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Duke Władysław Opolczyk thanks the inhabitants and officials of the Ruthenian lands for their past loyalty and releases them from the homage and oath sworn to him. At the same time, he returns them to the direct rule of King Louis of Hungary.

King Władysław Jagiełło approves the privilege of the General Starosta of Ruthenia, Spytko of Jarosław, allowing the Lviv Armenian Atabe to relocate and erect a new wooden bathhouse in the city moat near the walls of Lviv. The document specifies the conditions for the construction and operation of the bathhouse, including separate entrances for men and women, and the amount of fees to be paid to the castle and the city council.

A document of the jurors of the city of Lwów certifying mutual property dispositions of the former village head Mikołaj and his wife Jadwiga in the event of the death of one of the spouses. The settlement includes, among others, half of a house in Lwów, movables, real estate, and a life interest in a pond in Zamarstynów.

The Magistrate asks its envoys for intervention and advice regarding municipal forests, labor duties, Ruthenians operating taverns, confiscated fish, real estate, pastures, transport services, an investigation into debts owed to Gdańsk merchants, and rumors about Tatars. The second part reports on a dispute over the execution of a court ruling concerning a mill, the deposit of a sum of 1500, and the objections of the Hinek family and Sieradzki. The authors complain about the conduct of the deputy starosta and the lack of permanent legal assistance; they announce further documents and send a copy of a letter from the Wisznia sejmik.

King Casimir IV Jagiellon approves two diplomas of the late Voivode and Starosta of Ruthenia, Andrzej Odrowąż of Sprowa, from the years 1466 and 1467 for the Metropolitan Chapter in Lviv. These documents concerned the granting of rights to meadows as well as profits and milling in mills for the endowment of the chapter's table.

Pope Sixtus IV commissions the Archdeacon and the Canon of Przemyśl, Mikołaj Bylina, to investigate and definitively resolve a property dispute between the Lviv Chapter and Elżbieta of Gołogóry regarding the seizure of the village of Wicyn. Despite the expiration of the appeal period, he orders the judges to hear the parties and compel witnesses under ecclesiastical censures without the possibility of further appeal.

King Casimir IV Jagiellon permits Jakub of Buczacz, Castellan of Halych, to found and endow an altar in the metropolitan cathedral in Lviv with a rent from the sum of 800 marks. The grant also includes the exemption of the prebend's estates from the jurisdiction of secular courts.

King John I Albert exempts Lviv fire victims from the newly established municipal tax and all other fees for 15 years, and other residents for 10 years. The relief is intended to enable recovery from fire damage and the reconstruction of houses, towers, and the city's defensive fortifications.

King John I Albert grants the college of perpetual vicars of the Lviv Cathedral permission to purchase a house with a plot of land in Lviv for their common residence. At the same time, he exempts this property and its inhabitants from municipal jurisdiction and all taxes and burdens, transferring it under ecclesiastical jurisdiction and immunity.

Barbara Mitulczyna testifies before the Lviv castle court that she acknowledges the receipt of 90 marks and transfers the royal mill in front of the Halych Gate in Lviv to Marcin Tłusty and his wife Małgorzata under a penalty of 300 marks. The transaction is certified by the General Starosta of Ruthenia and Podolia, Stanisław of Chodecz, along with witnesses.

Stanisław of Chodecz, Castellan of Lviv and General Starosta of Ruthenia, certifies the sale and resignation of a royal mill before the Halych Gate in Lviv by Jakub Zawisza and Anna Ważna to Marcin Tłusty and his wife Małgorzata for the sum of three hundred marks. The sellers transfer the mill along with the old privilege and undertake to defend and indemnify the buyers against any claims from third parties.

Provost of the Holy Spirit Hospital Jan Myszkowski and the mayor and councilors of Lviv submit the dispute over the management of the hospital and its assets to the Lviv canons as arbitrators. The parties undertake in good faith to submit to the amicable settlement under penalty of 200 florins.

