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King Casimir the Great grants the miller Konrad of Prussia and his legitimate successors the third part of a mill he built near Lwów, along with a third of the income, while regulating the proportions of repair costs and subjecting him to the municipal law of Lwów.

Arbitrators Mikołaj son of Wigand and Mikołaj Peysar settle the dispute regarding the collection of tithes between the Lviv parish priest Jan Rusin and the authorities and community of the city of Lviv. The document was drawn up and certified by the notary public Grzegorz of Lelów.

King Władysław Jagiełło donates the dilapidated royal bathhouse with its plot to the city of Lwów in exchange for an annual rent of 20 marks. Furthermore, he authorizes the councilors and the city to construct additional bathhouses as their own property without the obligation to pay any fees to the monarch.

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.

Pope Martin V instructs the Dean of Sandomierz to proclaim the excommunication of Lviv burghers for assaulting the cleric Marek of Kościan, until they provide satisfaction to the victim and travel to the Apostolic See for absolution. He also orders that any witnesses to the incident be compelled to testify under threat of ecclesiastical penalties.

King Władysław Jagiełło grants his customs officer, Wołczko the Jew from Lwów, a hereditary village headship in the village of Werbiż, along with two free hides of land, an inn, and a mill. The document further transfers the entire village from Polish and Ruthenian law to German (Środa) law, exempting its inhabitants from the jurisdiction of land courts.

King Władysław Jagiełło establishes ten canonical prebends at the cathedral church in Lwów, obligating their beneficiaries to constant prayers for the prosperity of the monarch and the deceased queens. For their maintenance, he assigns an annual income of 100 marks, payable in quarterly installments, half from the salt mines in Drohobycz and half from the Lwów customs duties.

King John I Albert leases the customs duties in Lviv to the Lviv councilors for a period of one year for the sum of 350 marks of Polish currency. The document also grants them full authority to confiscate smuggled goods and retain half of their value.

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.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms to the mayor and councilors of the city of Lviv the exclusive right to elect and appoint city intermediaries and interpreters (known as 'mejlerze' and interpreters) in accordance with ancient custom. The monarch forbids royal officials from interfering with this municipal prerogative under any pretext.

King Sigismund I the Old renews the privileges of the Lwów clothiers lost in a fire, confirming their exclusive right to cut and sell cloth by the ell in the city of Lwów and prohibiting this practice by other merchants under penalty of confiscation of goods. The monarch orders the starosta and the municipal authorities of Lwów to provide the clothiers' guild with all assistance and protection in enforcing these rights.

King Sigismund II Augustus sentences in absentia the customs collector Melchior Kośla to a fine of 3000 marks for the benefit of the authorities and commonalty of Lwów due to his failure to appear in court and take an oath. At the same time, the monarch confirms the total exemption of Lwów burghers from all customs duties within the Crown and its subordinate lands.

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.