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Provost of the Holy Spirit Hospital Jan Myszkowski and the mayor and councilors of Lviv submit the dispute over the management of the hospital and its assets to the Lviv canons as arbitrators. The parties undertake in good faith to submit to the amicable settlement under penalty of 200 florins.

Lviv Archbishop Bernard Wilczek certifies an agreement between the Lviv Cathedral Chapter and Provost Stanisław Wilczek regarding the granting of the first place to him for life in the church, chapter, and at the table as a canon. The agreement reserves the rights of future successors to the Lviv provostry to pursue their own claims.

Felix Caspar Georg Bore informs Arthur Forbes about an order for lace to be delivered to Mr. Edtmüller for the St. Paul's fair. He also requests that Edtmüller be instructed to pay the amount due in full-value bill currency to avoid exchange rate losses.

Felix Caspar Georg Bore informs Arthur Forbes that the ordered goods were defectively manufactured by craftsmen and had to be returned. He assures that a new production has been commissioned and the finished assortment will be sent around Michaelmas.

B. Werner thanks Arthur Forbes for his New Year's wishes and regrets that they missed each other during his passage through Jarosław. He informs him about waiting for the supply wagons, searching for new cargo, and the potential redirection of the transport to Zamość depending on news from Lviv.

Before the Lviv land court, Jadwiga of Olesko, wife of the Podolian Voivode Marcin Kamieniecki, endowed the Archbishop of Lviv, Bernard Wilczek, with an annual rent (wyderkaf) of 10 grzywnas from a sum of 400 florins. This income, secured on the customs and ponds in Załoźce and Olesko, was designated for the maintenance of a lamp before the altar of St. George in the Lviv Cathedral.

King Sigismund II Augustus confirms the right of the Lviv Metropolitan Chapter to collect bridge and causeway tolls in the village of Wierzbiż, originally granted by Władysław Jagiełło, and establishes a detailed tariff of fees intended for necessary repairs of roads, causeways, and bridges.

Antonio, son of Nicola of Carzano, sells a garden and a meadow located in Carzano to Giovanni Battista Buffa of Telve di Sotto. The transaction is paid for and notarized in the presence of witnesses.

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 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.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Tarnowski approves the foundational endowments of brothers Marcin and Maciej Rzechowski and solemnly erects and endows a prebend at the church and hospital of St. Barbara in the suburbs of Rohatyn. The document details the liturgical duties of the prebendary, the management of the poor funds, and the right of patronage belonging to the founders, their Catholic successors in the Kutcze estate, and the Rohatyn magistrate.

Archbishop of Lviv Jan Tarnowski performs the erection, endowment, and legal approval of the provostry at the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Domagaliczowska) at the Lviv Cathedral, consolidating foundations and monetary legacies for a total amount of 10,200 Polish zlotys. The document defines the mass obligations of the provost and two priests, the distribution of income from rents, and establishes an alternating right of patronage between the archbishop and the Lviv magistrate.

King John III Sobieski confirms the privilege of Sigismund Augustus from 1572 (transumed by kings John Casimir and Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki), which equalized the Greek Rite burghers and suburbanites of Lviv with Roman Catholic burghers in terms of municipal, guild, and commercial rights. The document guarantees them, among other things, access to municipal offices, freedom of trade and crafts, and the right to acquire real estate in Lviv.