Lviv Archbishop Bernard Wilczek erects the altar of St. Bartholomew the Apostle in the Metropolitan Cathedral in Lviv, founded by Elżbieta, widow of the Lviv Castellan Jerzy Strumiłło of Dmoszyn. The foundation is endowed with income from the Armenian bathhouse by virtue of transumed privileges of King John I Albert from the years 1494 and 1497.

King Sigismund I the Old approves and grants the city of Lviv its existing coat of arms depicting a gate with three towers and a standing lion. Furthermore, the monarch grants the municipal authorities the honorable privilege of sealing all documents and letters with red wax.

Before the Lviv land court, Jadwiga of Olesko, wife of the Podolian Voivode Marcin Kamieniecki, endowed the Archbishop of Lviv, Bernard Wilczek, with an annual rent (wyderkaf) of 10 grzywnas from a sum of 400 florins. This income, secured on the customs and ponds in Załoźce and Olesko, was designated for the maintenance of a lamp before the altar of St. George in the Lviv Cathedral.

The Lviv Land Court performs a transumption and confirmation of the privileges granted by Kings Casimir Jagiellon and Sigismund I the Old to the Church of Saint Nicholas outside the city of Lviv. The document confirms the exemption of the local presbyter, his successors, and the monastery itself from all taxes, tributes, and burdens owed to the Crown.

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 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.

The Lviv Cathedral Chapter approves the redemption by the cathedral preacher Jan Arundinensis of the third part of the Olszowy Mill and a garden in the Krakowskie Suburb, allocating these assets to the endowment of the preacher's office. At the same time, the Chapter leases to him for life the remaining two parts of the same mill under specified rental and economic conditions.

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.

Archbishop of Lwów Paweł Tarło, with the consent of the metropolitan chapter, abolishes the burdensome duty of daily Lenten preaching imposed on the cathedral preacher by the foundation of Archbishop Bernardyn Wilczek from 1507. Instead, he mandates that the preacher deliver sermons in the cathedral only on two selected weekdays each week of Lent, and on Sundays and feast days – both in the morning and in the afternoon.

The document certifies the sale of a plot of arable land and a vineyard in the village of Carzano by Giovanni, son of the late miller Simone, to Giovanni Battista Buffa for the sum of twelve and a half gold florins. The seller acknowledges receipt of the full payment, transfers possession rights, and commits to legally defending the transaction against potential claims by third parties.

Giovanni Rambaldo sells to Battista Buffa and his brother Pietro an annual rent in grain from land in Carzano for the sum of 27 Rhenish florins. Due to his age, the seller takes a solemn oath confirming the validity of the transfer of rights.

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.

Antonio, son of Nicola of Carzano, sells a garden and a meadow located in Carzano to Giovanni Battista Buffa of Telve di Sotto. The transaction is paid for and notarized in the presence of witnesses.

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.

Pope Gregory XIV notifies the Archbishop of Lviv of the transfer of Bishop Stanisław from the Diocese of Kamianets to the Diocese of Chełm. He instructs the Metropolitan to provide support to the new ordinary and his suffragan diocese, and to assist him in his governance and the protection of church rights.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the document issued by the Lviv Starosta, Mikołaj Herbort of Fulsztyn, to Jakub Czarnowski and his wife Dorota Todkowiecka, authorizing the construction of a dam, the establishment of a fish pond, and the erection of a mill on the Rokitna River, along with the granting of adjacent fields and meadows. The privilege specifies the amount of rent to be paid to the Lviv castle, the division of profits from draining the pond, and the assistance of local subjects with repairs.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the verdict of Archbishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski and the agreement concluded between the Metropolitan Chapter of Lviv and the magistrate of the city of Lviv in a dispute over the patronage of the provostship of the Holy Spirit Hospital. Under the approved settlement, the Lviv councilors retain the right of presentation to the provostship, choosing a candidate from among the canons, and the chapter undertakes to support the granting to the magistrate of the right of presentation to a second canonry for an educated clergyman.

