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King Sigismund III Vasa orders the mayor and council of Lwów to appoint arbitrators from among the councilors to reach an amicable settlement in a dispute over contracts and mutual accounts between Armenian burghers: Jan and Awedik Bernatowicz and Zachariasz Iwaszkowicz. The settlement is intended to prevent the financial ruin of the parties, but must not violate the validity of previous royal decrees.

King Władysław Jagiełło transfers the villages of Hodowice and Żydatycze, belonging to Jakub, the official of Halicz and hospitaler of Lwów, from Polish law to Magdeburg law. He grants the village heads full judicial jurisdiction over the inhabitants, exempting them from the authority of royal officials.

King Władysław Jagiełło, at the request of the Archdeacon of Lublin, Stanisław Erpisska, transfers the village of Hodowica, belonging to the Lviv prebend of St. John, from Polish and Ruthenian law to German Magdeburg law. The document grants the inhabitants immunity from the courts of land officials and defines the scope of the village head's (sołtys) jurisdiction.

King John II Casimir thanks the authorities of Lwów for their loyalty to the Crown and promises compensation for war-related losses. He also instructs them to organize winter clothing for the stationed soldiers in cooperation with the governor, assuring that the funds spent will be reimbursed from the state treasury.

King John II Casimir orders the authorities of Lviv to organize the transport of three hundred lances left in the city and deliver them to Lublin. Krzysztof Bernatowicz is to provide detailed information regarding the transport of the weapons and the banners belonging to them.

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.

Benedykt Bernatowicz justifies his absence before the Mayor and Councilors of Lwów due to illness, promising to present private letters in defense of his good reputation upon his recovery. Fearing the entrustment of confidential correspondence to intermediaries, he refrains from sending the documents immediately.

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.

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.

Jakub Bączyński informs the syndic of Lviv about the steps taken with the Crown Instigator regarding the city's parliamentary trial against Mr. Bernat and the registration of the case on the docket. He also reports on the prolonged parliamentary sessions, the delay of parliamentary courts, and the suspension of the assessor courts.

The Archbishop of Lviv, Bernard Wilczek, at the request of the altarist Stanisław Vitellius, renews and confirms the erection and endowment of the altar of Sts. Nicholas, Stanislaus, Christopher, and George in the Lviv Cathedral, transuming an earlier document by Spytek of Jarosław, who had founded a rent from the Jarosław customs duty based on a bequest by the burgher Leonard. The Archbishop confirms the right of patronage of the heirs of Jarosław and specifies the mass obligations of each successive altarist.

King Sigismund I the Old grants the metropolitan chapter in Lviv the village of Honiatycze by hereditary right, along with a detailed demarcation of its boundaries. Furthermore, he exempts the village and its inhabitants from all land burdens and military expeditions, subjecting it to ecclesiastical immunity.

King Sigismund I the Old, considering the location of Lwów on the threatened borderland and the merits of the local craftsmen in defending the city walls, exempts the Lwów guilds from the general order of dissolution of brotherhoods in the Crown and solemnly confirms all their existing rights, statutes, and privileges.

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 Augustus confirms in the form of a vidimus transumpt two earlier privileges of kings Władysław Jagiełło (1415) and Władysław of Varna (1444), concerning the granting and use by the city of Lviv of suburban lands and surplus fields, the so-called 'obszary'. The document guarantees the transumed copy the same legal force and credibility as the original documents.

Mikołaj Narajowski, judge, and Jan Brzozdowski, deputy judge of the Lviv land court, certify the course of the trial and the granting of intromission into the estates of Glinna and Zimna Woda belonging to Baltazar Leśniowski to Andrzej, an innkeeper from the village of Basiówka.

A one-page letter survives with a salutation to an Illustrious Sir and Benefactor. The handwriting is difficult to read, and neither the subject nor the addressee’s surname can be established reliably. The archival cover attributes the letter to Zamoyski, but the document itself does not securely confirm this.

King Stephen Báthory resolves a dispute between the Armenian community and the magistrate of the city of Lwów, granting the Armenians rights equal to those of other burghers regarding trade, crafts, and the use of municipal liberties. The document simultaneously guarantees the preservation of the separate customary laws and the internal judiciary of the Armenian community.

King Sigismund III Vasa clarifies the privilege of Stefan Batory, specifying the rules for cloth trade, the retailing of alcoholic beverages, and the limit of permitted Armenian craftsmen in Lwów. The document confirms the rights of both nations to trade, setting the framework for Armenian tailoring, tavern-keeping, and craft activities under penalty of a fine.

King Sigismund III Vasa settles a dispute between the municipal authorities and the Armenian community in Lviv, setting the limit of hereditary Armenian houses at seventy-three, excluding church buildings and the hospital from this count. He further orders the Armenians to sell back houses located at the Market Square and a stall to Catholics within one year in exchange for the return of the invested sums, prohibiting them from further transactions within the Market Square area.

