Source catalogue

Archbishop of Lviv Wojciech Koryciński approves and erects the foundation of the chancellorship and the Giedziński canonry at the Lviv Cathedral, established by Suffragan Jerzy Giedziński. The benefice was endowed with an annual rent secured on the estates of Bolechów, Zawadka, and other properties of the founder.

Lviv Archbishop Wojciech Koryciński approves the relocation of the Augustinian convent, destroyed by invasions, from the Halych Suburb to the Krakow Suburb in Lviv. By virtue of this document, the Church of St. Anne and its lands are incorporated into the order with permission to build a monastery, while preserving the rights of the local parish.

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 Lwów Jan Tarnowski confirms and approves the donation of a sum of six thousand Polish zlotys, recorded by the municipal authorities of Lwów from the estate of the late councilor Maciej Hejder for the benefit of the Brotherhood of the Most Holy Body of Christ at the Lwów Cathedral.

The Prior of the Krakow Carmelites intervenes with the authorities of Lviv, requesting them to cease hostile actions and the imprisonment of friars seeking to settle in the city. He explains the Provincial's delay due to visitation duties, invokes the former benevolence of the councilors' ancestors, and warns against ecclesiastical penalties for obstructing monastic foundations.

The Archbishop of Lviv, Jan Tarnowski, approves the foundation of Aleksander Zborowski and canonically erects the church and monastery of Saint Martin of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance, along with a hospital for sick noble soldiers in the Krakow Suburb of Lviv. He secures the income and endowment of the order and ensures the inviolability of the rights of the local parish.

The City Council of Lviv confirms the statute of the tailors' guild journeymen from 1491, translated from German into Polish, which regulates their organization, regular meetings, and contributions to the common chest.

The Lviv City Council grants its colleague, councilor Andrzej Wachlowicz, a devastated apiary in the municipal village of Zubrza for fifteen years, along with the right to redeem mortgaged peasant lands. The document exempts the recipient from fees for six years in exchange for restoring the farm, ordering the payment of an annual rent of six zlotys thereafter.

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.

The city councilors of Lwów enter into their municipal records a document by the provost of the Bełz hospital, Fr. Marcin Strykowski, establishing a prebend at the hospital church in Bełz, endowed among others with Lwów townhouses and estates near Bełz. The founder transfers the right of patronage over this prebend to the Lwów magistrate after his death.

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.

The Lviv Land Court adjudicates to the industrious Albert of Basówka, a subject of the Lviv Chapter, the intromission (possession) of the Zimna Woda and Glinna estates belonging to the noble Baltazar Leśniowski, following a successful lawsuit regarding the unlawful seizure of property.

The Lwów councilors, acting as administrators of the Holy Spirit Hospital, grant the miller Maciej Malski and his wife Katarzyna a sum of 30 grzywnas on the third part of a newly built mill on the Pełtew River in the village of Malechów, and grant them possession and use of this part. The document reserves the life rights of Wawrzyniec Morawiński and his wife Anna to the remaining two parts of the mill and imposes on Maciej Malski the obligation to maintain the entire facility in the future.

The document resolves a jurisdictional dispute between the authorities of Lviv and the Armenian community, defining the scope of competence of the municipal court and the Armenian court in criminal and property cases. The King confirms the right of the Armenians to elect twelve seniors to adjudicate in rotation with the wójt (advocatus) and regulates issues of municipal order and the taking of oaths.

King Sigismund II Augustus resolves a dispute between Lublin councilor Maciej Kasprowicz and the municipal authorities of Lwów, upholding the privileges of the citizens of Lwów to be judged exclusively within the borders of the Crown. The monarch rules that in cases subject to Magdeburg law, a summons 'by one edict for three' does not constitute a peremptory term, but merely a first ordinary summons to court.

King Sigismund Augustus adjudicates the ownership of the Brzuchowice estate, including the mill, to the city of Lwów and confirms municipal jurisdiction over the villages of Brzuchowice and Hołosko. He ensures the successors of Marcin Hanel the right to collect income from the Hołosko estate, while maintaining traditional labor services (szarwarki) owed to the city.

