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Pope Gregory XIII notifies the people of the city and diocese of Lviv of the appointment of Jan Dymitr Solikowski to the office of archbishop following the death of his predecessor, Jan. He commands the faithful to receive their new shepherd with due reverence and to be obedient to his pastoral authority.

Pope Gregory XIII authorizes the Archbishop-elect of Lviv, Jan Dymitr Solikowski, to receive episcopal consecration from any Catholic bishop in communion with the Apostolic See. The condition for receiving the sacrament is the prior taking of the oath of fidelity cited in the text, a certified copy of which the elect must send to Rome under penalty of suspension.

Pope Gregory XIII grants the altar of St. Anne in the Church of St. Andrew of the Bernardines in Lviv the privilege of a privileged altar. By virtue of this, every mass for the dead celebrated at this altar by a friar of this convent brings an indulgence releasing a soul from purgatory.

King Stephen Báthory performs a transumpt and confirmation of sixteen decrees from 1578 issued in disputes between the council and the commonalty of Lwów and the Lwów Starosta, Mikołaj Herburt of Fulsztyn. The document resolves, among other things, issues of the election of councilors, municipal and castle jurisdiction, keys to the gates, billeting, tax obligations, and the use of mills.

The document transsumes and confirms a parliamentary judgment of King Stephen Báthory resolving a dispute between the authorities of the city of Lwów and the Lwów Starosta, Mikołaj Herburt. The King limits the number of craftsmen under the Starosta's jurisdiction, prohibits the operation of taverns and a new market in the suburb of Podzamcze, and confirms the ancient privileges of the burghers regarding the trade of salt and fish, exemption from customs and market fees, as well as cattle grazing and the use of royal forests.

King Stefan Batory approves the statutes of the carpenters' guild in Lviv, originally granted in 1562 by the city council, comprising twenty-three articles regulating the organization of the craft, apprenticeship, and the rights of masters and journeymen. Simultaneously, the monarch grants the Lviv carpenters' guild the same rights as the Krakow guild and prohibits 'partacze' (unauthorized craftsmen) and non-guild artisans from practicing the craft and selling their products within the city and its surroundings.

Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, together with the authorities of the Roman Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Body of Christ at the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, issues a transumpt of documents by Pope Paul III containing grants of indulgences. The act was drawn up at the request of Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski for the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament at the cathedral in Lviv in order to extend Roman spiritual privileges to it.

The authorities of the Roman archconfraternity at the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva perform a transumpt of the bull of Pope Gregory XIII from 1573 and, at the request of the Archbishop of Lviv, grant the indulgences contained therein to the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament at the cathedral in Lviv. The document confirms the right of the members of the Lviv confraternity to enjoy the spiritual privileges belonging to the Roman confraternity.

Pope Sixtus V, at the request of Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski and the community of Lviv, enriches the city's coat of arms by adding three hills and a star from his own family coat of arms to the lion figure. The document authorizes the city authorities to freely place and compose the new emblem according to needs and circumstances.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms and ratifies at the coronation sejm all rights, privileges, liberties, immunities, and ancient customs granted to the Armenian community of the city of Lviv by his predecessors.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms a 1586 document issued by the Starosta of Lviv, Mikołaj Herburt of Fulsztyn, granting the nobleman Zygmunt Poradowski a marshy plot in the Kraków Suburb of Lviv. The grant includes ownership and inheritance rights with a six-year tax exemption, after which the holder is obligated to pay an annual rent of 30 groszy.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms an entry from the Lviv land records, by which Anna Rosnowska, née Molfka, donated a house in the Podzamcze district of Lviv and meadows to Mikołaj, a former servant of Kazimierz Hynek, and his wife Anna. The monarch grants this perpetual donation permanent legal force.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms ten articles of the statute of the Lwów surgeons' guild, defining, among other things, the rules for obtaining master status, practicing the profession, the rights of widows, and defensive and medical obligations to the city. Furthermore, he orders the authorities of Lwów to admit surgeons to city meetings and councils under penalty of a heavy fine.

The Lviv Cathedral Chapter grants the miller Iwan Pieczifora, his wife Anastazja, and his son Iwan the right of triple life tenure for the mill. The users are obliged to pay a specified annual rent in quarterly installments and to perform all repairs and maintenance work at their own expense.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms and orders the transcription onto durable parchment of seven agreements concluded between the Lviv burghers and councilors and the local nobility, concerning the collection of customs, tolls, and cattle grazing fees (spasne). Under these agreements, the nobility pledged to respect the royal commercial immunities of Lviv and to refrain from collecting undue fees.

Archbishop of Lviv Jan Dymitr Solikowski, together with the cathedral chapter, grants his brother Wojciech Solikowski the village of Siemikowce for life and leases him the village of Marków for twelve years. In return, the recipient undertakes to pay annual fees, maintain economic facilities, and repair and maintain a fish pond damaged by a flood.

