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Mikołaj Bielecki acknowledges before the Lwów land court a debt of seventy Hungarian florins to the Archbishop of Lwów, Grzegorz, and pledges his hereditary village of Biała as collateral. The document specifies rigorous conditions for the defense of possession and the immediate satisfaction of the creditor's claims in case of default.

Royal commissioners appointed by King Sigismund I performed a demarcation and erected boundary mounds between royal villages held by Mikołaj Dzieduszycki and Mikołaj Odnowski and the estates of the Metropolitan Chapter in Lviv. The ruling was issued based on a presented demarcation document from 1463 and the sworn testimonies of the oldest witnesses.

King Sigismund II Augustus approves an entry from the Piotrków municipal council books of 1538 concerning the sale of a house with a plot and garden behind the Kraków Gate in Piotrków by the altarist Jan Kraska to the councilors and mayor of the city of Lwów. The buyers were obliged to pay an annual rent of 15 groszy to the aforementioned altar on the feast of St. Matthew.

The sender addresses a superior and refers to a letter received from the burgrave, connected with the depositing or accounting of dues. The sender asks the recipient to take further action or decide the matter and invokes obligations toward the recipient; some details are uncertain. The letter is dated Lviv, 18 June 1757. The cover on p. 4 is addressed to a superior.

The author addresses a “Reverende in Christo Pater” and discusses a statement of sums and income due to religious institutions. Several houses are named, along with amounts in Polish florins, including 3,000 and 6,500; the text considers the difference between nominal sums and revenue received. The damaged continuation concerns accounting/transfers and matters involving Przemyśl and other houses. The date line on p. 3 gives Przemyśl, 20 June 1760; the given name Cyprian is legible, but the surname is uncertain.

King Sigismund II Augustus pledges on his royal word that for a period of twelve years he will neither redeem nor reclaim from the metropolitan chapter in Lviv the villages of Honiatycze and Czerkasy in the Szczerzec district. He confirms the inviolability of the peaceful possession of these estates along with all benefits until the expiration of this term.

Zabielski writes to the administrator of the Holy Spirit Hospital in Lviv about a quarterly payment and repairs. He mentions the 12 July deadline, money left to be collected from the director, and the director’s explanation that he had not paid because repairs were needed; Zabielski says he asked for the quarter’s payment to be handed over. In a second matter, he says he has no involvement with the other “Zdziełka,” does not know who holds its contract, and has no receipts relating to it. Some words and the relation between the matters remain uncertain.

The writer describes a matter involving amounts due or an account, refers to earlier correspondence and Warsaw, and asks the recipient for help or further action. The handwriting is difficult, so details and relationships between the people remain uncertain.

King Stephen Báthory confirms the 1547 privilege of King Sigismund I granted to the cloth cutters of Lwów. The act guarantees them exclusivity in the retail trade and shearing of cloth in Lwów under penalty of confiscation of illegal goods.

The writer sends a letter from Warsaw to the Lviv magistracy. The surviving text mentions people and a son named Stanisław, but its main subject cannot be reconstructed. The letter is dated 5 July 1699.

The writer addresses the Lviv magistracy. The letter mentions proceedings, a deadline, a decree, and immunitas/securitas, but its subject is not fully legible. It is dated in Lublin on 25 February 1738.

A representative of the Lviv municipal authorities responds to the Lviv Chorąży Bielski regarding his demand to imprison and flog the merchant Anastazy. He refuses to carry out the immediate punishment without a prior investigation, citing municipal law and the principle prohibiting imprisonment without a final court verdict.