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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Zamoyski approves the new foundation of a prebend for the sixth mansionary at the Lviv Cathedral, established by the apothecary Maciej Jaslikowski and his wife Marta, née Pajączek. The mansionary's endowment was secured on half of the Pajączek tenement house in Lviv with a sum of 400 Polish zlotys, providing an annual perpetual rent (wyderkaf) of 24 zlotys.

King Sigismund III Vasa incorporates the provostry in Busk into the office of the archdeacon, renewed at the Lviv cathedral, in order to provide it with proper endowment. At the same time, the monarch renounces the royal right of patronage over this provostry in favor of the Archbishop and the Lviv Chapter.

Apostolic Nuncio Claudio Rangoni, by papal authority, approves the act of Archbishop Jan Zamoyski establishing the dignity of Archdeacon at the Lviv Cathedral and incorporating the Provostry in Busk into it. He also confirms the appointment of the first Archdeacon, Doctor of Theology Tomasz Pirawski, to this office.

The document confirms the ordinance of the Surgeons' Guild in Lviv, which was reformed and supplemented by the municipal authorities in 1611. King Sigismund III Vasa approves the submitted guild articles regulating, among other things, professional practice, master examinations, and the functioning of the brotherhood.

The Lviv Metropolitan Chapter approves an arbitration award settling a dispute between the college of cathedral vicars and the carpenter Melchior Terszowicz regarding the Stawińskie plot near the Krakow Gate in Lviv. The document grants the vicars superior ownership and Terszowicz the right of emphyteusis in exchange for an annual rent and an obligation to build two houses.

King Sigismund III Vasa approves the guild articles submitted to him by the brotherhood of coppersmiths from the Halych Suburb in Lviv, regulating the organization of the guild, religious duties, the admission of apprentices and journeymen, the rights of widows, craft standards, and disciplinary penalties. Notes on the reverse indicate the registration (oblatio) of the document in the Lviv castle court records, and its subsequent annulment due to it being obtained without the knowledge of the magistrate, contrary to a royal decree.

The document establishes a scholarship foundation by Lviv canon Adam Wawrzyniec Łoiecki, funded by an annual 'wyderkaf' (redeemable rent) of 119 florins secured on the revenues of the city of Lviv, intended for the education of two poor youths from Lviv at the Krakow Academy. It specifies the payment amounts for the students and their university preceptor, imposes prayer duties on the scholarship holders, and appoints provisors to oversee the perpetual functioning of the endowment.

The City Council of Lviv approves the statute of the coppersmiths' guild, establishing religious and organizational duties for guild brothers, rules for training apprentices and admitting journeymen as masters, as well as regulations for trade and copper processing.

Lviv councilor Jerzy Boim, together with his wife Jadwiga and his family, allocates the sum of 2100 florins invested in Lviv townhouses to endow the Chapel of the Holy Trinity and the Passion of Christ, which he founded at the cathedral cemetery in Lviv. The document defines the right of patronage, the principles of fund management, the duties of four priests led by a senior, the order of services, and the right of burial.

King Sigismund III Vasa establishes a new annual fair for the city of Lwów falling on the feast of Saint Margaret, lasting for three weeks, independent of the former fair on Saint Agnes' day. The document guarantees freedom of trade and safety to arriving merchants under the protection of a royal safe-conduct letter.

Cajetan Cristallini proposes to the authorities of Lviv that they send 100 ducats to Rome to be paid to the widow of the late Franciszek Stefanoni in exchange for the return of municipal documents. He also offers his legal services before the Roman Curia.

King Sigismund III Vasa approves the agreement concluded before royal commissioners between the magistrate and the commonalty of the three nations of the city of Lwów regarding the repayment of municipal debts. The document establishes the division of financial burdens amounting to over 35,000 florins and the payment deadlines for individual installments from the city's income and assets.

The document approves the foundation of a new mansionary priest and the legacies of wyderkauf rents on Lviv tenement houses established by Fr. Krzysztof Sikorski for the college of mansionaries of the Lviv Cathedral. It also specifies the liturgical duties of the beneficiaries and entrusts the right of patronage over the founded prebend to the Lviv magistrate.

The Metropolitan Chapter of Lwów and the municipal authorities of Lwów approve the sale of the former residence of the provost of the Holy Spirit Hospital to the Jesuits for the construction of a college, and the acquisition of a new tenement house from Kosma Salwago on Szewska Street for the sum of 10,800 Polish florins. The newly purchased building was placed under ecclesiastical immunity, with the reservation of the inviolability of the city's and chapter's patronage rights and a prohibition on operating a tavern or crafts within it.

The document confirms an agreement between the Metropolitan Chapter and the City Council of Lwów regarding the purchase of the Kosma Salvago tenement house as a residence for the provost of the Holy Spirit Hospital, in exchange for a house sold to the Jesuits, including the exemption of the new property from municipal jurisdiction and its inclusion under ecclesiastical immunity. The act specifies the conditions for managing this property and the rules for maintaining patronage rights and potential future exchange of the building.

Apostolic Nuncio Giovanni Battista Lancellotti, by the authority of Pope Urban VIII, confirms the rights of patronage, foundation, and administration of the Lviv city councilors over the Holy Spirit Hospital. The confirmation is based on ancient royal and archiepiscopal privileges, as well as papal bulls.