The document confirms the sale of rights and shares in the enclosed Tambir forest by Jan Ribullo of Padola to notary Jakub Glerio of Candide and his brother for the sum of 4 lire and 10 soldi. The copy of the deed was certified from the father's protocol by notary Baptista de Tullio.

Pope Gregory XIV notifies the Archbishop of Lviv of the transfer of Bishop Stanisław from the Diocese of Kamianets to the Diocese of Chełm. He instructs the Metropolitan to provide support to the new ordinary and his suffragan diocese, and to assist him in his governance and the protection of church rights.

The royal commissioners of Sigismund III Vasa renewed and heaped up boundary mounds separating the Lviv Chapter villages of Basiówka and Hodowica from the royal villages of Sknilów and Sokolniki. The document establishes the course of the borders according to ancient privileges and ensures the subjects of both sides the right to free cattle grazing.

Archbishop of Lwów Jan Dymitr Solikowski, together with the cathedral chapter, establishes and re-founds the office of the reeve in the town of Dunajów, entrusting it to the nobleman Marcin Żabka and his successors. The document grants the reeve jurisdiction under Magdeburg law and an endowment including two hides of land with meadows, a plot for a reeve's manor, the third penny from judicial fines, and the right to brew beer and fish.

The Voivode of Kiev, Prince Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, grants a soltys-ship with a free hide of land in the village of Mała Tuchla to Jaćko, son of Hołowczyc, and permits Iwan, son-in-law of Wasyl Hołowczyc, to erect a church. The document bears a later endorsement confirming the grant by the issuer's grandson, Prince Władysław Dominik Zasławski-Ostrogski.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the lifetime grant of land on Lion Mountain near Lwów made by the Lwów starosta Mikołaj Herburt to the neophyte Stanisław Tatar. The user is obliged to pay an annual rent of ten Polish groschen to the Lwów castle on St. Martin's Day.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the document issued by the Lviv Starosta, Mikołaj Herbort of Fulsztyn, to Jakub Czarnowski and his wife Dorota Todkowiecka, authorizing the construction of a dam, the establishment of a fish pond, and the erection of a mill on the Rokitna River, along with the granting of adjacent fields and meadows. The privilege specifies the amount of rent to be paid to the Lviv castle, the division of profits from draining the pond, and the assistance of local subjects with repairs.

King Sigismund III Vasa, approving the agreement between the Lviv Chapter and the city authorities, transfers to the mayor and councilors of Lviv the royal right of patronage and presentation of a learned clergyman to the metropolitan canonry of Lviv. At the same time, he orders Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski to institute the candidates presented by the magistrate.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the verdict of Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski and the agreement concluded between the Metropolitan Chapter of Lviv and the magistrate of the city of Lviv in a dispute over the patronage of the provostship of the Holy Spirit Hospital. Under the approved settlement, the Lviv councilors retain the right of presentation to the provostship, choosing a candidate from among the canons, and the chapter undertakes to support the granting to the magistrate of the right of presentation to a second canonry for an educated clergyman.

King Sigismund III Vasa approves and transumes the act of the royal commission of auditors from 1592, which established the course of the boundaries and the placement of boundary mounds between the royal village of Sokolniki, belonging to the Lwów starosta district, and the municipal estates of Lwów known as Kulparków.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski confirms a donation of 400 Polish zlotys made by Gabriel Rozen of Rożnów to the provost and mansionaries of the Lviv Cathedral. The foundation was secured in the form of an annual perpetual rent (wyderkaf) of 24 zlotys on the tenement house of the Lviv apothecary Hieronim Wedelski in exchange for the celebration of services and masses for the donor's soul.

King Sigismund III Vasa restores and confirms, at the request of Lviv, the annual fair on the day of St. Margaret, while preserving the existing fair on St. Agnes' day without prejudice. The ruler guarantees freedom of trade and royal protection and safety during travel to the arriving merchants and traders.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the privileges of the cloth cutters' guild in Lviv, transuming the diploma of Stephen Báthory from 1578 (containing the privilege of Sigismund I from 1541 regarding the exclusive right to retail cloth by the ell) and the act of the Lviv city council from 1594 establishing the clothiers' brotherhood.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski approves the donation of the right of patronage and possession of the Holy Cross Chapel in the Lviv Cathedral made by Stanisław Dirowic to the councilor Jan Scholc Wolfowicz, and also approves and incorporates into ecclesiastical immunity the new foundation and rental endowment established for this chapel by Scholc.

Archbishop of Lviv Jan Dymitr Solikowski, together with the cathedral chapter, establishes an annual anniversary for the soul of the Voivode of Podolia, Mikołaj Mielecki, and allocates funds for the clergy and church staff. The foundation is based on an annual rent of 30 florins secured on the estates of the village of Stryhańce.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski allocates episcopal revenues from Kamionka and Busk in perpetuity for the Lviv Chapter to perform annual funeral services for the repose of his soul. This grant was formally approved in 1606 by Archbishop Jan Tarnowski during a deanery visitation.

