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Archbishop of Lviv Bernard Wilczek confirms the erection and endowment of an altar in the Lviv Cathedral made by Dean Jan Krowicki. The endowment consists of an annual rent of 22 florins purchased from the authorities of Lviv on the property of the village of Dworzyska, transumed in the content of the document.

Royal commissioners resolve a property dispute between the widow and daughters of the late councilor Jan Kosnar and the Lwów chamberlain Mikołaj Odnowski. The case concerns the repayment of a 350-florin mortgage debt and the return of a tenement house located in the Lwów market square.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms the 1533 letter of the royal commissioners establishing the detailed delimitation of the village of Wierbiąż, belonging to the Lviv Chapter, from the royal estates of Demnia, Drohowyże, and Uście, leased by Paweł Tarło. The document describes the course of the boundary marked by 32 mounds and signs on trees and adjudicates to the Chapter the rights to the waters of the Zubrza, Szczerzec, and Dniester rivers.

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.

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 II Augustus abolishes the old Lwów custom excluding grandchildren from inheriting from their grandparents and establishes the right of representation, equalizing their share in the inheritance with uncles and aunts. Furthermore, he entrusts the mayor and councilors of Lwów with full authority to resolve all existing inheritance disputes of this kind without the possibility of appeal to the King.

The Bishop of Warmia and Chancellor Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski sends New Year's greetings from Toruń to the Voivode of Ruthenia. He also reports on the arrival of the Bishop and Voivode of Chełmno for an audience with the King and a joint dinner at the royal court.

Bishop of Warmia Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski informs the Voivode of Ruthenia, Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski, about the dissolution of the General Assembly of Royal Prussia in Malbork, caused by mutual animosities and disputes over the marshal's staff. He also mentions tensions surrounding the appointment of commissioners for hiberna and the issue of indigenate.

King Henry Valois, at the coronation sejm, confirms all rights, privileges, immunities, and customs granted to the Lviv Armenian community by his predecessors. He orders royal officials and the municipal authorities of Lviv to strictly observe and protect the Lviv Armenians.

King Stefan Batory confirms all rights, privileges, immunities, and ancient customs granted to the Armenian community of Lwów by his predecessors. The monarch orders the Starosta of Lwów and the municipal authorities to observe and protect these rights inviolably.

King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki confirms and transumes the privilege of John II Casimir from 1650 and Władysław IV from 1633, which approved the guild statute granted in 1627 by the city council of Lwów to the combined crafts of maltsters, brewers, and mead-makers.

King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, at the request of the seniors of the Armenian nation, confirms the 1661 privilege of John II Casimir, which equated the city of Lwów and its citizens of Roman Catholic, Armenian, and Greek rites in rights and prerogatives with Kraków and Wilno. The burghers of Lwów obtain and retain noble rights, including the right to participate in royal elections, acquire landed estates, and parliamentary representation.

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.

The Crown Council gathered at the Warsaw convocation orders the authorities of Lwów to release the jewels of the Republic held in the city – the crown and the unicorn – to the Voivode of Lublin, Jan Tarło, as payment for a debt. At the same time, they release the magistrate from a previous obligation requiring the return of the valuables exclusively to the Starosta of Sącz, Stanisław Mężyk.