King Sigismund II Augustus, at the general sejm in Kraków, approves a document from the Lwów assessors dated 1554, certifying the sale of a hide of arable land with meadows and thickets in the village of Kleparów to the peasant Grzegorz Sołtys by Stanisław Kmitowicz and Barbara and Katarzyna Kmitówna. The issued diploma ensures the buyer and his heirs perpetual and inviolable ownership rights to the acquired land.

Michael Eckmiller informs Mathias Forbes about legal steps taken and bill of exchange settlements regarding debtors, including Halters and Naylor, as well as the dispatch of goods. He expresses concerns about the collection of debts and asks for further detailed instructions.

Michael Eckmüller informs Mathias Forbes about the acquisition of ordered silk fabrics in Gdańsk and the problems with their shipment resulting from the arrival of a royal letter. He also explains the costs of the goods, the discounts obtained, and announces that Alexander Forbes will send the invoices.

Lviv Archbishop Feliks Ligęza confirms the privilege of King Sigismund II Augustus from 1550, granting the mansionaries of the Lviv Cathedral a garden with a house and a meadow in Lviv. Despite the opposition of Lviv councilor Maciej Hidek, the hierarch incorporates these goods into ecclesiastical jurisdiction and immunity.

Lviv Archbishop Piotr Starzechowski transfers a sum with an annual rent secured on the Stołpin estate to the needs of the Lviv Cathedral fabric, orders estate managers to take an oath to secure assets sede vacante, and grants canons and vicars the right to fell timber in Obroszyn.

King Sigismund I the Old grants the mayor and councilors of Lwów land on the Pełtew River in front of the Kraków Gate for the construction of a water mill for their private use. The document transfers full ownership, all revenues from the mill, and complete municipal jurisdiction over it and the miller to the city authorities, excluding them from the jurisdiction of the starosta.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the request of the authorities of the city of Lwów, confirms earlier acts of delimitation from 1462 and 1485 between Lwów lands and the hereditary village of Zimna Woda. The document grants perpetual legal force to the established boundary line and the order of silence imposed on former claimants.

Lviv Archbishop Piotr Starzechowski confirms and approves, by ordinary authority, the privilege of King Sigismund I, transferring to the city councilors of Lviv the perpetual and irrevocable right of patronage and presentation of the provostry of the Holy Spirit hospital church in Lviv. The act was issued after a prior edictal summons of potential opponents and the finding of their unjustified failure to appear.

A document by the subcamerarius of Przemyśl, Stanisław Herburt of Fulsztyn, and the wojski of Przemyśl, Maciej Boguski, confirming the execution of a site inspection, the determination of boundaries, and the raising of boundary mounds between the villages of Bieńkowa Wisznia, Jatwięgi, and Sychtarowice and the village of Milczyce. The boundary dispute was resolved at the request of the heirs of the aforementioned estates.

The Castellan of Przemyśl and Starosta of Lwów, Mikołaj Odnowski, certifies a donation made by the sub-vice-voivode Stanisław, who, in the event of his death, transferred his house, farmstead with a garden, and the rights to a lawsuit against the Jewish minter Szloma to his cousin Maciej Hydek. The document defines the terms of perpetual ownership and establishes a bail under legal penalty.

Archbishop of Lviv Bernard Wilczek authorizes the construction of a new pulpit in the nave of the cathedral for the Polish preacher during the vacancy of the German preacher, due to the large influx of the faithful following a fire in the church. The document stipulates a return to the original order of preaching in the choir and chapel once a German preacher is appointed by the city council.

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.

Archbishop of Lviv Bernard Wilczek appoints Bachelor of Arts Maciej of Śrem as the parish priest of the parish church in Jaworów, vacant after the death of the priest Tomasz. He orders the rector of Bruchnal and other clergy to solemnly induct the new pastor into the actual possession of the benefice and to hand over all associated revenues to him.

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.

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.

Lviv Archbishop Bernard Wilczek approves the donation of a brick house near the cathedral cemetery, made by the altarist Maciej Krogulicz of Strzyżów to the mayor and councilors of Lviv as guardians of the altar of St. Mary, founded by Stanisław Małdrzyk. In return, each successive altarist was obliged to celebrate perpetual masses for the soul of the donor, his parents, and friends.

King Sigismund I the Old approves and grants the city of Lviv its existing coat of arms depicting a gate with three towers and a standing lion. Furthermore, the monarch grants the municipal authorities the honorable privilege of sealing all documents and letters with red wax.

