Confirmation of the rights and privileges of the Shooting Brotherhood in Lwów by King Augustus III

[p. 1 / leather-bound codex cover with embossing; pp. 2-4 / blank pages with old signatures] [p. 5 / p. 6:] [At the top, a coat of arms seal / fiscal stamp: coat of arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Saxony] AUGUSTUS III, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, KING OF POLAND, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlachia, Livonia, Smolensk, Siewierz, and Chernihiv, AND ALSO HEREDITARY DUKE OF SAXONY AND PRINCE-ELECTOR. We hereby announce to all and everyone whom it may concern: that a parchment document of the Most Serene, of blessed memory, Augustus II, King, our most beloved Parent, signed by his own hand and reinforced with the seal of the Lesser Crown Chancellery, whole, sound, and intact, and free from any suspicion, containing the confirmation of letters, privileges, rights, and freedoms granted by Our Most Serene Predecessors, Kings of Poland, to the Shooting Brotherhood of the City of Lwów, has been presented to Us, with a request directed to Us that We might deign to approve and confirm them with Our Royal authority. The content of this document is as follows: Augustus II, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlachia, Smolensk, Siewierz, and Chernihiv, and also hereditary Duke of Saxony, Prince and Elector. We hereby announce to all and everyone who shall have knowledge of this. That since, by the grace of Heaven, we have been called to the helm of the scepter of the most famous Kingdom of Poland and have deserved to be adorned with the Royal Crown, there is nothing we can have more in our wishes and desires than to abundantly strive for the benefits and advantages of Our subjects. Therefore, having learned that Our City of Lwów is so trained in all arts of municipal administration, in war and in peace, that it deserves the name of the bulwark and invincible fortress of almost the entire Kingdom of Poland, [p. 6 / p. 7:] and escorted Us ourselves, recently setting out for the holy war against the Ottoman power, with all proofs of honor and glory; as soon as it was reported to Us by certain of Our Councilors, then assisting at Our Side, that this city stands strong especially thanks to the Shooting Brotherhood and abounds in constant practice in this art, and the superiors of that Brotherhood themselves, the noble and most worthy men Jan Michał Kotorowicz and Józef Kazimierz Wilczek, Our secretaries, councilors of Lwów, having appeared before Our Majesty, presented privileges for this kind of exercise and the immunities associated with them, observed almost since the founding of the city, and confirmed by the Most Serene Predecessors, namely Sigismund Augustus, and subsequently also by the Most Serene John III, Our Predecessor, by a solemn diploma in Warsaw on April 8, 1677, signed by his own hand and provided with the crown seal, requesting Us through these Our Councilors that We might deign to confirm, approve, and clarify these their rights and privileges with Our Royal authority, and supplement any deficiencies. The content of that document is as follows: John III, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlachia, Livonia, Smolensk, Siewierz, and Chernihiv. We hereby announce to all and everyone whom it may concern. Although already at the very auspicious beginning of Our Coronation we confirmed with an oath, laws, and letters (by which, as if by the strongest bonds, human memory, which is fluid and fallible, is accustomed to be strengthened) all rights and privileges both of all Our estates and subjects in general, and in particular of Our City of Lwów. Nevertheless, we consider it the duty of Our royal office that those who, in the uninterrupted course of times, and even moments, have deserved well of Us and the entire Commonwealth with constant loyalty, obedience, and with their strength and property, should experience from day to day from the Majesty of Our Royal Summit ever greater proofs of generosity and kindness, whenever an opportunity arises in need. For this reason, we take the aforementioned City of Lwów and its requests under our protection all the more fervently and with greater obligation, the more convinced we are that it cares from the heart for its preservation, defense, and knightly skill in the event of any enemy attacks. Therefore, when the noble and most worthy Jan Stefan Ubaldini, councilor and then delegate of the city of Lwów, as elder of the Shooting Brotherhood, presented before Us an original parchment document, containing the confirmation of the rights and privileges graciously granted to the same Brotherhood of Lwów Shooters by Our Most Serene Predecessors, made in Lwów on the 30th day of October in the year of our Lord 1671 by the Most Serene, of blessed memory, Michael, [p. 7 / p. 8:] [At the top, a fiscal stamp] Michael, King of Poland, Our Predecessor, signed by the own hand of the Most Serene Michael, Our Predecessor, and reinforced with the crown seal, and requested Us through certain of Our Councilors that We might deign not only to confirm this document with Our Royal authority, but also to improve it in certain points for the reasons described below and to supplement any deficiencies. The content of that document is as follows: Michael, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, Kiev, Smolensk, Siewierz, and Chernihiv. We hereby announce to all and everyone whom it may concern. That the five parchment documents described below have been presented and shown before Us in their intact originals. The first of them, inserted here in its full wording, signed by the hand of the Most Serene John Casimir, Our Predecessor, and sealed with the crown seal of the Greater Chancellery, hanging in a tin box. The content of this first document follows in this tenor: 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 hereby announce to all and everyone whom it may concern: That Sigismund III, of blessed memory, Our most beloved Parent, granted to the Shooting Brotherhood of Our City of Lwów, most usefully established in the same city for the purpose of averting and repelling threatening enemy attacks, the power and consent to collect for the benefit of the same Brotherhood a fee commonly called 'szpaszne', from all merchants driving oxen and other cattle and herds of any kind from Wallachia and elsewhere, both to the Crown and outside the Crown, and detaining them on the Lwów territory and beyond for several days or for a certain time on pastures – one grosz from each ox from the herd, and from smaller cattle from the herd half a grosz, for eternal times. However, since in that permission the space or distance of the place within which the aforementioned collection is to apply to them was not strictly defined, therefore, for the removal of any uncertainty that could arise from this, by this Our Rescript we clarify and decide that this permission is to reach and extend to twelve miles. So that the aforementioned Confraternity of Shooters could and would have the right to freely collect this fee from the aforementioned cattle and herds, and that from