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King Sigismund III Vasa calls upon the Castellan of Bełz, Stanisław Żórawiński, to settle a border dispute between his estates and the city of Lwów. He orders him, in accordance with a tribunal decree, to contribute to a fair and damage-free demarcation of the disputed lands.

King Władysław Jagiełło confirms a transumed document of the Lviv jurors regarding the donation of the Hołosko grange by Katarzyna Cymmerman to her husband Janusz Tłumacz. Furthermore, the monarch grants Janusz and his successors a royal wasteland by the Brzuchowica river and adjacent meadows.

Ruthenian Voivode Andrzej Odrowąż and Sniatyn Starosta Michał Buczacki prohibit the arbitrary obstruction of merchants transporting cattle and goods between Wallachia and Lviv. All disputes and claims regarding seized animals are ordered to be directed for resolution to the city council court in Kolomyia.

King Sigismund I resolves a dispute between the lessees of the Sniatyn customs and the Lviv city council, confirming documents from 1444 by Jan of Czyżów and Michał Mużyło of Buczacz, which abolished unlawful customs duties in Kolomyia and established fair customs rates in Sniatyn.

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.

King Sigismund II Augustus performs a transumpt of three earlier royal privileges for Lviv: Casimir the Great from 1368 (confirmed in 1389) regarding 100 Franconian hides; Władysław Jagiełło from 1415 regarding the so-called areas and Krzywylas; and Władysław of Varna regarding the management of surplus hides beyond the Brzuchowicka river. The document grants the inscribed acts full and undoubted legal force equal to the originals.

King Sigismund II Augustus settles an appellate dispute between the heirs of Marcin Hanel and the authorities of the city of Lwów, based on ancient royal privileges and witness testimonies. The document definitively confirms that the villages of Hołosko Wielkie and Brzuchowice lie within the city limits and are forever subject to the jurisdiction of the Lwów authorities.

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 Stephen Báthory resolves a multifaceted dispute between the commonalty and the magistracy of Lwów, regulating, among other things, issues of income from municipal estates, the rendering of accounts, the election of councilors and the college of forty men, and the observance of the staple right. He orders both parties to maintain harmony and obedience under penalty of one thousand marks.

King Stefan Batory confirms to the Lviv burgher Szymon Hannel the previous privileges of Kings Sigismund I and Władysław Jagiełło regarding the Hołosko estate and grants on the Brzuchowice river. The document sanctions the hereditary and property rights to the aforementioned goods near Lviv.

King Stephen Báthory resolves a dispute between the authorities and commonalty of Lwów and Starosta Mikołaj Herburt and the tax collector, ruling that the city is obligated to pay only a double tax rate, which includes the suburbs and city fields. The monarch forbids the collection of a separate tax on city lands and craft workshops, annulling the previous judgments of the starosta.

King Władysław IV confirms the ancient rights, municipal grants, and the 1559 decree of King Sigismund Augustus for the inhabitants of the villages and suburbs of Lviv: Brzuchowice, Hołosko, and Kleparów. In return, he imposes on them the obligation to pay traditional rents to the city treasury, perform corvée labor, contribute to the repair of city walls, and pay the military tax.