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King Władysław of Varna subjects foreign and non-resident merchants in Lwów exclusively to the jurisdiction of the municipal court and confirms the staple right for goods. He also establishes rules for the validity of testaments drawn up by Lwów burghers and the requirement to sell bequeathed real estate within one year.

King Władysław III of Varna orders the nobility, landowners, and clergy to sell inherited real estate within the city limits of Lviv within one year, under penalty of 20 marks. The regulation is intended to prevent the deterioration of urban property and the reduction of duties incumbent upon city plots.

King Alexander Jagiellon grants the Metropolitan Chapter in Lviv permission to redeem the royal village of Czerkasy from the current tenants and grants it to them as property with immunity. Furthermore, the King grants a free bank within the borders of the village of Mszana for the construction of a fish pond.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the request of Archbishop Bernard Wilczek, confirms the privilege of King Władysław Jagiełło from 1430. The document exempts the estates of the Archdiocese of Lviv from all state burdens, tributes, and services, and equates its immunities with the rights of the Archdiocese of Gniezno.

King Sigismund I transfers the villages of Zubrza and Sichów, belonging to Lwów, from land law to Magdeburg law, subordinating them to the authority of the mayor and city council. He exempts the inhabitants and councilors from the jurisdiction of land and castle officials and from all duties and military expeditions, obliging them only to pay the municipal tax (szos) together with Lwów.

The Archbishop of Lviv, Bernard Wilczek, transfers the villages of Honiatycze and Czerkasy, a mill in front of the Halych Gate, and a tenement house on Szkolna Street in Lviv from secular law to ecclesiastical jurisdiction and immunity, as these properties were granted to the Lviv Metropolitan Chapter by King Sigismund I.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the general sejm in Kraków, grants the city of Lwów the perpetual right to collect market fees from every wagon with goods, a right previously granted temporarily by King John I Albert. The income obtained in this way is to be allocated for the renovation and maintenance of the city fortifications.

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.

The Górka brothers send two representatives to collect money deposited with the Lviv authorities by the late Andrzej Nakuski [?]. They are to collect the sum and, if necessary, issue a receipt on the senders’ behalf.

Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Archbishop of Lviv, together with the cathedral chapter, grants his brother Wojciech Solikowski the life-long use of a mill, a pond, and the labor services of subjects in Siemikowce. In return, the recipient is obliged to maintain the facilities in proper condition and continue serving the Church.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Zamoyski approves the new foundation of a prebend for the sixth mansionary at the Lviv Cathedral, established by the apothecary Maciej Jaslikowski and his wife Marta, née Pajączek. The mansionary's endowment was secured on half of the Pajączek tenement house in Lviv with a sum of 400 Polish zlotys, providing an annual perpetual rent (wyderkaf) of 24 zlotys.

The Lviv Metropolitan Chapter approves an arbitration award settling a dispute between the college of cathedral vicars and the carpenter Melchior Terszowicz regarding the Stawińskie plot near the Krakow Gate in Lviv. The document grants the vicars superior ownership and Terszowicz the right of emphyteusis in exchange for an annual rent and an obligation to build two houses.

The document approves the foundation of a new mansionary priest and the legacies of wyderkauf rents on Lviv tenement houses established by Fr. Krzysztof Sikorski for the college of mansionaries of the Lviv Cathedral. It also specifies the liturgical duties of the beneficiaries and entrusts the right of patronage over the founded prebend to the Lviv magistrate.

Pope Urban VIII exempts Lucas, Bishop-elect of Nicopolis, from the obligation of residence in his titular see and permits him to reside in the Archdiocese of Lviv. He grants him the right to serve as a suffragan, assist the Archbishop of Lviv, and perform pontifical functions and pastoral visitations.

Lviv Archbishop Stanisław Grochowski approves the foundation of a new scholasticate prelatry at the metropolitan cathedral in Lviv, established by Royal Secretary Jan Karol Czołhański and endowed with the estates of Czołhany, Bełejów, Wełdzisz, and others in the Żydaczów district. The act defines the right of patronage of the Czołhański family (Sas coat of arms), the scholastic's endowment, mass obligations, and funds for the capitular tribunal deputy and anniversary services.

King Władysław IV Vasa approves the act of foundation and endowment of the scholastery at the metropolitan cathedral in Lviv, established by Father Jan Karol Czołhański from estates in the Żydaczów district, and confirmed by Archbishop Stanisław Grochowski and the Lviv chapter. The monarch incorporates the granted villages into the ecclesiastical immunity for all time.

King Władysław IV confirms the privilege of King Casimir Jagiellon from 1476, granting the Corpus Christi monastery of the Dominican fathers in Lviv the right to collect customs duties from merchant wagons in the village of Kościejów in the Lviv land.

King John II Casimir confirms and approves the statute and articles of the furriers' guild in Jaworów. The document includes previous confirmations by kings Władysław IV, Sigismund III Vasa, and Stephen Báthory, as well as the original guild order granted in 1554 by the starosta Łukasz Górnicki.

King John III Sobieski approves and transumes earlier privileges granted by Polish kings and the owners of Jaworów, the Górka brothers, regulating the structure, craft articles, and organization of the Jaworów furriers' guild.

Pope Pius IX informs the Metropolitan Chapter of Lviv of the Latin Rite about the appointment of Łukasz Baraniecki to the office of Archbishop of Lviv. He orders the canons to show the new ordinary the due obedience and reverence under penalty of ecclesiastical sanctions.

Pope Pius IX, at the request of the Archbishop of Lviv, extends the privilege of using pontifical insignia to the provost and dean of the Latin-rite Metropolitan Chapter of Lviv. The document allows them to use pontificals whenever permitted by the archbishop, rather than only three times a year as previously established by Pope Gregory XVI.

A heavily damaged, illuminated fragment of a document issued in Przemyśl in the 17th century by the local municipal authorities. The vestigially preserved text contains mentions of a master of theology and a person named Łukasz.