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Armand informs Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski of Queen Marie Casimire's delight with the work he sent and her order to have copies made. He also reports on the court's imminent departure from Warsaw to Ruthenia, expressing his joy at the prospect of meeting the Voivode in person.

Arnaud informs the Voivode of Volhynia about the delivery of his letter to Queen Marie Casimire and explains the reasons for the delay in receiving a response due to the monarch's stay with the Carmelites. He also reports on the Queen's planned departure for Prussia immediately after Easter and the ongoing preparations for the voyage.

J. G. de Baluze addresses the grievances of the Voivode of Volhynia and the Grand Hetman against the French ambassador, attributing the accusations to intrigues and rumors. He assures the recipient of the diplomat's continued attachment to the Jabłonowski family and of his own loyalty.

Baluze expresses his condolences on the death of the King and solidarity with the widowed Queen, then reports on the situation in Piedmont, the mood in Vienna, and rumors of secret peace negotiations. He also mentions Swedish troop movements in Livonia, anxiety in Prussia, and the arrival of a Dutch fleet in Gdańsk.

J. G. de Baluze informs the Voivode of Volhynia about the preparations of French envoys for their departure to peace negotiations following the receipt of passports from the allies. He also conveys the French ambassador's concern regarding rumors about the illness of the Grand Hetman of the Crown, Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski.

King Alexander Jagiellon orders Ruthenian and Podolian officials, including the Starosta of Lwów, to assist the burghers of Lwów in enforcing the staple right by arresting merchants bypassing Lwów and confiscating their goods for the royal treasury.

King Alexander Jagiellon exempts the subjects of the village of Honiatycze, belonging to the Lviv Chapter, for 15 years from all labor services and stationing for the Lviv castle due to the destruction caused by Turks and Tatars. He orders the Lviv Starosta, Stanisław of Chodecz, and his successors to strictly observe this relief.

King Alexander Jagiellon, at the request of the councilors and burghers of Lviv, abolishes the annual fair held on the feast of Saint Agnes. The decision was motivated by the devastation of the Ruthenian lands due to enemy invasions and the fact that merchant gatherings at that time brought the city more harm and danger than benefit.

King Alexander Jagiellon grants the Metropolitan Chapter in Lviv permission to redeem the royal village of Czerkasy from the current tenants and grants it to them as property with immunity. Furthermore, the King grants a free bank within the borders of the village of Mszana for the construction of a fish pond.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms the donation of the estates of Zydatycze and Maleczkowice to the Cathedral Chapter in Lviv, made by the late Jan of Maleczkowice. Due to the rights of the donor's heirs, the King limits the approved donation to one-third of the property, imposing on the Chapter the obligation of military service and public burdens.

Arbitrators led by the Voivode of Podolia Paweł Koła and Marshal Stanisław of Chodecz resolve a dispute concerning assault and wounding between the nobleman Hieronim Dobrostański and the councillors and commonalty of Lwów.

King Sigismund I grants the cathedral chapter in Lviv permission to purchase, under the right of 'wyderkauf' (redeemable rent), an annual rent worth up to four hundred marks from landed or urban estates to support the clergy. The property acquired in this manner is perpetually exempted from the obligation of all military expeditions.

King Sigismund I grants permission to Master Michael, notary of Lviv, to purchase a third part of the Baker's Mill in the Lviv suburb for the sum of fifty marks. He records this amount for him, along with the right to collect one-third of the mill's income, with the obligation to bear one-third of the repair costs.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms the privilege of King Casimir IV Jagiellon from 1472, which established two annual fairs in Lwów for the feasts of the Holy Trinity and St. Agnes. The document regulates detailed trade rights, the staple right, customs duties, grazing of merchant cattle, and judicial jurisdiction over merchants.

King Sigismund I orders royal officials to assist representatives of Lwów in confiscating goods and detaining merchants who bypass the Lwów staple. He warns officials that any losses resulting from their lack of cooperation will be recovered from their own estates.

Franciszek Broniewski asks the Judge of Bełz for amicable mediation in a protracted court case against the Chamberlain. He complains about losses incurred in the lease and financial oppression, referring the addressee to the attached documents and contract.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the General Sejm in Piotrków, settles a dispute between the burghers of Lviv and the Jews, introducing an ordinance limiting the commercial activities of Lviv and suburban Jews. The document prohibits them, among other things, from home-based and itinerant trade, forbids the sale of spices and silk, and strictly regulates the trade in cloth, wax, hides, and oxen.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms the settlement ruling of a royal commission regulating the rates and collection principles for customs, bridge tolls, causeway tolls, and market fees on the route from Lviv to Wallachia. The privilege protects Lviv burghers and merchants from arbitrary and burdensome charges by defining tariffs for specific localities in Ruthenia and Podolia.