Pope Urban VIII notifies the Archbishop of Lviv of the provision of Remigiusz Koniecpolski to the See of Chełm, vacant following the translation of Maciej Łubieński to Poznań. He simultaneously urges the metropolitan to provide the new suffragan bishop and his entrusted church with benevolent support and care.

King Sigismund III Vasa grants the shooting brotherhood in Lviv the perpetual right to collect fees from cattle driven and grazed by merchants in order to improve its income, which had been depleted by fires and plague.

King Sigismund III Vasa grants the city of Lwów the perpetual right to collect duties on goods (the so-called 'sztukowe' or 'węzłowe'), as well as on grain, beer, and mead. The income from these duties is divided: two-thirds are allocated for the city's needs and fortifications, and one-third for the remuneration of the city council's efforts.

The City Council of Lwów, under the leadership of Mayor Erasmus Sixtus, approves and renews a set of fourteen regulatory articles for the Lwów shoemakers' guild, based on ancient royal privileges and the law of Kraków. The statute regulates, among other things, master requirements, the prohibition of unauthorized work, relations with tanners and cordwainers, market stall issues, and the religious and guild duties of the guild brethren.

Pope Urban VIII notifies the clergy and faithful of the city and diocese of Lviv of the appointment of Stanisław Grochowski to the office of Archbishop of Lviv following the death of Jan Andrzej Próchnicki. He calls upon the inhabitants to receive their new shepherd with due reverence and to be obedient to his pastoral instructions.

Pope Urban VIII authorizes the nominee Stanisław Grochowski to receive episcopal consecration from any Catholic bishop in communion with the Apostolic See, provided that an oath of fidelity is taken beforehand. The document contains the full text of the oath to be sworn by the newly appointed Archbishop of Lviv.

King Władysław IV confirms the decree of Sigismund III from 1607 in the dispute between the inhabitants of Zamarstynów and the authorities of Lwów. According to the verdict, the corvée labor due to the city may be converted by the magistrate into labor services at the Zamarstynów manor, provided that their extent does not exceed the city obligations.

King Władysław IV examines a dispute over an unpaid debt between Maciej Fik of Gdańsk and the Lwów Armenian Gabriel Bernatowicz, and confirms the privilege of Sigismund Augustus exempting Armenians from answering before commission courts. On this basis, the monarch refers the case to the competent Armenian court in Lwów.

King Władysław IV grants the city of Lwów the perpetual right to collect a fee known as 'sztukowe' or 'węzłowe' (bale/knot duty) from foreign merchants' goods, extending the privilege of Sigismund III to support the city's ruined finances. From the proceeds of this duty, the King further allocates 200 Polish florins annually for the mayor and councilors of Lwów.

King Władysław IV confirms a document of the Lwów city authorities from 1425 regarding the clearing of forest lands, the foundation of the village of Kulparków, and the granting of two free hides to Paweł Goltberg, along with the specification of the tax-free period and judicial jurisdiction.

King Władysław IV Vasa confirms and approves the document of erection and the right of patronage over St. Lazarus Hospital in the Lwów suburb, issued by the provisors and seniors of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

King Władysław IV confirms the existing rights, concessions, and acquired lands of the holders of hides in the Lwów suburb of Kleparów. In return, he imposes on them the obligation to pay traditional rents to the municipal treasury, perform corvée labor (szarwark) for one day per month, transport materials for wall repairs, and pay military taxes.

The document certifies the admission of Mikołaj Bajdułowicz, an Armenian originally from Suceava, to the citizenship of Lviv after he took an oath of allegiance to the King and the city. The city councilors request customs officials to respect his status as a burgher and to exempt him and his goods from all customs duties, tolls, and fees.

Lviv Archbishop Stanisław Grochowski approves the foundation of a new scholasticate prelatry at the metropolitan cathedral in Lviv, established by Royal Secretary Jan Karol Czołhański and endowed with the estates of Czołhany, Bełejów, Wełdzisz, and others in the Żydaczów district. The act defines the right of patronage of the Czołhański family (Sas coat of arms), the scholastic's endowment, mass obligations, and funds for the capitular tribunal deputy and anniversary services.

Pope Urban VIII instructs the Cantor and Custos of Przemyśl to enforce a final second-instance judgment granting the Lviv Cathedral Chapter the administration and rights to the St. Lazarus Hospital in Lviv, in a dispute with the Lviv Dominicans. He orders them to set a final deadline for the opposing party to prove any potential appeal, and in its absence, to execute the ruling and assess legal costs.

Apostolic Palace Auditor Krzysztof Widman issues a decree in the dispute between the Lviv Cathedral Chapter and the Dominican Order regarding the administration of the property of St. Lazarus Hospital in Lviv. The act formally notifies the parties of the decision to lift the previous inhibition based on the appellate procedure.

Pope Innocent X informs King Władysław IV of the translation of Mikołaj, Bishop of Wenden, to the Archbishopric of Lwów, left vacant after the death of Archbishop Stanisław. He urges the monarch to extend royal favor and protection to the new metropolitan and the Church of Lwów entrusted to him.

Pope Innocent X sends the metropolitan pallium to the newly appointed Archbishop of Lviv, Mikołaj Krosnowski. He mandates the Bishops of Poznań and Kamieniec to ceremonially bestow the insignia and receive the oath of fidelity to the Apostolic See from the Archbishop.