The Lviv jurors, under the presidency of the judicial reeve Andrzej Stefan, recognize the rights and intromission of Canon Mikołaj Błażejowski to a farmstead on Głyńska Street in the Halych Suburb. The document includes an oblat of an earlier council act from 1520, regulating the property obligations of the deceased juror Stanisław Lamek and his wife Agnieszka.

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.

King Sigismund I transfers the villages of Zubrza and Sichów, belonging to Lwów, from land law to Magdeburg law, subordinating them to the authority of the mayor and city council. He exempts the inhabitants and councilors from the jurisdiction of land and castle officials and from all duties and military expeditions, obliging them only to pay the municipal tax (szos) together with Lwów.

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 settles a dispute in Lwów, sentencing councilors Maciej Mikulka, Jan Kochno, and Jan Frayborg to imprisonment in a tower for unlawfully inciting the commonalty. He orders the city council to account for public revenues and fortification funds before royal commissioners and delegates of the commune and guilds.

Lviv Archbishop Bernard Wilczek certifies that the vicars of the Lviv Cathedral received the sum of 100 marks from the executors of Mikołaj Wagleński's will, intended for the purchase of a redeemable rent (wyderkaf). In exchange for the legacy, the clergy committed to celebrating weekly masses and annual funeral vigils for the soul of the testator and his wife.

Lviv Archbishop Bernard Wilczek certifies that the vicars of the Lviv Cathedral received 100 marks from the executors of the late Mikołaj Wagleński's will for the purchase of a rent. In return, the clergy committed to celebrating a weekly mass and annual vigils with a sung mass for the soul of the deceased and his wife.

Lviv Archbishop Bernard Wilczek confirms the receipt of 100 marks by the vicars of the Lviv Cathedral from the executors of Mikołaj Wagleński's will for the purchase of a perpetual rent. In exchange for the funds received, the vicars committed to the perpetual celebration of a weekly mass for the deceased and annual memorial services on the anniversary of his burial.

Archbishop Metropolitan of Lviv Bernard Wilczek confirms the receipt by the cathedral vicars of the sum of 200 florins from the executors of the will of the late Stanisław Vitellius of Przedbórz. In exchange for the legacy, the vicars committed themselves to the perpetual celebration of weekly anniversary services and requiem masses for the soul of the deceased priest.

Archbishop Bernard Wilczek confirms that the canons of the Lviv Chapter sold, under a wyderkauf (redemption) agreement, houses belonging to the foundation of a Polish preacher, allocating the obtained 300 florins to the redemption of the village of Czerkasy. In return, the Chapter committed to paying the preacher an annual rent of 6 grzywnas in exchange for celebrating two masses per week.

King Sigismund I grants the Metropolitan Chapter in Lviv permission to redeem the third share of the royal mill in front of the Krakow Gate in Lviv from the hands of councilor Mikołaj Harnegth and other holders. The consent was granted to support the chapter after the destruction of its estates by the Tatar invasion.

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 settles a dispute between the city council of Lwów and the Starosta Stanisław of Chodecz, prohibiting the operation of taverns in the suburbs and limiting the permitted number of craftsmen in the Kraków Suburb to two tailors, two shoemakers, two blacksmiths, and tanners.

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 the Old grants to Stanisław of Chodecz, Marshal of the Kingdom of Poland, shares in the villages of Żydatycze and Maleczkowice, confiscated from the Lviv canons for failing to fulfill the duty of military service against the Voivode of Wallachia. The grant serves as a reward for the Marshal's military merits demonstrated during that same expedition.

The Archbishop of Lwów, Bernard Wilczek, confirms the granting of a canonry and a preaching prebend to Master Stanisław of Kraków and incorporates into its endowment 300 florins from the bequest of the burgher Piotr Stryczek. The act regulates in detail the preaching duties, conditions for examination and residence, and prohibits the exchange of this benefice for another.

King Alexander Jagiellon leaves the Lviv burgher Marcin Tłusty and his wife Małgorzata in possession and use of the mill before the Halych Gate for a period of five years. The monarch simultaneously orders the Starosta of Lviv to protect their rights and annuls any previous conflicting permits.