all merchants, without anyone's opposition and obstacle, for a distance of the aforementioned twelve miles. And so that this Brotherhood might know the proof of Our favorable will and royal generosity for its merits, amply proven in the repulsion and rejection from the walls with their significant defeat of the treacherous and rebellious Cossacks, who recently with a huge multitude for several weeks persistently tried to capture this city – thanks to the proficiency and shooting skill of the brothers – to the same Shooting Brotherhood for the increase and preservation of its integrity and for the cultivation of exercise in the art of shooting we grant all right and power of collecting [p. 8 / p. 9:] from all foreign and visiting merchants, arriving from any sides and nations to this city both for regular fairs and at any other time for the storage of goods, or returning from there – from every hundred florins, whether in cash brought in for trade purposes, or in their goods of any kind and species, after their valuation by the aforementioned merchants under oath – one grosz, and turning it to their own benefit and convenience. Which, making known to all and everyone whom it may concern, especially to the castle and municipal office of Lwów and all other offices, we command them under Our grace that they should preserve and maintain the aforementioned Shooting Brotherhood in this Our permission in its entirety and inviolably for eternal times and cause it to be preserved and maintained by those whom it concerns. In witness whereof we have ordered this document signed by Our hand to be reinforced with the crown seal. Given in Lwów, on the 11th day of August in the year of our Lord 1651, of Our Polish reign the third year, and the Swedish fourth. John Casimir, King. Place of the seal of the greater Crown Chancellery hanging, contained in a tin box, and impressed in red wax. Wojciech Kadziałowski, secretary of the Royal Majesty, by his own hand. The second document, also parchment, signed by the hand of the same Most Serene John Casimir and reinforced with the seal also of the Greater Crown Chancellery hanging, containing the privilege of a donation of a certain sum, namely fifty Polish florins, from the Tower, otherwise called the Crossbow Bastion, annually falling due and collected by the Lwów Shooting Brotherhood, from the proceedings in Lwów on the Tuesday after the nearest Cross Sunday, in the year of our Lord 1653, and the donation of a certain land, or field in the suburb of the same city, called Halickie, lying on the Zalborski Field, to the same Brotherhood for the sake of shooting exercises from the proceedings in Lwów on the Wednesday after the nearest Exaudi Sunday of the same year by the Lwów Magistrate, or the Orders of the same city granted, and confirmed by the same Most Serene John Casimir dated in Lwów on the very calends of the month of August of the year aforementioned. The third document, similarly parchment, signed by the hand of the Most Serene King Sigismund III, reinforced with the seal of the greater Crown Chancellery hanging, dated in Warsaw on the 30th day of August of the year 1628, containing the fee called 'szpaszne', that is, the authorization to collect for eternal times by the Lwów Shooting Brotherhood one grosz from merchants driving oxen and other cattle and herds from Wallachia and elsewhere to the Crown and outside the Crown, and detaining them for a certain time on pastures within the borders of the Lwów territory. [p. 9 / p. 10:] [At the top, a fiscal stamp] The fourth letter, also parchment, of the Most Serene Henry I, signed by the hand of the most illustrious Valentine Dembiński, Chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland and reinforced with the crown seal of the Greater Chancellery hanging in a wax box, impressed in red wax, dated in Kraków at the General Crown Sejm of the Coronation of the same Most Serene King, on the second day of the month of May of the year 1574, containing the confirmation of the privilege, or prerogative of the Shooting Brotherhood, graciously granted by the Most Serene, of blessed memory, Sigismund Augustus for the development of shooting exercise – namely that in shooting, whenever any of the townspeople knocks down and throws off the bird or chicken made of wood, placed as a shooting target on the mountain set up for shooters, he should be free from all taxes, both royal and enacted and those to be enacted by the Commonwealth, as long as until a similar bird is knocked down by another shooter. And a broader prerogative granted by the same Most Serene Henry to shooters and gunners, that he who knocks down the aforementioned made bird, or a gunner who hits the very center of the target with any war cannon, should be free from municipal taxes, or levies appearing under any name. Furthermore, containing the duty imposed on the mayor and councilors of the city of Lwów to pay to the shooters and gunners from the municipal treasury every year, perpetually and forever, under the penalty of one thousand Polish marks, the sum of forty Polish florins for the purchase of jewels. The fifth and final document, signed by the hand of the Most Serene King Sigismund III, sealed also with the hanging seal of the Lesser Crown Chancellery, contained also in a wax box, including the confirmation of the above-described privilege of the Most Serene Henry, or the prerogatives expressed in the same privilege, dated in Warsaw on the 15th day of the month of April of the year of our Lord 1600. All these five letters of privileges are sound, whole, intact, and free from any suspicion. And because Our Councilors, then staying at Our Side, interceded on behalf of and for the benefit of the elders, juniors, and the entire Shooting Brotherhood established in Our City of Lwów, the metropolis of Ruthenia, that We might deign to approve and confirm the above-mentioned five letters of privileges with Our Royal authority: WE, considering that the shooting exercise for averting and repelling threatening enemy attacks has been founded from the most ancient times with the best intention and for public benefit and has been preserved until now as absolutely necessary, graciously acceding to the aforementioned request at the intercession of Our Councilors, we have deemed it right to approve and confirm the above-included documents – both the first one entered here in full wording, and the others, only specified by proceedings and date (which, however, we wish to have as included and entered) – or rather the rights and privileges expressed above and all other rescripts and diplomas [p. 10 / p. 11:] graciously granted and confirmed by the Most Serene Kings of Poland, Our Predecessors, to the aforementioned Lwów Shooting Brotherhood, as well as customs, habits, freedoms, and immunities, serving exclusively the good and benefit of the Kingdom and the same city, until now shining and immortalized, in all their points, clauses, articles, conditions, and conjunctions, just as if all and each of them were entered word for word here, and we approve, confirm, and ratify them with Our Royal authority, and we preserve and maintain the