A document by King Sigismund III Vasa establishing and approving uniform rates for duties collected by the Lwów magistrate on imported Greek, Malmsey, Hungarian, Moravian, and Dalmatian wines. Modeling the regulations on Kraków privileges, the monarch allocates these revenues to the maintenance of the municipal office and specifies penalties for non-compliance.

Lviv councilor Jerzy Boim, together with his wife Jadwiga and his family, allocates the sum of 2100 florins invested in Lviv townhouses to endow the Chapel of the Holy Trinity and the Passion of Christ, which he founded at the cathedral cemetery in Lviv. The document defines the right of patronage, the principles of fund management, the duties of four priests led by a senior, the order of services, and the right of burial.

Fr. Jan Baranowski, Archdeacon of Lviv, sells half of his newly built house in Lviv to Fabian Gryglewicz and his wife for 150 Polish zlotys. The document defines the terms of use for the plot and imposes on the buyers the obligation to pay an annual rent of 5 zlotys for an anniversary mass for the soul of the issuer.

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 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.

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.

The City Council of Lviv approves the agreement and ordinance concluded through council delegates between the masters and journeymen of the Lviv carpenters' guild, regulating, among other things, wages, working conditions, joint meetings, and the maintenance of the altar in the parish church.

King John II Casimir, at the coronation sejm, confirms to the Dominican convent at the Corpus Christi church in Lviv the privilege of King Władysław IV, which transumes earlier grants by Sigismund I, Casimir Jagiellon, Władysław Jagiełło, and Duke Władysław of Opole concerning landed estates, the monastery square, jurisdiction, and customs duties.

King John II Casimir confirms the statute of the Lviv guild of needle-makers and cutlers, granted and sealed by the city council of Lviv in 1649. The privilege contains articles regulating the organization of the brotherhood, the election of guild masters, the rights of masters, and the rules for training journeymen and apprentices.

Antoni Marciszowski, Rector of the Krakow Academy, recalls the bachelor Leydman from Lviv, who had fallen into conflict with the archbishop, and asks the Lviv magistrate to make a decision regarding the appointment of a rector for the cathedral school. He also expresses gratitude for the support in a legal case and mentions the Apostolic Nuncio's plans to reissue the works of the Lviv native Szymon Szymonowic.

King John Casimir approves the act of the Starosta of Lviv, Jan Mniszek, confirming the testamentary bequest of the burgher Semen Onufrijowicz, who donated a farmstead in Podzamcze, Lviv, for the construction of a church, the Monastery of St. John the Evangelist, and a printing house. The document exempts the planned foundation from taxes and municipal jurisdiction and entrusts its management to the Basilians under the authority of Father Symeon Siemionowicz.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Tarnowski approves the foundational endowments of brothers Marcin and Maciej Rzechowski and solemnly erects and endows a prebend at the church and hospital of St. Barbara in the suburbs of Rohatyn. The document details the liturgical duties of the prebendary, the management of the poor funds, and the right of patronage belonging to the founders, their Catholic successors in the Kutcze estate, and the Rohatyn magistrate.

King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki confirms the document of King John II Casimir approving the donation of a farmstead in the Lviv suburb of Podzamcze, made by the burgher Szymon Onufryjewicz. This endowment was intended for the construction of an Eastern Rite church and monastery of St. John the Evangelist, along with a printing house.

King John III Sobieski confirms the privilege of Sigismund III Vasa from 1612, which contains the confirmation of the statutes of the Lwów surgeons' guild from 1611. The document regulates the admission and examination of new masters, the rights of widows, the duties of journeymen and apprentices, and the prohibition of unauthorized competition by non-guild members (partacze).

King John III Sobieski approves the 1687 ordinance of the Lwów magistrate for the local surgeons' guild. The document defines the rules for admitting masters, sets their fixed number at sixteen, and prohibits Jewish surgeons from treating Christians.

The elders of the Tailors' Guild in Kraków certify that Szymon Kubiszowski from Żabno completed a four-year tailoring apprenticeship under the Kraków master Tomasz Rybalski and fulfilled all guild obligations. The issuers recommend him to other masters and guilds as a trained and upright craftsman.