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Royal commissioners Andrzej Odrowąż and Jerzy Strumiło demarcated the estates of the Lviv Cathedral Chapter in the village of Kuhajów from the royal villages of Honiatycze and Czerkasy. The meadows and thickets indicated in the description, within the boundaries marked by mounds, were adjudged to the perpetual possession of the Lviv Chapter.

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 confirms the privilege of King Alexander Jagiellon allowing the cathedral chapter in Lviv to redeem the village of Czerkasy from leaseholders. The confirmed estates are incorporated in perpetuity into the endowment of the Lviv Metropolitan Chapter.

Archbishop Bernard Wilczek confirms that the canons of the Lviv Chapter sold, under a wyderkauf (redemption) agreement, houses belonging to the foundation of a Polish preacher, allocating the obtained 300 florins to the redemption of the village of Czerkasy. In return, the Chapter committed to paying the preacher an annual rent of 6 grzywnas in exchange for celebrating two masses per week.

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.

The Lviv land judge and sub-judge certify an entry from the castle court books of 1510 regarding the redemption of rights to the royal village of Czerkasy by the Lviv Metropolitan Chapter from Dmytro and Onyszko for the sum of 200 grzywnas. The act also confirms the renunciation of claims by the previous holders and the legal intromission of the Chapter into the possession of these goods performed by a court bailiff.

King Sigismund I the Old resolves a dispute between Dymitr Tyrawa and the Lviv Cathedral Chapter, adjudging the perpetual ownership of the village of Czerkasy to the Chapter based on a previous royal donation and the fact that the former pledge had been redeemed. Given the proof of payment of the pledge sum and the lack of other legal titles on the part of the claimant, the King imposes perpetual silence on Dymitr and his descendants.

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 the commission act establishing the boundaries between royal villages and the estates of the Lviv Metropolitan Chapter. The issuer grants perpetual legal force to the findings of the commissioners previously appointed by Sigismund I the Old.

Lviv Archbishop Feliks Ligęza confirms the possession of the estates of the Cathedral Chapter and Lviv vicars, including villages, mills, gardens, and urban plots. By his ordinary authority, he incorporates these properties into ecclesiastical immunity, guaranteeing them full ecclesiastical rights and freedoms.

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.

King Sigismund II Augustus confirms three ancient commission documents from the years 1440, 1442, and 1464 concerning the delimitation of the estates of the Lviv Metropolitan Chapter (Wierzbiąż and Kahujów) with the royal villages of Honiatycze and Czerkasy. The confirmed acts award the disputed lands to the Chapter and impose perpetual silence on their lessees.