aforementioned Lwów Shooting Brotherhood in these rights, privileges, prerogatives, rescripts, letters, freedoms, immunities, customs, and habits long serving them, from the fullness of Our Royal Power. Deciding that the aforementioned five letters of privileges and everything contained in them is to have the force and weight of due and inviolable durability (to the extent that they are based on law and are in use). In witness whereof we have ordered this document signed by Our hand to be reinforced with the crown seal. Given in Lwów, on the 30th day of October in the year of our Lord 1671, of Our reign the 3rd year. Michael, King. Place of the hanging seal of the Lesser Crown Chancellery, Stanisław Bużeński, canon of Gniezno and Warmia, regent of the Crown Chancellery. Therefore WE, King John, graciously acceding to the request of the aforementioned Our Councilors, brought to Us on behalf of that Lwów Shooting Brotherhood – as it greatly matters to Us and the entire Commonwealth that this city, lying in the vicinity of pagan borders (with whom peace, even if concluded by ancient and new alliances, can never be free from suspicion), placed almost in their jaws and under the anvil of misfortunes, should become as strongly fortified and provided with weapons as possible, and although from Our zeal for the Commonwealth we have raised from the very ruins with no small expense from Our own royal fund the works and external ramparts, destroyed by the age of time and mostly fallen, and we have taken care of the execution of certain new ones and as much as depends on Us, we strive in continuing the fortifications – desiring nevertheless to have this City of Lwów not only fortified with walls, ramparts, positions, trenches, and fortifications on all sides, but also garrisoned with valiant men, skilled and trained in the art of shooting and provided with the remaining equipment, with Our Royal authority we not only approve, ratify, and confirm the above-included document about shooting exercise, or rather the rights, privileges, rescripts, diplomas, customs, habits, freedoms, and immunities, all in total and each individually, in all points, articles, and conditions, but also, so that even greater [p. 11 / p. 12:] zeal in decorating and fortifying the city to arouse in these Lwów townspeople, from certain knowledge and deliberation of Our Royal and with the consent of Our Councilors and the entire Commonwealth present with Us at this General Assembly of Our Kingdom, we hereby declare that the aforementioned Shooting Brotherhood should perpetually collect and enforce not only the fee called 'szpaszne' from oxen, cattle, and herds driven or imported from Wallachia and elsewhere to the Kingdom of Poland and outside it – one grosz from each ox, cow, calf, and Turkish, Moldavian, Wallachian, or Hungarian horse, and from smaller herds or cattle half a grosz – but also from all foreign and domestic merchants, from the east, from the north, and other parts and sides of the world arriving from anywhere with sums and goods of all kinds and species, of great or lesser price, as well as with finer and more expensive drinks, namely Hungarian wine, malmsey, Spanish, Italian, Wallachian, raw or brewed mead, imported or exported from there not only to Lwów, but to the entire Ruthenian voivodeship and towns and villages belonging to it, now and in the future, during fairs and outside them, at any time, and also from the inhabitants of the Crown, in accordance with the privileges of the Most Serene Kings John Casimir and Michael, Our Predecessors, by virtue of this Our Declaration – not only to twelve miles nor on the Lwów territory itself, but on the entire area and in all parts, places, towns, and villages of the lands and districts of Ruthenia, after prior taxation and valuation of those foreign and domestic goods and expensive drinks to a just and proper sum, which the merchants will be obliged to show under oath – one grosz from every hundred [florins], through their collectors, who should be present with the administrators, superintendents, and writers of crown and Our customs in those lands of Ruthenia. However, without any burdensome disputes with merchants and their complaints; and let them faithfully turn the obtained sums to the needs, ammunition, moving and bringing in of cannons and their repair, to rewards for those shooting well and to other expenses concerning exclusively the shooting exercise itself (with the obligation of accounting before the Magistrate), and let them not abuse that grace and kindness of Ours in any way. Referring also to the point of the privilege of the year 1574, granted to the same Shooting Brotherhood by the Most Serene Henry, Our Predecessor, at the Coronation Sejm in Kraków – so that each of the shooters [p. 12 / p. 13:] understanding the art of more accurate and regular firing of bullets from larger cannons, hitting the target and the center of the shield, should learn it with a more zealous spirit and enthusiasm, and be a glorious example for others – we decide and announce that that winner, commonly called King (who, however, must be a sworn citizen), hitting from any war machine into the center of the target, and his successors hitting the target in an equal or more accurate way, not only are to be decorated with the designated reward of just and appropriate value and jewels for this use and honor long intended (which the same Shooting Brotherhood should buy out as soon as possible from this future income), but also let that King be free and exempt from all taxes and burdens of Ours and the Commonwealth, from paying Our and the Commonwealth's customs, as well as other bridge, water, and land fees, in the Crown and outside the Crown, in any places, chambers, and tollgates, from all goods, both upon departure and return, during fairs and after them – just as we declare him free and exempt by the authority of this Our Sejm, until another hits the same target or any mark of the center of the shield with similar or better skill and shot and wins that glory. Furthermore, we command the Lwów Magistrate as the then and future provisors of the same Brotherhood, that they should treat those citizens entered or to be entered into the register of shooters – not for any reasons and favors, but for merits and diligence, as men capable and perfecting themselves in the art of shooting – especially and paternally, when it comes to private contributions and municipal burdens, and to some extent graciously ease them from those municipal burdens; and let them under Our grace never allow them to be forced and burdened by the decurions or quartermasters with any guards, common watches, otherwise to the quarters, day and night in gates and wickets (since they are obliged to spend sleepless nights in towers, bastions, and ramparts in sudden need and by order of the Magistrate at heavier cannons, as custom dictates). Deciding that all these rights and privileges and this Our ordinance and declaration, approved by public law at the current General Sejm, are to have the force and weight of law, resolution, and Our decision and eternal, inviolable durability, which can never