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The mayor and councilors of Drohobycz address the authorities of Lviv with a humble request to send the city executioner for an imprisoned criminal. They assure them of proper hospitality, remuneration, and the return of the master of justice after the sentence is carried out.

Stanisław of Świdnica, Official of Kraków, grants Bernard, son of Jakub of Lwów, the right to choose a confessor capable of granting him absolution and a plenary indulgence as part of the crusade against the Turks and Tatars. The document includes the text of the absolution formula used during life and at the point of death.

Katarzyna Godlewska urges her brother to urgently send money to cover obligations, fearing official trouble. She also informs him about complex settlement and property issues involving, among others, the lady of Gródek.

Lviv Archbishop Piotr Starzechowski approves the foundation document of the Castellan of Przemyśl and General Starosta of Ruthenia, Mikołaj Herburt Odnowski, establishing and endowing a college of five mansionaries at the main altar of the Lviv Cathedral.

Pope Gregory XIII grants the altar of St. Anne in the Church of St. Andrew of the Bernardines in Lviv the privilege of a privileged altar. By virtue of this, every mass for the dead celebrated at this altar by a friar of this convent brings an indulgence releasing a soul from purgatory.

Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, together with the authorities of the Roman Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Body of Christ at the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, issues a transumpt of documents by Pope Paul III containing grants of indulgences. The act was drawn up at the request of Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski for the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament at the cathedral in Lviv in order to extend Roman spiritual privileges to it.

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.

Father Marek explains to the stolnikowa Anna Wróblewska the reasons for the delay in his arrival due to being detained by the definitorium and his monastic duties. He assures the recipient that he is celebrating masses for the prosperity of her estates, the recovery of debts, and the protection of her livestock from plague.

A fragment of a Latin liturgical book with musical notation on staves, containing chants in honor of St. John the Baptist and a portion of the Eucharistic sequence 'Lauda Sion Salvatorem'. The manuscript has been preserved as a waste sheet used secondarily for binding.

Bazyli Ustrzycki requests the Lviv Magistrate to refer the case of Mr. Krupiński against Dominikowa and her sons, as well as Father Stefan Wyszyński, to the court of first instance. He justifies this by the necessity of questioning local witnesses, whose transport to Lviv would involve a loss of time and great difficulties.

Imprisoned Jan Frydel addresses President Ziękiewicz and the entire Lviv Magistrate with a humble request for support and forgiveness for his reckless escape. He begs for counsel and a helping hand that would enable his safe return to his former office and rehabilitation before the city authorities.

Michał Antoni Hacki, Abbot of Oliwa, complaining about the burdens related to the double election and the quartering of troops, sends Christmas and New Year greetings to the Ruthenian Voivode Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski. He wishes him prosperity and the desired pacification of the situation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, while commending himself to his grace.