Metropolitan of Kiev Michael Rahoza, together with the Ruthenian bishops, announce their accession to unity with the Apostolic See and the conclusion of the union of the Ruthenian Church with the Roman Church in Brest. The document contains the signatures and seals of the hierarchs, as well as later provenance and oblation entries.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the privilege of Stephen Báthory from 1576, which transumed the document of Sigismund I the Old from 1533 for the tailors' guild in Lviv. The act regulates the organization of the tailors' brotherhood, fees, master examinations, and protection against non-guild craftsmen.

A document by King Sigismund III Vasa establishing and approving uniform rates for duties collected by the Lwów magistrate on imported Greek, Malmsey, Hungarian, Moravian, and Dalmatian wines. Modeling the regulations on Kraków privileges, the monarch allocates these revenues to the maintenance of the municipal office and specifies penalties for non-compliance.

The Lviv councilors limit the number of members of the clothiers' guild to twenty, exclusively of the Catholic faith, establishing a requirement of city citizenship for the admission of a new master. They further commit to approving internal guild statutes and resolving unsettled disputes among guild brothers.

King Sigismund III Vasa permits Stanisław Tatarzyn, a convert to Catholicism, to transfer land held for life under Lion Mountain to the Benedictine convent in Lviv. The monarch approves this cession and exempts the land granted to the convent from the annual rent previously paid to the Lviv castle.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the ancient privilege of King Casimir Jagiellon guaranteeing Lviv an annual fair on Saint Agnes' Day, along with freedom of trade for arriving merchants. At the same time, the monarch cancels and abolishes the fair on Saint Margaret's Day as burdensome and useless to the townspeople.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the former privileges granted to the marksmen of the city of Lviv by his predecessors, Kings Sigismund Augustus and Henry of Valois.

King Sigismund III Vasa clarifies the privilege of Stefan Batory, specifying the rules for cloth trade, the retailing of alcoholic beverages, and the limit of permitted Armenian craftsmen in Lwów. The document confirms the rights of both nations to trade, setting the framework for Armenian tailoring, tavern-keeping, and craft activities under penalty of a fine.

King Sigismund III Vasa settles a dispute between the municipal authorities and the Armenian community in Lviv, setting the limit of hereditary Armenian houses at seventy-three, excluding church buildings and the hospital from this count. He further orders the Armenians to sell back houses located at the Market Square and a stall to Catholics within one year in exchange for the return of the invested sums, prohibiting them from further transactions within the Market Square area.

Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Archbishop of Lviv, together with the cathedral chapter, grants his brother Wojciech Solikowski the life-long use of a mill, a pond, and the labor services of subjects in Siemikowce. In return, the recipient is obliged to maintain the facilities in proper condition and continue serving the Church.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski approves the statutes and liturgical order of the College of Mansionaries of the Lviv Metropolitan Church, defining their liturgical duties, rules of communal life, and penalties for misconduct. He also grants them the right to enact further regulations in consultation with the ordinary.

Jerzy of Goraj Czuryło and his wife Zofia cede the mill in the village of Hodwisznia, along with land and income, to Nastka, widow of the miller Iwaszko Bury, for the sum of 400 Polish zlotys. They reserve the right to redeem and reclaim the mill if necessary upon repayment of the aforementioned sum, while simultaneously exempting the miller from most burdens.

Archbishop of Lviv Jan Dymitr Solikowski approves the statute and order of Christian funerals and services for the deceased poor at the Holy Spirit Hospital in Lviv. The document regulates prayers, alms contributions, the storage of liturgical equipment, the priest's remuneration, and grants members of the brotherhood forty days of indulgence annually.

Pope Clement VIII notifies the inhabitants of the city and diocese of Lviv of the transfer of the Bishop of Chełm, Jan Zamoyski, to the vacant archiepiscopal see in Lviv. He commands the faithful to receive the new hierarch as their father and shepherd of souls, showing him due respect and obedience.

Pope Clement VIII notifies the cathedral chapter in Lviv of the transfer of the Bishop of Philippopolis, Jan, to the archiepiscopal see of Lviv, vacated after the death of Archbishop Jan Dymitr. He orders the canons to show the new ordinary full obedience and reverence under penalty of ecclesiastical sanctions against the disobedient.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the statute and articles of the furriers' guild in the town of Stary Sambor.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the agreement concluded between the city council and the commonalty of Lwów regarding financial management, municipal revenues, election procedures, vacancies of councilors, and trade rights. The monarch introduces reservations concerning the frequency of commonalty meetings, the control of imported goods, and the rights of outgoing councilors.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the agreement ending the dispute between the municipal council and the commonalty of Lviv. The document regulates, among other things, the accounting of municipal revenues, the election of councilors, and the collection of fees.