be disturbed by Us, Our Most Serene Successors, Kings of Poland, nor by the then and future Lwów Magistrate. And so that all this may come to general knowledge, let [p. 13 / p. 14:] all courts and offices of the Kingdom, castle and municipal, especially of the Ruthenian lands, accept into their acts the presented document of this privilege and Our decision and have it proclaimed by the general crown bailiff on the public market, and also let them take care that this document is strictly observed by all in its entirety, and let them observe it themselves. Wishing furthermore that the places dedicated to the glorious exercise of annual shooting from smaller firearms, called muskets, as this called 'celstat', occupied by the gunners of Our Royal Arsenal, otherwise taken away by the gunsmiths and turned to secular purposes, should be returned and vacated to the same Brotherhood as soon as possible – we command that those gunners of Our Royal Cekhauz in Lwów, at the first call of them or the superiors of the same Brotherhood, without delay, under the threat of Our severe penalty, vacate and return the aforementioned places called 'celstat'. In witness whereof we have ordered this document signed by Our hand to be reinforced with the crown seal. Given in Warsaw, at the General Crown Sejm, on the 8th day of the month of April of the year of our Lord 1677, of Our reign the third year. John, King. Place of the hanging seal of the Lesser Crown Chancellery. Mikołaj Szulc, secretary of His Royal Majesty, by his own hand. On Monday, on the eve of the feast of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, in the year of our Lord 1677, as a result of the oblation presented by the honest Jakub Jarącki, townsperson and merchant and writer of the Shooting Brotherhood of the City of Lwów, the Lwów Castle Office accepted this document, entered it into the current acts, and ordered it to be announced by the noble Jan Szagalski, general crown bailiff. Therefore WE, KING AUGUSTUS, moved by the request of those Shooters of the aforementioned City of Lwów, by the advice of Our officials then present with Us, that privilege of the Most Serene John III, Our Predecessor, granted to the Brotherhood of those Shooters, and approved and confirmed by the public sejm constitution of the year 1677 – We also with Our Royal authority in all and individual points, clauses, conditions, and conjunctions, just as it was faithfully transcribed word for word above in this Our document, approve, confirm, ratify and so that in all its articles and points, in accordance with their wording, as well as immunities, freedoms, prerogatives, customs, annual fees, and customs, in whose possession they have been and are, by all inhabitants of Our Kingdom, [p. 14 / p. 15:] castle starosts, customs officers, their deputies, and anyone else should be observed, we strictly command, announce, order, and want to be absolutely preserved. And because until now that shooting exercise, most necessary for the defense of this city and the entire Kingdom, was practiced due to the lack of funds and outlays only from larger handguns, otherwise from hook guns, with the abandonment of other weapons – therefore, relying on the above-cited rights and privileges, renewing them from the fullness of Our Royal Power, we command and order the Magistrate of the same city that from now on every year in that shooting exercise he should observe the following order: after the feast of the Resurrection of the Lord, having found a convenient time, let all citizens and inhabitants of Our City of Lwów first begin shooting from smaller weapons, that is, from muskets, to the performance of which they will be obliged by tens or hundreds; then at the designated time and according to the existing custom let them shoot from larger handguns, namely from hook guns. Finally, every three years, after the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, they will be obliged to perform shooting from cannons, with proper ceremonies and requirements, starting this order without delay in the nearest year 1699. As for the places for conducting this shooting exercise from hand weapons, that is, from muskets, which are barricaded and occupied by the servants of the Crown Artillery, and until now have not been vacated even at the frequent requests of the townspeople, with a manifest violence done to the privilege of the Most Serene Our Predecessor – we command that the same Magistrate should insist with the Most Illustrious Elder over the Crown Cannon, that he should cause the vacation and return of those places necessary and essential for shooting. In witness whereof we have ordered this document signed by Our hand to be reinforced with the crown seal. Given in Warsaw on the 17th day of the month of October of the year of our Lord 1722, of Our reign the 26th year. Augustus, King. Place of the hanging seal of the Lesser Crown Chancellery. Adam Stanisław Grabowski, cathedral dean of Chełmno, secretary of His Royal Majesty. WE therefore, KING AUGUSTUS, graciously acceding to the request directed to US by the noble Mikołaj Sachagowicz, writer and current elder of the same Lwów Shooting Brotherhood, the aforementioned [p. 15 / p. 16:] document and everything contained in it, we have deemed worthy of approval and confirmation, and also: as far as they are based on law and are in use, we approve and confirm with this Our document, deciding that they are to possess the force and weight of due durability. In witness whereof we have ordered this document signed by Our hand to be reinforced with the crown seal. Given in Warsaw, on the fifth day of the month of April of the year of our Lord 1739, of Our reign the VI year. Augustus, King [Intabulation note on the left side:] Let it be entered into the acts. Decided in the Royal Council of the Magistrate of the Metropolitan City of Lwów on January 11, 1794. Alojzy Rzerbelski, by his own hand [Chancellery note on the right side:] Confirmation of the rights and privileges of the Lwów Shooting Brotherhood. Teodor de Klevel, cathedral scholastic of Livonia, canon of Wieluń [?], secretary of His Royal Majesty and the lesser crown seal [p. 16 / p. 17:] 244. Tabula 1794 Book of Privileges I, page 62, number 20. Entered on January 30, 1794. This privilege was entered into the Lwów Municipal Books, into the Book of Privileges, volume 1, p. 62, no. 20, and noted in the Book of Hereditary Estates, volume XX, p. 221 regarding the Zalborskie land and mill, p. 229 regarding the tenement house no. 92, and also in the Hereditary Estates volume IV, p. 385 regarding the Celstat lands, and in the Hereditary Estates volume XV, p. 213 regarding the tenement house no. 5 regarding the annual rent of 50 PLN. On January 30, 1794. Kazimierz Medyński, by his own hand, registrar of municipal books. [Tax note:] 98. Tax assessor Collated by Antoni Kaszuba, by his own hand. [Trace of a paper seal under a rhomboidal cover] [pp. 17-20 / blank pages; p. 21 / colored endpaper]

