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Jerzy Ghica asks the city councilors of Lwów to announce the upcoming fair in Jazłowiec to foreign merchants and city residents. He informs them of the merchants' concerns regarding new fees and the assurances of protection he received, following which he ordered his merchants to depart. He also requests confirmation and encouragement from Lwów.

Franciscan Provincial Nicolaus of Krnov confirms a transumed donation document by the Lviv chamberlain Jerzy Strumiłło of Dmoszyn. By this act, the Franciscan monastery in Lviv receives the village of Czyżki along with an endowment in exchange for founding a chapel and prayers for the deceased.

The authors write from Zamość to the Lwów magistrate about the difficulties of their journey. Before departure, the axle of the wagon carrying their luggage broke; reloading the items and obtaining a part for the carriage delayed the trip. They set off in the evening for Janów, leaving the driver with the belongings, and waited for him until noon the next day. Further on, the carriage kept breaking down. The final part of the account is missing.

The Voivode and Hospodar of Moldavia, Bogdan III, confirms the grant of landed estates including villages and a well on the Larga River, along with all revenues. This grant is to belong to the recipients and their descendants for all eternity under penalty of a curse.

Brinck writes about the imminent march towards Gdańsk and the King's intention to depart. He cites rumors regarding the arrival of the Queen, the Elector of Brandenburg, and the Tsar, noting that it is difficult to obtain certain information.

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.

The Sub-chamberlain of Lwów, Wojciech Starzechowski, certifies the raising of boundary mounds and the legal establishment of borders between the estates of the Lwów Chapter (Żydatycze), Michał Chomątowski (Dublany), and Zofia Hynkowa (Sroki). For any violation of the established boundaries, the parties set a penalty (wadium) of one hundred marks.

The Castellan of Przemyśl and Starosta of Lwów, Mikołaj Odnowski, certifies a donation made by the sub-vice-voivode Stanisław, who, in the event of his death, transferred his house, farmstead with a garden, and the rights to a lawsuit against the Jewish minter Szloma to his cousin Maciej Hydek. The document defines the terms of perpetual ownership and establishes a bail under legal penalty.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the request of the authorities of the city of Lwów, confirms earlier acts of delimitation from 1462 and 1485 between Lwów lands and the hereditary village of Zimna Woda. The document grants perpetual legal force to the established boundary line and the order of silence imposed on former claimants.

King Sigismund II Augustus confirms the previous privileges of kings Alexander and Sigismund I, exempting Lviv burghers of all rites from customs duties throughout the state. He orders officials and tax collectors to strictly observe this immunity under penalty of statutory sanctions.

King Sigismund II Augustus orders all Armenians residing in Lviv to unconditionally submit to Armenian law and jurisdiction and to bear municipal burdens equally. The document invalidates all existing and future letters exempting them from this jurisdiction.

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.

The city councilors of Lwów enter into their municipal records a document by the provost of the Bełz hospital, Fr. Marcin Strykowski, establishing a prebend at the hospital church in Bełz, endowed among others with Lwów townhouses and estates near Bełz. The founder transfers the right of patronage over this prebend to the Lwów magistrate after his death.

The writer addresses a “Noble Benefactor” and presents a complaint concerning a shoemakers’ guild master and actions taken on the writer’s land. The following text appeals to the magistracy’s justice, proceedings, and applicable penalties; parts of the argument are illegible. The inventory card attributes the letter to Wacław Kruszycki, a canon, but the signature itself cannot be read. The date, 14 July 1769, is written in the letter; the dateline gives no place.

A letter copy whose heading indicates Krosno and the date 10 March 1743. Surviving fragments concern the town and its magistrate; the text is partly damaged or illegible.

King Władysław IV Vasa confirms and approves the document of erection and the right of patronage over St. Lazarus Hospital in the Lwów suburb, issued by the provisors and seniors of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Hospodar Vasile Lupu assures János Kemény and George II Rákóczi of his constant friendship, explaining past grievances regarding the poor treatment of the Moldavian envoy at the funeral of Zygmunt Rákóczi. He attaches news about the Sultan's kalga expedition and the Khan's embassy to Khmelnytsky for reinforcements against the Kalmyks and Don Cossacks, as well as a bloody rebellion in Korsun during the reduction of the Cossack register and the execution of its leader, Mozyra.

The document establishes the statutes of the Tailors' Guild in Lwów, regulating in detail the rules for the inn, contributions, working hours and hygiene, discipline, and the mutual aid fund for journeymen and apprentices. It confirms the original articles from 1491/1501 and their official renewal by the guild masters in 1646.

King Augustus III approves the statute of the bookbinders' confraternity in Lwów, enacted by the city council in 1740, which regulates the organization of the guild, the duties of masters and journeymen, and protects the craft against competition from unauthorized workers.

Józef Potocki invites the Voivode of Ruthenia, Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski, to Stanisławów for the holidays to discuss public affairs and a planned campaign against the Cossacks. He also reports on awaiting an intelligence report regarding the movements of the Budjak Horde and expresses concerns about burdensome military contributions.

Grand Duke Švitrigaila responds to letters from the Grand Master and Teutonic dignitaries, discussing coordinated strikes by the Order's, Podolian, and Tatar forces against Polish and Lithuanian lands. He assures Paul von Rusdorf of his loyalty to the alliance and declares mutual military assistance in the fight against their common enemy.

Jakub Kalepiński informs councilor Tomasz Gordon about the theft of valuable mirror fittings and mattress stuffing committed by the tailor managing his Lviv tenement house. He asks for the perpetrator to be tracked down, for craftsmen buying the stolen silver and horsehair to be investigated, and for the thief's wife to be released from custody.