King Sigismund I authorizes the authorities of Lviv to collect a fee of half a grosz from every wagon of refugees seeking shelter in the city from enemy invasions. The funds obtained are to cover the costs of cleaning the city of mud and filth and repairing the city walls, ramparts, and moats.

Ferdinand Engelhardt informs Robert Forbes about the shipment of cloth via Wieruszów to Jarosław and current merchant correspondence. He also discusses the collection of cash, debt payment deadlines, and difficulties in obtaining bills of exchange before the Leipzig fair.

King Sigismund I the Old forbids merchants traveling between Turkey and Wallachia and Lithuania and Muscovy from bypassing the Lwów staple right and customs duties by traveling through Kamieniec and side roads. He orders the starostas and municipal authorities of Ruthenia and Podolia to arrest merchants violating the ban without exception and to provide assistance to the envoys of the city of Lwów.

The judge and deputy judge of the Kraków land court certify the decree of King Sigismund I resolving a dispute between customs officers and merchants regarding routes for driving cattle and transporting goods from Ruthenia, Podolia, Volhynia, and Moldavia. According to the judgment, cattle and goods from Ruthenia, Podolia, and Moldavia must be directed through Lwów, Gródek, and Przemyśl to Sandomierz, while those from Volhynia through Lublin and Radom, under penalty of confiscation.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the request of the Lviv city authorities, moves the annual fair from the Feast of the Holy Trinity to the Feast of Saint Margaret, exempting arriving merchants from customs duties. At the same time, he confirms the holding of the fair on the Feast of Saint Agnes, maintaining the existing obligation to pay customs duties.

King Sigismund I the Old cancels a former record of King Władysław for one hundred marks and grants Dobrogost Pełka forty marks, which are to be paid to him by the tenant of the royal village of Kozłów, Maciej, the castellan (wojski) of Żydaczów. The paid sum of forty marks is simultaneously added to the pledge sums secured for Maciej on the same village.

M. Wyżycki congratulates the Hetman and Voivode of Ruthenia, Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, on the successful marriage of the Crown Chorąży, putting an end to local speculations and bets regarding the wedding date. He also reports on the King's return from a hunt in Prussia and announces that more extensive news will be sent via Colonel Glanczof.

M. Wyżycki reports to the Voivode of Ruthenia on King Augustus II's efforts to resolve the conflict in Lithuania, plans to convene a pacification sejm, and the submission of the Sapieha and Lubomirski families to the monarch's will, despite the ongoing resistance of Primate Radziejowski. He also informs about the mood in the army, the burdens associated with the presence of Saxon troops, and current court and diplomatic events.

Michał Wyżycki informs the Voivode of Volhynia, Jan Klemens Branicki, of the sudden death of King John III Sobieski and the grief it has left behind. He also reports on the initial maneuvers of the factions of the Queen and Prince Jakub, as well as the senators arriving in Warsaw ahead of the council and convocation.

King Sigismund I settles a dispute between the customs lessee Andrzej of Tęczyn and the Lviv burghers, allowing Lviv merchants to travel through Kraków and Sandomierz to Lublin and beyond, bypassing the customs chambers in Bełz, Chełm, and Hrubieszów, while ordering them to return via these routes if they abandon their further journey. At the same time, he suspends Lviv's customs exemption in these three chambers solely for the duration of the lease of the Tęczyński family's estates, while confirming the general customs privilege of King Alexander.

Zofia, widow of Stanisław Hynk, Chamberlain of Łęczyca, donates to her cousin Mikołaj Gołąbek, Sub-judge of Lwów, her entire hereditary share in the village of Zimna Woda, excluding the portion belonging to her sons. The document certifies the granting of intromission and the donor's obligation to legally defend the recipient against any claims.

King Sigismund I the Old orders royal and municipal officials to assist Lviv burghers in detaining merchants who bypass the Lviv staple right. He prohibits the illegal transport of oxen, wax, and other goods from Ruthenia and Podolia, bypassing Lviv and the due customs duties, under penalty of financial sanctions.

King Sigismund I the Old grants in perpetuity to the canons of the metropolitan church in Lviv the third measure of the royal mill near the Halych Gate. The document simultaneously defines the obligations of the chapter and the starosta regarding the costs of repair and maintenance of the mill.

The Sub-chamberlain of Lwów, Wojciech Starzechowski, certifies the raising of boundary mounds and the legal establishment of borders between the estates of the Lwów Chapter (Żydatycze), Michał Chomątowski (Dublany), and Zofia Hynkowa (Sroki). For any violation of the established boundaries, the parties set a penalty (wadium) of one hundred marks.