[s. 1 / okładka kodeksu skórzana z tłoczeniami; s. 2-4 / karty czyste z dawnymi sygnaturami] [s. 5 / p. 6:] [U góry pieczęć herbowa / stempel skarbowy: herb Rzeczypospolitej i Saksonii] AUGUSTUS III DEI GRATIA REX POLONIÆ, Magnus Dux Lithvaniæ, Rufsiæ, Pruſsiæ, Masoviæ, Samogitiæ, Kijoviæ, Volhyniæ, Podoliæ, Podlachiæ, Livoniæ, Smolensciæ, Severiæ, Czerniechoviæq[ue], NEC NON HÆREDITARIUS DUX Saxoniæ & PRINCEPS ELECTOR. Significamus præsentibus Literis Nostris Quorum interest Universis et singulis: Exhibitas Nobis efse Literas Pergamenas Serenis- simi Divæ memoriæ Augusti Secundi Regis, desideratiſsimi Pa- rentis Nostri, manu ipsius propria Subscriptas, et Sigillo mi- noris Cancellariæ Regni, communitas, sanas, salvas, et illæsas, omniq[ue] Suspitione carentes, Confirmationem Literarum Pri- vilegiorum, Jurium, et Libertatum à S[ereni]fsimis Prædeceſsoribus N[ost]rīs, Regibus Poloniæ, Confraternitati Jaculatorum Civitatis Leopoliensis conces- sarum in se continentes, Supplicatumq[ue] Nobis efse, ut eas Authoritate n[ost]rā Regia approbare, et confirmare, dignaremur. Quarum quidem Literarum Te- nor est Talis: Augustus Secundus DEI Gratia Rex Poloniæ, Magnus Dux Li- thvaniæ, Rufsiæ, Pruſsiæ, Masoviæ, Samogitiæ, Kijoviæ, Volhyniæ, Podoliæ, Podla- chiæ, Smolensciæ, Severiæ, Czerniechoviæq[ue], nec non Hæreditarius Dux Saxoniæ, Princeps et Elector. Significamus præsentibus Literis Nostris Quorum interest Universis et Singulis, harum Notitiam habituris. Quod posteaquam Superis faventibus Sceptris, Incliti Poloniæ Regni admoti essemus, Coronaq[ue] Regia insi- gniri meruimus, nihil magis in Votis Nostris, et desiderijs habere pofsumus, quā commodis, et utilitatibus Subditorum Nostrorum, abundè prospicere. Eapropter cum Civitatem Nostram Leopoliensem, omnibus politicæ administrationis arti- bus, bello, et pace excultam efse accepimus, adeo ut totius fere Regni Poloniæ, [s. 6 / p. 7:] antemurale et invictum haberi mereatur propugnaculum, Nosq[ue] ipsos ad bellum s[acr]u[m] verum contra Othomanicam potentiam nuper proficiscentes, omnibus proseqvuta fuerit honoris et gloriæ argumentis; ubi primum relatum Nobis fuit, per certos Con- siliarios Nostros, Lateri Nostro tunc aſsistentes, eandem præcipue Confraternitate Jaculatorum, efse stabilitam, exercitationeq[ue] continua illius artis abundare, ipsiq[ue] eius- dem Confraternitatis Præsidentes, Nobiles et Spectabiles Viri, Joannes Michaël Koto- rowicz, Josephus Casimirus Wilczek, Secretarij Nostri, Consules Leopolienses, ad No- stram Præsentiam venientes, Privilegia super eiusmodi exercitio, et Immunitati- bus, ad illud spectantibus, à condita fere Urbe observatis, à Serenissimis Antecessori- bus, videlicet Sigismundo Augusto, subsequenter, etiam à Serenissimo Joanne Tertio, Prædeceſsore Nostro, Solenni Diplomate, Varsaviæ, Die VIII. Aprilis, MDCLXXVII. Anno confirmata, manuq[ue] illius subscripta, et Sigillo Regni munita, exhibuiſsent, Nobisq[ue] per eosdem Consiliarios Nostros, quatenus eadem illorum Jura, et Privile- gia, Authoritate Nostra Regia, confirmare, et eadem approbare, et declarare, defe- ctusq[ue] omnes Supplere, dignaremur: Quarum quidem Literarum Tenor est eiusmodi: Joannes Tertius DEI Gratia Rex Poloniæ, Magnus Dux Lithvaniæ, Rufsiæ, Pruſsiæ, Masoviæ, Samogitiæ, Kijoviæ, Volhyniæ, Podoliæ, Podlachiæ, Livoniæ, Smolensciæ, Severiæ, Czerniechoviæq[ue], Significamus præsentibus Literis Nostris Quorum interest Universis et Singulis. Licet in ipso felicis Coronationis Nostræ auspi- cio, ut omnium generaliter Statuum, et Subditorum Nostrorum, ita Singulari- ter Civitatis Nostræ Leopoliensis, Jura omnia, et Privilegia Sacramento Jurisju- randi Legibus, et Literis (quibus tanquam validiſsimis retinaculis fluxa et labi- lis hominum memoria Stabiliri consvevit) confirmaverimus. Nihilominus tamen id muneris Nostri Regij, esse arbitramur, ut ij, qui interrupta temporum imo momen- torum serie, constanti fide, obseqvio, tum Viribus et Fortunis de Nobis, deq[ue] tota Repu- blica bene mereantur, maiora quoq[ue] in dies, ex Maiestate Culminis Nostri Regij, mu- nificentiæ, ac Liberalitatis, qua votis qualiteris dum se necefsitatis porrigit occa- sio, experiantur, argumenta, quibus eo impensius, ac obligatius, dictam Civitatem Nostram Leopoliensem, eiusq[ue] instantias amplectimur, quo magis eandem Con- servationi, defensioniq[ue] suæ, ac rei militaris in omnes hostium insultus eruditioni ex animo studere persuasum habemus. Proinde cum reproduxerint, coram Nobis Nobilis ac Sp[ecta]blis Joannes Stephanus Ubaldini, Consul, et protunc Ablegatus Civitatis Leopoliensis, uti Confraternitatis Jaculatorum Senior, Literas Pergamenas, Origi- nales, Confirmationem Jurium Privilegiorum eidem Confraternitati Jaculatorum Leopolien[si] à Serenissimis Anteceſsoribus Nostris benignè collatorum, Leopoli, Die XXX Mensis Octobris, Anno Domini, MDCLXXI. per S[ereni]fsimūm Divæ memoriæ Michaëlem [s. 7 / p. 8:] [U góry stempel skarbowy] Michaëlem Regem Poloniæ, Prædeceſsorem Nostrum factam, in se continentes, ma- nuq[ue] propria Serenissimi Michaëlis Prædeceſsoris Nostri Subscriptas, et Sigillo Re- gni communitas, Supplicaretq[ue] Nobis, per certos Consiliarios Nostros, quatenus easdem Literas, Authoritate Nostra Regia, non modo confirmare, verum in certis punctis ex rationibus infrascriptis, meliorare, ac defectus omnes Supplere, dignaremur: Quarum quidem Literarum Tenor est eiusmodi: Michaël DEI Gratia Rex Poloniæ, Magnus Dux Lithvaniæ, Rufsiæ, Pruſsiæ, Masoviæ, Samogitiæ, Livoniæ, Kijoviæ, Smolensciæ, Severiæ, Czerniechoviæq[ue], Significamus præsentibus Literis Nostris Quo- rum interest Universis et Singulis. Reproductas et in suis originalibus illæsis, com- monstratas fuisse, coram Nobis Literas, infrascriptas qvinq[ue] Pergamenas. Primas quidem hic de toto suo Tenore insertas, Manu Serenissimi Joannis Casimiri Anteceſ- soris Nostri Subscriptas, et Sigillo Regni Cancellariæ Maioris pensili, in pixide la- minea contento, obsignatas. Qvarum primarum Literarum Tenor seqvitur eiusmodi: Joannes Casimirus DEI Gratia Rex Poloniæ, Magnus Dux Lithvaniæ, Rufsiæ, Pruſsiæ, Masoviæ, Samogitiæ, Livoniæ, Smolensciæ, Czerniechoviæq[ue], nec non Sveconum Gottorum Vandalorumq[ue] Hæreditarius Rex, Significamus præsentibus Literis No- stris Quorum interest Universis et Singulis: Concefsisse Divum Sigismundum Ter- tium, Progenitorem Nostrum desideratiſsimum, Fraternitati Jaculatorum Civita- tis Nostræ Leopoliensis, ad avertendos, et propulsandos ingruentes hostium insultus, in eadem Civitate apprime utiliter Institutæ, Facultatem et Consensum, pro usu eius- dem Confraternitatis, Pensionem vulgo Szpaszne dictam, ab omnibus Mercatoribus boves, aliasq[ue] cuiusvis Speciei pecudes, ac greges, ex Valachia, et aliunde, tam in Re- gnum, quam extra Regnum, agentibus, et pellentibus, eosq[ue] intra et extra Territorium Leopolien[se], per aliqvot dies, vel aliqvod tempus, in pascuis detinentibus, per unum gre- gum, à qvolibet bove, à minoribus vero è grege pecudibus, per medium groſsum, tem- poribus perpetuo duraturis exigendi. Cæterum cum in eadem Conceſsione interca- pedo, sive interstitium loci, intra quod nimirum præfata exactio competere ipsi debeat, Specifice non sit, exarata. Proinde ad tollendam omnem, quæ inde oriri poſsit, ambiguitatem, eandem conceſsionem, ad Duodecim Milliaria porrigi et extendi debere, præsenti Rescripto Nostro, declaramus, et