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King Louis of Hungary orders officials and customs officers in Poland and Hungary to allow merchants and inhabitants of Ruthenia free passage upon payment of due customs duties. He forbids any unlawful obstacles or harm to be inflicted upon them.

Duke Władysław Opolczyk thanks the inhabitants and officials of the Ruthenian lands for their past loyalty and releases them from the homage and oath sworn to him. At the same time, he returns them to the direct rule of King Louis of Hungary.

The Wallachian Voivode Mircea grants merchants from Lviv, Poland, and Lithuania the right to trade freely in his domains upon payment of the required customs duties. The permit covers the trade of goods with an absolute prohibition on the export of silver.

King Władysław Jagiełło grants the Lwów burgher and hearth tax collector Janszko Tołmacz and his successors a cloth chamber in Lwów with the right to trade and shear cloth. The stall is exempted from paying the annual rent to the royal treasury.

Jan of Oleśnica, Marshal of the Kingdom of Poland, resolves a dispute over customs revenues in the village of Werbiż, confirming the rights of the Lviv customs officer Wolczek and restoring him to their possession. He also orders Teodoryk Buczacki, his relatives, and the local peasants to cease further obstacles in the collection of tolls.

King Władysław III of Varna permits the councilors and commonalty of the city of Lwów to present their city laws, immunities, and privileges exclusively before his royal presence. He thereby exempts the city from the obligation to present these documents to voivodes, castellans, starosts, or other officials of the Kingdom of Poland until his personal arrival in Lwów.

Pope Nicholas V, acceding to the request of King Casimir Jagiellon, issues instructions to the Archbishop of Lviv and other Polish hierarchs in the face of the threat from the Tatars. The document concerns the granting of indulgences and ecclesiastical ordinances in connection with the struggle against the invaders.

King Casimir IV Jagiellon confirms that the tribute (cyza) enacted by the authorities and inhabitants of Lwów for the urgent needs of the state and the Prussian war is voluntary and limited to one year. The monarch pledges on his royal word that this levy will not become a permanent obligation nor infringe in any way upon the city's privileges and liberties.

Pope Julius II informs King Alexander Jagiellon of the appointment of Bernard Wilczek as Archbishop of Lviv, replacing Archbishop Andrzej, who was transferred to Gniezno. He urges the monarch to extend royal protection and benevolent support to the new pastor and his archdiocese.

Pope Leo X issues decrees regarding the discipline of the clergy, the reform of morals, and the combating of errors and heresies in the Kingdom of Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary. He entrusts the execution and jurisdictional powers to the Archbishop of Gniezno, Jan Łaski.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the General Sejm in Piotrków, settles a dispute between the burghers of Lviv and the Jews, introducing an ordinance limiting the commercial activities of Lviv and suburban Jews. The document prohibits them, among other things, from home-based and itinerant trade, forbids the sale of spices and silk, and strictly regulates the trade in cloth, wax, hides, and oxen.

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 the Old forbids the authorities of Lviv from opening the city gates at night at the request of the nobility and magnates due to war threats on the borderlands, allowing exceptions only in cases of urgent and supreme state necessity. At the same time, he forbids anyone from pressuring the city councilors under threat of severe royal penalties.

Archbishop of Lviv Piotr Starzechowski performs an oblation and transsumption of a document by Primate Jan Latalski containing a brief of Pope Paul III from 1538. The act confirms the exemption of mendicant friars in the Kingdom of Poland from the jurisdiction of diocesan bishops and prohibits the violation of their privileges.

The Vogt and jurors of Kraków, at the request of the Lwów scribe Paweł Szczerbic, certify the custom of electing the college of forty men practiced in Kraków, to which a royal decree for Lwów referred. According to the Kraków practice, twenty members are elected by the guild masters from among the merchants, and another twenty are designated by the merchants from among the guild masters, with the participation of eleven jurors.

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.

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.

Pope Urban VIII instructs the Apostolic Nuncio in Poland to approve and grant perpetual validity to the foundation, endowment, and municipal administration of the Hospital of St. Elizabeth in Lviv, in light of a dispute with the Archbishop of Lviv. He stipulates, however, that the clergy appointed to administer sacraments to the sick in the hospital must obtain prior approval from the Ordinary.

King Sigismund III Vasa grants the city of Lwów the perpetual right to collect duties on goods (the so-called 'sztukowe' or 'węzłowe'), as well as on grain, beer, and mead. The income from these duties is divided: two-thirds are allocated for the city's needs and fortifications, and one-third for the remuneration of the city council's efforts.

The document certifies the admission of Mikołaj Bajdułowicz, an Armenian originally from Suceava, to the citizenship of Lviv after he took an oath of allegiance to the King and the city. The city councilors request customs officials to respect his status as a burgher and to exempt him and his goods from all customs duties, tolls, and fees.

Apostolic Palace Auditor Krzysztof Widman issues a decree in the dispute between the Lviv Cathedral Chapter and the Dominican Order regarding the administration of the property of St. Lazarus Hospital in Lviv. The act formally notifies the parties of the decision to lift the previous inhibition based on the appellate procedure.

Pope Innocent X informs King Władysław IV of the translation of Mikołaj, Bishop of Wenden, to the Archbishopric of Lwów, left vacant after the death of Archbishop Stanisław. He urges the monarch to extend royal favor and protection to the new metropolitan and the Church of Lwów entrusted to him.

Archbishop of Lviv Konstanty Lipski confirms and renews the erection of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament at the Lviv Cathedral, transuming the approval document of Apostolic Nuncio Opizio Pallavicini from 1681. He grants the confraternity statutes, jurisdictional powers for its confessors, and a forty-day indulgence for performing specific pious practices.

Pope Pius XI, acceding to the request of Archbishop Józef Bilczewski, grants the prelates and canons of the Metropolitan Chapter of Lviv of the Latin Rite the right to wear prelatial attire with ruby-colored distinctions, a violet mantelletta, and a ring outside the celebration of Holy Mass.