leopolien[sis] per Extractum depromptas, manu Nobilis Jacobi Mościcki Ph[ilosophi]ae Docto[ris], Juris et Judicii eiusdem Notarii subscriptas et Sigillo communitas, sanas, salvas, illaesas, omnique prorsus suspitionis et vitii nota carentes. Continentes in se Confirmationem Ordinationis seu Articulorum Collegii Judicii Scabinalis Civitatis Nostrae Leopoliensis, servientium. Supplicatumque est Nobis nomine eorundem, quatenus easdem authoritate Nostra Regia approbare, confirmare et ratificare dignaremur. Quarum quidem literarum tenor de verbo ad verbum sequitur, estque eiusmodi. Judicium necessarium Bannitum Leopoli Feria Quarta post Dominicam Conductus Paschae proxima. Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Septuagesimo primo celebratum est. In eo Judicio Civili Magdeburgensi Leopoliensi, residens personaliter Nobilis et Honoratus Dominus Nicolaus Barez, Scabinus Civitatis huius Juratus, uti protunc Honorati Senioris Scabini locum tenens, palam et libere exhibuit, et ad inserendum Actis praesentibus porrexit, Approbationem seu Privilegium Sac[rae] Reg[iae] Ma[iesta]tis super Laudum seu Ordinationem extantem, per Antecedentes Honorabiles Dominos Collegas Judicii Scabinalis Leopolien[sis], die duodecima Mensis Februarii, Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Decimo Octavo, articulatim, seu per partes conditam, et in scripturam consentaneam redactam, factum, et eidem Nobili Collegio Scabinali Leopoliensi, Posnaniae, die sexta Mensis Maii, Anno Domini Millesimo [k. 1v] Sexcentesimo Quinquagesimo Octavo, benigniter collatum, manuque Serenissimi Joannis Casimiri Domini Nostri Clementissimi subscriptum, et Sigillo Minoris Cancellariae Regni penes illud communitum, sanum, salvum, et illaesum, omni suspitionis nota vacuum, petens illud ad Acta Officii praesentis suscipi et ingrossari. Cuius quidem Approbationis seu Privilegii Sacrae Regiae Maiestatis tenor sequitur huiusmodi: [Tenor Privilegii Sacrae Regiae Maiestatis:] Joannes Casimirus Dei gratia Rex Poloniae, Magnus Dux Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogitiae, Livoniae, Smolensciae, Czerniechoviaeque. Nec non Suecorum, Gottorum, Vandalorumque Haereditarius Rex. Significamus praesentibus literis Nostris quorum interest universis et singulis. Oblatas Nobis esse literas papyraceas, infrascriptas, Sigillo Judicii Juris Magdeburgensis Civitatis Nostrae Leopoliensis munitas, Laudum seu Ordinationem certam in se continentes. Supplicatumque est Nobis nomine, et pro parte Honoratorum Juris Magdeburgensis Civitatis Nostrae Leopoliensis Scabinorum, ut easdem authoritate Nostra Regia approbare et confirmare dignaremur. Quarum quidem literarum tenor est talis qui sequitur: [Tenor Laudi seu Ordinationis:] In Nomine Domini Amen. Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Decimo Septimo. Nos Bartholomaeus Uberewicz, Decanus Baccalaureus, Joannes Alempek Aromatarius, Excellens Andreas Abrek Philosophiae et Medicinae Doctor, Albertus Gadyk Lanio, Excellens Paulus Borm Philosophiae et Medicinae Doctor, Melchior Paszkiewicz, Valentinus Schole Ferristrarius, Laurentius Schmith, Stanislaus Czepielowski, Hieronymus Michajłowic, Pellio, Andreas Zechenticz Aromatarius, Scabini Jurati Civitatis Leopoliensis. Universis et singulis quorum intererit notum testatumque facimus. Quia Nos, Divina vocatione, et Superioris Magistratus authoritate ad Officium praesens Scabinale electi, attendentes Reditus, Jura, Ordines, Statuta et Consuetudines quasdam inter nos, sine scriptis ullis observasse, et Nobis quasi per manus tradidisse, quibus Nos acceptatis, et pro vicissitudine temporum, ac necessariis Suppletis, ut tam Nosmetipsi continuatum et stabilitum haberemus, et illos in Officio Successoribus relinquamus ad posteritatis exemplum, divina suffragante gratia, decrevimus, sequentes per modum Ordinationis perpetuae, in scriptis redigendas per Nos et Nobis posthac succedentes firmiter observandas. Articulus Primus. In primis a cultu Divino et Exequiis mortuorum incipiendo, antiquam morem Antecessorum Nostrorum retinere cupimus, ut solennioribus Festivitatibus Diebus in Ecclesia Metropolitana, vel aliis ubi Dominus Advocatus, in communi, aut separatim cum Collegio nostro fuerit, ad quam Offitii praesentia requiritur, vel etiam si contingat Missam de Venerabili Sacramento, in Ecclesia Metropolitana celebrari, praesentibus Dominis [...] [k. 2r - k. 3v: Articuli II-XI oraz formuły końcowe laudu z 1618 r. i przywileju Jana Kazimierza z 1658 r.] [...] Actum Leopoli in Residentia totius Collegii Dominorum Scabinorum Duodecima Mensis Februarii Anno Millesimo Sexcentesimo Decimo Octavo [...] [...] Datum Posnaniae die sexta Mensis Maii Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Quinquagesimo Octavo [...] Joannes Casimirus Rex [...] [k. 4r] [... manu propria:] M. Jacobus Mościcki Doctor Philosophiae, Judicii Civilis Leopoliensis Notarius m[anu] p[ropria]. Locus Sigilli Civitatis. NOS itaque Michaël Rex Supplicationi praedictae uti iustae, et aequitati consonae, benigne annuentes, praeinsertas literas in omnibus earum punctis, clausulis, articulis, nexibus, conditionibus, et ligamentis, approbandas, confirmandas, et ratificandas esse duximus, uti quidem (inquam quantum Juri communi non derogant, et usus earum habetur) approbamus, confirmamus, et ratificamus praesentibus literis Nostris. Decernentes easdem vim et robur perpetuae firmitatis valorem obtinere debere. In cuius rei fidem praesentes manu Nostra subscriptas Sigillo Regni communiri iussimus. Datum Varsaviae die 1. Mensis Maij Anno Domini MDCLXXI, Regni Nostri Secundo Anno. Michael Rex [manu propria] [Nota kancelaryjna:] Confirmatio Ordinationis seu Laudi Collegii Civitatis Leopoliensis Judicii Scabinalis. Senior Hieronimus Pinocci Regiae Maiestatis Secretarius [k. 4v - Verso:] [Pieczęć tuszowa nowożytna okrągła:] ARCHIWUM AKT DAWNYCH MIASTA LWOWA [Zapiska archiwalna XVII w.:] 1671 Regis Michaelis pro Scabinis [Zapiska archiwalna:] Privilegia Scabinorum Leopoliensium