edicimus. Ita ut ean- dem Pensionem, prænominata Jaculatorum Confraternitas, à memoratis pecori- bus et pecudibus, idq[ue] ab omnibus Mercatoribus, tantum sine cuiusvis contradi- ctione, et impedimento, ad præfatorum Duodecim Milliarium distantiam, libere exigere poſsit, et valeat; Quo vero ea ipsa Confraternitas, pro meritis suis, fidefragos, et rebelles Cosacos, oppugnationem, eiusdem Civitatis, non ita pridem per aliquot septimanas, pertinaciter ingenti, agmine tentantes, peritia, ac dexte- ritate iaculandi, à manibus, cum insigni illorum Clade, retrudendo, ac reijciendo, [s. 8 / p. 9:] abunde contestatis, propensæ Nostræ in se Voluntatis, Liberalitatisq[ue] Regiæ, agno- scat argumentum, illi ipsi Jaculatoriæ Confraternitati, pro augenda conservandaq[ue] ipsius integritate, ac promovendo Artis Jaculatoriæ Exercitio, Jus, et facultatem omni- modam tribuimus, ab omnibus Mercatoribus externis, et peregrinis, et quibuscunq[ue] oris et nationibus, in eandem Civitatem, tam ad Nundinas solitas, quam quovis alio tempore, ad depositorium venientibus, vel inde redeuntibus, a quibuslibet Centum Florenis, sive in parata pecunia, mercandi gratia, illata et importata, sive in Merci- bus illorum, cuiuscunq[ue] illæ generis, et Speciei fuerint, æstimationem eorundem per dictos Mercatores, Juramento liquidan[dam], contentis, per grofsum unum, exigendi, et in usum commodumq[ue] suum, convertendi. Quod omnibus et Singulis quorum interest, præsertim vero Castrensi, et Civili Leopoliensi, alijs q[ue] quibusvis Officijs, ad notitiam deducentes, eisdem mandamus, ut prænominatam Confraternitatem Jaculatorum, circa eandem Conceſsionem N[ost]ram, integrè, et inviolabiliter, perpetuo, conservent et manu- teneant, conservariq[ue], et manuteneri, ab ijsdem quorum interest, curent, Pro Gratia Nostra. In cuius rei fidem, præsentes manu N[ost]rā Subscriptas, Sigillo Regni, communiri iufsi- mus. Datum Leopoli, Die 11. Augusti, Anno Domini, MDCLI. Regnorum Nostrorum Poloniæ, III. Sveciæ IV. Anno. Joannes Casimirus Rex. Locus Sigilli Majoris Cancella- riæ Regni pensilis in pixide laminæ contenti, in cera vero rubra expressi. Alb[ertu]s Ka- działowski Secretarius Reg[iæ] Maiestatis, m[anu] p[ropri]a. Secundas itidem Pergamenas, ma- nu eiusdem Serenissimi Joannis Casimiri Subscriptas, et Sigillo itidem Maioris Can- cellariæ Regni pensili communitas, Privilegium Donationis, Summæ certæ, scilicet Lvingvaginta Florenorum Polonicalium, ex Turri, alias z Baszty Samostrzelnicy di- cta, quot annis provenientis, per Confraternitatem Jaculatoriam Leopolien[sem] perci- piendæ, de Actu Leopoli, Feria Tertia, post Dominicam Rogationum proxima, Anno 1653. Domini, Millesimo Sexcentesimo Quinqvagesimo Tertio, et Donationis Fundi, seu Agri certi, in Suburbio eiusdem Civitatis, Halickie dicto, in Laneo Zalborskie nun- cupato, existentis, eidem Confraternitati, propter Exercitium Jaculatorium, de Actu Leopoli, Feria Qvarta, post Dominicam Exaudi, proxima, Anno eodem, per Magistratum Leopolien[sem], seu Ordines Civitatis eiusdem recognitæ, ac per eundem Serenissimum Joannem Casimirum, de Data Leopoli, ipsis Kalendis Mensis Augusti, Anno quo Supra confirmatæ, in se continentes. Tertias similiter Per- gamenas, manu Serenissimi Sigismundi III. Regis Subscriptas, Sigillo Maioris Cancellariæ Regni pensili firmatas, de Data Varsaviæ, Die XXX Mensis Augu- sti, Anno Millesimo Sexcentesimo Vigesimo Octavo, continentes in se Pensionem Szpaszne vocatam, nimirum Facultatem exigendi à Mercatoribus boves aliasq[ue] pecudes et greges, ex Valachia, et aliundè in Regnum et extra Regnum pellentibus, easq[ue] intra Territorium Leopolien[se], per aliquod tempus in pascuis detinentibus [s. 9 / p. 10:] [U góry stempel skarbowy] detinentibus, per unum grofsum, perpetuis temporibus per Confraternitatem Jacu- latorum Leopolien[sem], recipiendi. Qvartas itidem Pergamenas, Serenissimi Henrici Pri- mi, manu Ill[ustri]ci Valentini Dembinski Regni Poloniæ Cancellarij Subscriptas, et Sigillo Regni, Cancellariæ Maioris pensili, in pixide cerea contento, cera vero rubra expressa roboratas, de Data Cracoviæ, in Conventu Regni Gn[er]āli Coronationis, eiusdem Serenissi- mi Regis, Secunda Die Mensis Maij, Anno Millesimo Qvingentesimo Septuagesimo Qvarto, Confirmationem Privilegij, seu Prærogativæ Confraternitati Jaculatorum, per Serenissimum Divæ Memoriæ Sigismundum Augustum, ut scilicet in exerci- tio iaculandi, quoties aliquis Civium, Avem seu Gallum, ex Ligno fabricatum, pro Scopo Jaculatorio, sibi supra montem ipsi Sagittariorum positum, detruserit, et de- iecerit, ab exactionibus quibusvis, tam Regijs quam Reipublicæ laudatis, et laudan- dis, tam diu liber esse debeat, quam diu ab alio Jaculatore, similis avis deiecta non fuerit, præfatæ Fraternitati, ut Jaculationis Exercitium cresceret, benigne con- ceſsæ. Atque uberiorem Prærogativam, per eundem Serenissimum Henricum Jacu- latoribus et Pixidarijs, ut idem Deiaculator avis fabricatæ, vel Pixidarius Scopum quavis Machina bellica medius attingens, immunis sit à Contributionibus, seu Exactione Civili quocunq[ue] nomine nuncupata. Insuper onus Proconsuli, et Consu- libus Civitatis Leopolien[sis], ut Jaculatoribus, et pixidarijs Pensionem Qvadraginta Florenorum Polonicalium, pro clenodijs coëmendis, ex aerario Civili, qvolibet An- no, perpetuo, et in ævum, sub pœna Mille marcarum Polonicalium extradant, im- positum, compræhendentes. Qvintas deniq[ue], et ultimas Literas, manu Serenissimi Sigismundi III. Regis Subscriptas, Sigillo similiter pensili, Minoris Cancellariæ Regni in pixide itidem cerea contento obsigillatas, suprascripti Privilegij Serenissimi Henrici, seu Prærogativarum in Privilegio eodem exprefsarum, confirmationem complectentes, de data Varsaviæ, Die XV Mensis Aprilis Anno D[omi]ni MDC. Omnes easdem Literas Privilegiorum quinq[ue], Salvas, sanas, illæsas, et quavis Suspitione ca- rentes. Supplicatumq[ue] Nobis esse, per Consiliarios Nostros, pronunc ad Latus Nrūm residentes, nomine, et pro parte Seniorum, Juniorum, ac totius Confraternitatis Jaculatorum, in Civitate Nostra Metropoli Ruysiæ Leopolien[si] fundatæ, quatenus præinsertas Literas Qvinq[ue] Privilegiorum, Authoritate N[ost]rā Regia, approbare, et confirmare dignaremur: NOS, Exercitium Jaculatorium ad avertendos, et pro- pulsandos ingruentes, hostium insultus, ab antiquiſsimis temporibus, optima intentione, et cum publico commodo fundatum, et hucusq[ue] observatum, quam ma- xime neceſsarium esse, advertentes, ad interceſsionem Consiliariorum Nostrorum, Supplicationi prædictæ benigne annuentes, superius insertas Literas, tam scilicet Primas de toto Tenore hic inscriptas, quam alias duntaxat, de Actu, et Da- ta Specificatas (quas tamen hic pro insertis, et ingroſsatis haberi volumus) seu potius Jura et Privilegia, superius expressa, et alia omnia Rescripta, Diplomata, [s. 10 / p. 11:] Confraternitati præmemoratæ, Jaculatorum Leopoliensium, à Serenissimis Re- gibus Poloniæ, Anteceſsoribus Nostris, benigne collata et confirmata nec non usus consvetudines, Libertates, Immunitates, et non nisi cum bono ac utili Regni acci- vitatis eiusdem, hucusq[ue] clarescentes, et perpetuatas in omnibus earum punctis Clausulis, Articulis, Conditionibus