King Sigismund I the Old, considering the location of Lwów on the threatened borderland and the merits of the local craftsmen in defending the city walls, exempts the Lwów guilds from the general order of dissolution of brotherhoods in the Crown and solemnly confirms all their existing rights, statutes, and privileges.

King Sigismund I the Old grants the authorities of Lviv permission to erect a fulling mill on municipal land, with the stipulation that the income derived from it must be used exclusively for the strengthening and repair of the city's fortifications. The monarch guarantees the city exclusivity in operating this facility in the area, prohibiting the construction of competing fulling mills.

King Sigismund I the Old forbids the authorities of Lviv from opening the city gates at night at the request of the nobility and magnates due to war threats on the borderlands, allowing exceptions only in cases of urgent and supreme state necessity. At the same time, he forbids anyone from pressuring the city councilors under threat of severe royal penalties.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms to the mayor and councilors of the city of Lviv the exclusive right to elect and appoint city intermediaries and interpreters (known as 'mejlerze' and interpreters) in accordance with ancient custom. The monarch forbids royal officials from interfering with this municipal prerogative under any pretext.

King Sigismund I the Old orders the tax collectors of the Ruthenian lands to maintain the Armenian and Ruthenian clergy in Lviv in their ancient custom of paying public taxes and performing municipal duties jointly and equally with other Lviv burghers.

Archbishop of Lviv Piotr Starzechowski performs an oblation and transsumption of a document by Primate Jan Latalski containing a brief of Pope Paul III from 1538. The act confirms the exemption of mendicant friars in the Kingdom of Poland from the jurisdiction of diocesan bishops and prohibits the violation of their privileges.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the general sejm in Kraków, approves and renews for the mayor, councilors, and citizens of Lwów all existing rights, privileges, liberties, immunities, and customs granted to the city by previous monarchs and by himself.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms the privileges exempting the burghers and inhabitants of Lwów from the jurisdiction of noble, land, and castle courts. All their cases are to be heard exclusively before the proper municipal court of Magdeburg Law, under penalty of nullity of any other judgments.

King Sigismund I the Old grants a privilege to the city of Lwów, stating that the burghers of Lwów are not obliged to present or show their rights and documents before any officials or commissioners, but only personally before the King and his successors within the borders of the Kingdom of Poland.

King Sigismund II Augustus confirms to the Archbishop of Lviv, Piotr Starzechowski, the chapter, and the clergy of the metropolitan church in Lviv all rights, privileges, freedoms, and immunities granted by his predecessors. This confirmation was issued at the General Sejm in Piotrków in fulfillment of the monarch's coronation oath.

King Sigismund II Augustus confirms to the elders and the community of Lwów Armenians all rights, privileges, liberties, immunities, and ancient customs granted by his predecessors, including King Sigismund I the Old.

Archbishop of Rimini, Jan Davia, thanks the Hetman and Voivode of Ruthenia, Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, for his remembrance and shares pessimistic reflections on the affairs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the consequences of the peace treaty with Turkey. He also notes that in the current situation, the only concerns may arise from Prussia.

King Sigismund II Augustus exempts the Armenians of Lwów from the jurisdiction of all land and castle courts, placing them exclusively under the jurisdiction of the wójt (advocatus) and Armenian elders judging according to Armenian law. All appeals from this court are reserved exclusively for the royal court.

The Marquis d'Arquien informs Hetman Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski that due to the lack of designated payment from the Prussian treasury and from the Voivode of Poznań, the previously concluded settlement has become void. Due to the failure to meet the terms of the agreement, the author of the letter announces a return to his original financial claims and asks the Hetman for instructions.

King Sigismund II Augustus confirms the ancient custom of the municipal gatekeepers in Lwów collecting a fee in the form of one piece of firewood and a bundle of hay or straw from every cart and sleigh entering the city. In return, the gate guards are obliged to keep the passages clean and ensure convenient entry into Lwów.

King Sigismund II Augustus abolishes the burdensome tribute in kind of live fish, hitherto paid by the burghers of Lwów to the royal castle, replacing it with a fixed monetary fee collected from vessels containing fish brought to the city market. He orders the Starosta of Lwów and his officials to strictly observe the newly established market tax.

King Sigismund II Augustus confirms the privilege of King Władysław III of Varna from 1444, which mandates that the nobility and clergy sell Lviv real estate to Lviv burghers within one year. Additionally, the monarch introduces mandatory official valuation of encumbered properties by the magistrate under oath and prohibits the artificial inflation of mortgage debts beyond the estimated value.

King Sigismund II Augustus confirms the privilege of King Władysław Jagiełło from 1433, granting the village of Wierzbiąż in the Lviv district, along with all benefits, forests along the Dniester, and customs duties, to the canons of the Lviv Cathedral Chapter founded by him. The document guarantees the Chapter perpetual possession of these goods and the right to build dams and ponds.