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At the request of the Uniate and non-Uniate Ruthenians, the King schedules a general synod in Lviv for October 28, 1629. The city authorities are to ensure the safety of the participants, prevent riots, cooperate with the royal envoy, and assist the Metropolitan of Kyiv. They should designate quarters and lodging for the clergy and other participants in advance.

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 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, 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.

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 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 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.

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.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms to the Mikulicz brothers, burghers of Halych, the rights to a share of a mill on the Lipa River belonging to the Halych starosta district, received by virtue of a previous grant from the late Voivode Stanisław Włodek.

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.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the privilege of King Sigismund II Augustus from 1550 regarding the grant of a garden with a manor or farmstead and meadows in Lviv to the mansionaries of the Lviv Cathedral.

King Sigismund III Vasa transfers the collection of starosta revenues to the Lwów magistrate in exchange for a fixed annual fee of 2100 florins and authorizes the collection of a storage fee from merchants for the construction of new city fortifications. The document simultaneously limits the competencies of the Lwów starosta in favor of municipal jurisdiction and regulates the issue of quartering.

King Władysław IV Vasa confirms the transumed privileges of his predecessors – Sigismund II Augustus, Stephen Báthory, and Sigismund III Vasa – concerning the foundation of the village of Podgrodzie in the Rohatyn starosta district under Magdeburg law and its transformation into a town.

King John II Casimir confirms to the inhabitants and the manor of the village of Malechów, which constitutes the endowment of the Lviv hospital for the poor, the privilege of Sigismund III Vasa from 1590 allowing for the acquisition of construction and firewood in the Rokitno forests. The felling is to be carried out without damaging the forest and with the knowledge of the current Starosta of Lviv.

King Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki confirms to the Dominican convent in Lviv the previous privilege of Sigismund III Vasa regarding the acquisition of the land called Sykstowski from the doctor of medicine Erasmus Sykst. The document bears the signatures of the issuer and the notary, as well as a later note of entry into the Lviv city books from 1790.

During the coronation sejm, King Augustus II confirms and solemnly renews all ancient and new rights, privileges, immunities, and properties of the city of Lwów granted by his predecessors. He also pledges to protect the burghers and municipal property from the oppression of officials and to ensure the inviolability of municipal jurisdiction.

King Augustus II confirms and ratifies, at the request of the elders and the bakers' guild of the city of Lviv, the privileges and guild articles granted by previous Polish kings (including Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki, John III Sobieski, John Casimir, Władysław IV, Sigismund III, Stephen Báthory, Sigismund Augustus, Sigismund I, and Casimir Jagiellon), along with the resolutions of the Lviv city council regulating, among other things, the rules for baking, grain purchasing, and the exclusive right to sell bread.