et Ligamentis, ac si hic omnia et Singula de verbo ad verbum inserta essent, approbandum et confirmandum, esse duximus, prout Authoritate Nostra Regia, approbamus, confirmamus, et ratificamus, me- moratamq[ue] Confraternitatem Jaculatorum Leopolien[sem], circa eadem Jura, Privile- gia, Prærogativas, Rescripta, Literas, Libertates, Immunitates, usus, consvetudines, ipsis antiqvitus servientes, de plenitudine Potestatis Nostræ Regiæ, conservamus et manutenemus. Decernentes præfatas Literas, Privilegiorum Qvinq[ue], et omnia in eis contenta, vim et robur debitæ, ac inviolabilis firmitatis (inquantum Juris est, et usus earum habetur) obtinere debere. In cuius rei fidem, Manu Nostra præsentes subscriptas, Sigillo Regni communiri iuſsimus. Datum Leopoli, Die XXX Mensis Octobris, Anno Domini MDCLXXI. Regni vero Nostri III. Anno. Michael Rex. Locus Sigilli pensilis Minoris Cancellariæ Regni, Stanislaus Buzenski Sne- snen[sis] Varmien[sis], Canonicus, Regens Cancellariæ Regni. NOS, itaq[ue] Joannes Rex Supplicationi præfatorum Consiliariorum Nostrorum, ex parte eius Confrater- nitatis Jaculatorum Leopolien[sis], ad Nos factæ, benigne annuentes. Cum multum intersit Nobis, totiq[ue] Reipublicæ, ut Civitas illa finibus Paganorum (cum quibus pax quamvis fœderibus antiquis, et recentibus facta, unquam esse suspecta non possit) vicina et pene in faucibus illorum, ac sub incude malorum posita quāv[is] munitissima, armisq[ue] instructissima reddatur, ac efficiatur, pro Nostro in Rem publicam studio, quamvis opera, et propugnacula externa, vetustate temporis consumpta, et dilapsa, maiori ex parte, imo ab ipsis Ruderibus non mediocri Sumptu, ex peculio Nostro Regio, ereximus, non nulla nova fieri sollicite procu ravimus, et quantum ex Nobis est, in continuanda fortificatione, desudamus, Nihilominus cupientes, eandem Civitatem Leopolien[sem], non modo muris, Vallis, Sta- tivis, propugnaculis, manibus, circumquaque munitam, verum Præsidiis, Viris bellicosis, et artem iaculandi bene pollentibus, ac exercitatis, reliquoq[ue] instrumen- torum apparatu instructam habere, et ornatam non modo supra insertas Lite- ras Exercitij Jaculatorij, seu potius Jura, Privilegia, Rescripta, Diplomata, Usus, consvetudines, Libertates, Immunitates, omnes, in genere, et Singulas in Specie, in omnibus punctis, Articulis, et conditionibus, authoritate Nostra Re- gia, approbamus, ratificamus, et confirmamus, verum ut tanto maius [s. 11 / p. 12:] studium ornandæ ac muniendæ Civitatis in iysdem Civibus Leopolien[sibus] accenda- mus, de certa scientia, ac deliberatione Nostra Regia, ac cum Consensu Consili- ariorum Nostrorum, totiusq[ue] Reipublicæ in hoc Generali Regni nostri Conven- tu Nobiscum extan[tium] declaramus præsentibus, quatenus dicta Confraternitas Ja- culatorum, non solum Pensionem Szpaszne, nuncupatt[am], a bobus pecoribus et gregi- bus, ex Valachia, et aliundè, in et extra Regnum Poloniæ, ducendis, vel reducendis per unum gróſsum, a quolibet bove, vacca, Vitulo, et eqvo Turcico, Moldavico, va- lachico, vel Hungarico, à minori vero grege, vel pecudibus, per medium groſsum verum ab omnibus Mercatoribus externis, et internis, ab oriente vel septemtrione ac alijs orbis partibus, et plagis, undequaque cum Summis et Mercibus cuiusvis generis, et speciei magni vel minoris pretij, tum et liquoribus pretiosioribus et potioribus, ut pote Vino hungarico, Malmatico, Hispanico, Italico, Valachico, mulso, crudo, vel cocto, non modo Leopolim, sed in totum Russiæ Palatinatum ac Oppida, et Villas eidem annexas, nunc et in posterum, ad et extra Nundinas, quovis tempore, advehendis, vel inde evehendis, tum et ab Incolis Regni, iuxta Pri- vilegia Serenissimorum Joannis Casimiri, et Michaëlis Regum Prædecessorum Nostrorum authoritate præsentis Declarationis Nostræ, non modo ad Duo- decim Milliaria, aut in solo Territorio Leopolien[si], verum in toto et omnibus par- tibus, ac Locis, Oppidis, et Villis Terrarum ac Districtuum Ruſsiæ, præviâ Taxa et reductione, earundem Mercium, exoticarum, et domesticarum, tum Liquo- rum pretiosorum, ad Summam iustam et congruam, quam Mercatores sub Ju- ramento liquidare tenebuntur, per unum groſsum, à quolibet Centum per su- os Succollectores, qui circa Administratores et Superintenclentes Notariosq[ue] The- loneorum Regni, et Nostrorum, in dictis Terris Ruſsiæ præsentes, adesse debe- bunt, temporibus perpetuis, sine tamen ulla depactatione Mercatorum, quo: rumvis, et querela ipsorum, exigat, emoneat, et in neceſsitates ammunitio: nes, eductiones, et reductiones Tormentorum, ac meliorationes ipsorum, præmia bene iaculantium, et in alias expensas mere solum iaculandi e: xercitium respicientes, fideliter (salvo Calculo, coram Magistratu Consu- lari faciendo) convertant, neq[ue] eadem Gratia, et Clementia N[ost]rā Regia, in aliquo abutantur. Inhærendo quoq[ue] Puncto Privilegij 1574 per Sere: nifsimum, Henricum Prædeceſsorem N[os]trūm, in Comitijs Coronationis suæ, Cracoviæ, eidem Confraternitati Jaculatorum, dati ut qvilibet Jaculatorum [s. 12 / p. 13:] artem rectius, et regularius, pilas è maioribus Tormentis, explodendi finem et Centrum Orbis, vulgo Tarcza dict[i], attingendi æmulo ac ferventiori Spiritu et mente concipiat, ediscat, alijsq[ue] in præmyssis laudabili incitamento sit, eiusmodi deplosor vulgo Krol, nuncupat[us] (qui Civis tamen iuratus esse debebit) medium quavis machina bellica, Scopulum attingens, ipsiusq[ue] Succedanei pari vel rectiori modo Terminum attingentes, non modo præmio sibi proposito, iusti et æqvivalentis pretij, et clenodijs huic usui, et honori ab antiquo applicatis (quæ ex hoc futuro Pro- ventu, eadem Confraternitas Jaculatorum, quantocius eximere tenebitur) deco- retur, verum ab omnibus, et singulis Contributionibus, et oneribus N[ost]rīs, et Reipu- blicæ tum à Solutione Theloneorum Nostrorum, Reiq[ue]publicæ, aliarumq[ue] exactionū Pontalium, Aqvariarum, et Terranearum, intra et extra Regnum, in quibusvis Locis Diverticulis, Cameris, a quibusvis mercibus, tam in eundo quam redeundo tempore nundinarum, vel post liber et immunis sit, prout eundem authoritate præsen- tis conventus Nostri liberum et immunem declaramus, tam diu quamdiu alius simili, vel meliori arte, et sorte eandem metam, seu quodvis Signum Termini medium non attigerit, eandemq[ue] gloriam lucratus non fuerit decla- ramus et Statuimus. Hoc insuper Magistratui Consulari Leopolien[si], tanquam eiusdem Confraternitatis Provisoribus, nunc et pro tempore existentibus, injun- gentes, ne eosdem Cives, albo Jaculatorum nullo alio prætextu et favore sed me- ritis et industria inscriptos, vel inscribendos Viros habiles, et in arte iaculandi crescentes, Singulariter et Paternè quantum ad privatas Contributiones, et one- ra Civilia, respiciat, et in parte aliqua, de oneribus Civilibus ysdem favorabiliter remittat; neq[ue] eos ad ullas excubias, vigilias Contubernales alias do Wiertelow diurnas et nocturnas, in Portis Portulis (Siquidem in Turribus Propugnaculis et Vallis, urgente necessitate, et iuſsu Magistratus, circa grandiora Tormenta, per Turnum ut moris est sistere noctesq[ue] insomnes, agere adstricti sunt;) per cen- turiones alias Wiertelnikow, stringi et aggravari unquam