The City Council of Lwów, under the leadership of Mayor Erasmus Sixtus, approves and renews a set of fourteen regulatory articles for the Lwów shoemakers' guild, based on ancient royal privileges and the law of Kraków. The statute regulates, among other things, master requirements, the prohibition of unauthorized work, relations with tanners and cordwainers, market stall issues, and the religious and guild duties of the guild brethren.

King Władysław IV examines a dispute over an unpaid debt between Maciej Fik of Gdańsk and the Lwów Armenian Gabriel Bernatowicz, and confirms the privilege of Sigismund Augustus exempting Armenians from answering before commission courts. On this basis, the monarch refers the case to the competent Armenian court in Lwów.

King Władysław IV issues an authentic transcript of a 1634 decree regarding a dispute between the Lwów magistrate and the College of Forty Men representing the commonalty. The case concerned the failure to submit financial reports on municipal income and expenditures, as well as the neglect of repairs to the defensive walls.

King Władysław IV orders Lwów merchants to pay border customs duties on imported goods, abolishing the Armenian lump sum of twelve kopa, while simultaneously releasing the townspeople from past arrears and upholding their exemption from internal customs duties.

King John II Casimir confirms the general rights, liberties, immunities, and grants of the city of Lwów, transuming the general privilege of King Władysław IV from 1633. The issuer of the document thus rewards the loyalty and dedication shown by the townspeople during the recent Cossack uprising and the Tatar invasion under the city walls.

King John II Casimir grants the Armenian community of Lviv full freedom to trade in all goods, including cloth and spices, as well as the right to brew and sell alcoholic beverages on equal terms with other city residents. This privilege serves as compensation for the loyalty and sacrifices made by the Lviv Armenians during the recent siege of Lviv by Cossack-Tatar forces.

Aleksandr Menshikov exempts Lviv's estates from levies and winter military quarters, promising to assign protective guards and ordering officers to stop abuses. At the same time, he obliges the city authorities to hold markets and orders the residents to unconditionally accept Russian kopecks from the Tsar's soldiers.

The document commemorates the restoration of a tin weather vane in the shape of a lion, the city's coat of arms, to the tower of the Lwów town hall after it was knocked down during a storm in the period of wartime turmoil. It outlines the dramatic sieges and disasters of Lwów, offers thanksgiving for salvation, and provides a detailed list of the city's authorities, guilds, and clergy at the time.

Samuel Obodziński of Obodno addresses Lviv councilor Maciej Hajder with a request for assistance in matters related to the submission of a recognition by Teodor Mirowicki before the court in Lviv. Citing the significant distance between Bila Tserkva and Lviv, he seeks to ensure that legal deadlines are met and that the matter is handled favorably.

Konstanty Mrozowicki, administrator sede vacante of the Archdiocese of Lviv, confirms the donation of the villages of Wołosów and Cucyłów made by Aleksander and Kazimierz Kuropatwa to the metropolitan chapter. He establishes a new canonry funded by the Kuropatwa family of the Jastrzębiec coat of arms, specifying the canon's mass obligations and the right of patronage for the founders' family.

The municipal authorities of Lviv, the clergy, and the chapter draft a commemorative memorial documenting the war disasters, fires, plagues, and storms that plagued the city between 1672 and 1708. The document certifies the thorough renovation of the town hall tower's spire and the lion figure, carried out under the direction of councilor Tomasz Gordon, and includes a list of officials of the time and a prayer for the salvation of Lviv.

King Augustus II confirms and ratifies, at the request of the elders and the bakers' guild of the city of Lviv, the privileges and guild articles granted by previous Polish kings (including Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki, John III Sobieski, John Casimir, Władysław IV, Sigismund III, Stephen Báthory, Sigismund Augustus, Sigismund I, and Casimir Jagiellon), along with the resolutions of the Lviv city council regulating, among other things, the rules for baking, grain purchasing, and the exclusive right to sell bread.

Prince Józef Poniatowski requests Count de Brigido to issue a passport and instructions for the Galician customs offices for the transport of fifteen horses purchased in Galicia to Warsaw for training, and subsequently to the Imperial army.

The document presents the history of the establishment of the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Lviv, its financial status and the composition of its authorities, and commemorates the commencement of the construction of the institute's new headquarters in Lychakiv in 1840.

Aleksander Januszewicz reports on a victorious clash with the Cossacks near Konstantynów and his readiness to continue defending the Volhynian Voivodeship. He also reports difficulties in collecting the hiberna tax from the mortgagees of Jabłonowski's estates and asks for instructions and the payment of outstanding dues for the soldiers.