permittant, pro Gratia N[ost]rā. Decernentes ea omnia Jura, et Privilegia, Nostramq[ue] præsentem Ordinationem et Declarationem, per Legem publicam, in præsenti Generali Conventu approbatam, vim et robur Legis Plebisciti, et Sancti nostri perpetuaq[ue] ac unquam per Nos Serenissimos Successores Nostros, Reges Poloniæ, aut per Magistratum Leopolien[sem], nunc et pro tempore existentem, inviolabilis firmitatis habere debere. Quæ omnia, ut ad notitiam quorumvis deducantur, quatenus quievis [s. 13 / p. 14:] quævis Judicia et Officia Regni Castrensia et Civilia præsertim Terrarum Rufsiæ, obla- tas eiusmodi Privilegij, ac Sanctiti Nostri Literas, ad Acta sua suspiciant, et per Mi- nisterialem Regni Generalem, in Foro publico, proclamari faciant, easdemq[ue] Literas ab omnibus inviolabiliter in toto observari, curent, ipsiq[ue] observent, Volentes insuper Loca laudabili usui, è minoribus Sclopetis Muszkiety dictis, annuatim exploden- di consecrata, ut pote Celstat nuncupata, per Pixidiarios Arsenalis Nostri Regij, occupata, alias przez Ruszkarzow odięte, et in usus profanos, conversa eidem Con- fraternitati quantocius restitui, ac deoccupari mandamus, quatenus ijdem Pi- xidiarij Armamentarij Nostri Regales Leopolienses ad primam vel ipsorum Su- premi Officiales eiusdem Confraternitatis requisitionem, sine mora sub gravi ani- madversione Nostra, loca præfata, Celstat dicta, deoccupent, ac restituant. In cu- ius rei fidem, præsentes Manu Nostra subscriptas, Sigillo Regni, communiri iuſsi- mus. Datum Varsaviæ, in Conventu Regni Generali, Die VIII. Mensis Aprilis, Anno Domini MDCLXXVII. Regni Nostri Tertio Anno. Joannes Rex. Locus Si- gilli pensilis Minoris Cancellariæ Regni. Nicolaus Szulc Regiæ M[aies]t[at]is Secretar[iu]s, m[anu] p[ropri]a. Feria Secunda, in Vigilia Festi Sanctorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum, Anno Do- mini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Septuagesimo Septimo, ad Oblationem Honorati Jacobi Jarącki, Civis et Mercatoris, atq[ue] Notarij Confraternitatis Jaculatorum Ci- vitatis Leopolien[sis], Officium Castren[se] Leopolien[se] suscepit, et in Acta præsentia induxit, et per Ministerialem Regni Gn[er]ālem, Nobilem Joannem Szagalski, publi- cari demandavit. NOS itaq[ue] AUGUSTUS REX. Supplicatione eorundem Jaculatorum, prædictæ Civitatis Leopolien[sis], permoti de Consilio Nostrorum Officiali- um tunc circa Nos præsentium eiusmodi Privilegium Serenissimi Joannis Tertij Prædecessoris Nostri, Confraternitati eorundem Jaculatorum impertitum, con- stitutione Regni publica, Anni Millesimi Sexcentesimi Septuagesimi Septi- mi approbatum, et confirmatum. Nos quoq[ue] authoritate Nostra Regia,- in omnibus et singulis punctis, clausulis, Conditionibus, et ligamentis pro: ut supra in Literis Nostris, præsentibus, de verbo ad Verbum, fideliter descri [ptum continetur, approbamus,] confirmamus, ratificamus, et ut in omnibus su is articulis et punctis, iuxta obloqventiam earundem, tum Immunitatibus, Libertatibus, Prærogativis, consvetudinibus, pensionibus, annuis, vectigalibus in quorum usu hactenus, extabant, et exstant, ab omnibus Incolis Regni [s. 14 / p. 15:] Nostri Locorum Præfectis, Theloneatoribus, eorumq[ue] Vicesgerentibus, et qui: busvis alijs observentur, serio mandamus edicimus, præcipimus, et omnino haberi volumus. Et quoniam hactenus eiusmodi Exercitium Jaculatorium, Summe ad defensionem Civitatis istius, et totius Regni necessarium, tantummo- do ex maioribus Bombardis, alias z Hakownic intermissis alijs, ob inopiam sumptus et impensarum, in usu fuisse deducitur: proinde inhærendo Juribus et Privilegijs præallegatis, de plenitudine Potestatis Nostræ Regiæ, eadem innovantes. Magistratui eiusdem Civitatis mandamus, et præcipimus, qua- tenus abhinc quolibet Anno, in eiusmodi Exercitio Jaculatorio, hunc ordi- nem observari curent, ut post Festum Sacri Paschatis, omnibus Civibus et Incolis Civitatis Nostræ Leopolien[sis], captato tempore, primo Jaculationem ex minoribus pixidibus, alias z Muszkietow instituant, quam decuriatim sive per Centurias, expedire tenebuntur; Porro ex maioribus Bombardis, nempe z Hakownic, stato tempore, et hactenus observato expediant. Deniq[ue] quolibet Triennio, ex Tormentis, post Festum Sancti Michaëlis Archangeli, Jaculationem eiusmodi, cum suis Ceremonijs, et requisitis, perficere tene: buntur, incipiendo eiusmodi Ordinem, Anno proxime imminenti, Millesi- mo Sexcentesimo Nonagesimo Nono, indilate. Quod vero attinet Loca ad eiusmodi expediendum exercitium Jaculationis, ex pixidibus, seu z Muszkietow, impedita, et a Ministris Artilleriæ Regni, occupata, nec huc- usq[ue], etiam ad sæpissimas Civium requisitiones, in manifestam Privile- gij Serenissimi Anteceſsoris Nostri, convulsionem, dimissa, quatenus idem Magistratus, apud Mag[ni]ficum Artilleriæ Regni Supremum Præfectum, in- stet, ut eiusmodi Loca ad iaculandum requisita, et necessaria deoccupa: re faciat, et restitui curet, mandamus. In cuius rei fidem, præsentes ma- nu Nostra subscriptas, Sigillo Regni communiri, iuſsimus. Datum Var- saviæ Die XVII Mensis Octobris, Anno Domini MDCCXXII. Regni vero Nostri Anno XXVIº Augustus Rex. Locus Sigilli pensilis Minoris Cancellariæ Regni. Adamus Stanislaus Grabowski Decanus Cath[edralis] Culmen[sis] S[acr]æ R[egi]æ M[aies]t[at]is Secretarius. NOS igitur AUGUSTUS REX. Supplicationi eiusmodi per Nobilem Nicolaum Sachagowicz Notarium, et Seniorem ad præsens eiusdem Confraternitatis Jacula- torum Leopolien[sium], ad NOS factæ, benigne annuendo, præinsertas [s. 15 / p. 16:] Literas, et omnia in eis contenta, approbandas, et confirmandas esse du- ximus, uti quidem: prout Juris sunt, et usus earum habetur; approbamus, et confirmamus præsentibus Literis Nostris, Decernendo easdem, vim et robur debitæ firmitatis, obtinere debere. In cuius rei Fidem præsentes Manu Nostra Subscriptas, Sigillo Regni communiri iuſsimus. Datum Varsaviæ Die Quinta Mensis Aprilis Anno Domini MDCCXXXIX, Regni vero Nostri VI. Anno. Augustus Rex [Nota intabulacyjna z lewej strony:] Intabuletur. Decretum in Consilio Regio Urbis Metropolitanæ Leopo- liensis Magistratus. die 11. Januarii 794. Aloisius Rzerbelski / m[anu] p[ropri]a [Nota kancelaryjna z prawej strony:] Confirmatio Jurium et Privi- legiorum Confraternitatis Ja- culatorum Leopolien[sis] Theodorus le Klevel Scholast[icus] Cathed[ralis] Livoniensis Can[oni]cus Viel[unensis?] S[acr]æ R[egi]æ M[aies]t[at]is & Sigilli Minoris Regni Secretarius [s. 16 / p. 17:] 244. Tabull 794 Libro Privilegiorum I. pag: 62. Nro 20. die 30 Januarii 794 ingrofs. Præsens Privilegium apud Leopolienses Tabulas Civicas Libro Privilegiorum Tomo 1. pag. 62. n. 20. ingr[ossum], et in Lib: Hæredit[atum] Tomo XX. pag. 221. quo ad fun- dum Zalborskie et molam, pag. 229. quo ad Lapideam Nro 92. tum Hæred: Tomo IV. pag. 385. quo ad fundos Celstat, atque Hæred: Tomo XV. pag. 213. super lapidea Nro 5. quo ad annuum censum 50. flp. prænotatum est. Die 30. Jan[uarii] 1794. Casimir Medyński m[anu] p[ropri]a Tabl[arum] C[ivicarum] Registrator [Nota podatkowa:] 98. Taxator Collationavit Anton: Kaszuba m[anu] p[ropri]a [Ślad po papierowej pieczęci pod romboidalną osłonką] [s. 17-20 / karty czyste; s. 21 / wyklejka barwna]