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Before the bench court of Lwów, juror Andrzej Jelonek, with the consent of the municipal authorities, sold to the Castellan of Przemyśl, Mikołaj Herburt Odnowski, a plot behind the butcher stalls for the construction of a house for the mansionaries of the Lwów Cathedral for the sum of 130 florins. The document defines the conditions of municipal immunity for the newly established clergy house and the rules for erecting a boundary wall.

Mikołaj Odnowski Herburt of Fulsztyn, Castellan of Przemyśl and General Starosta of Ruthenia, founds and endows a college of five mansionaries at the high altar of the Lviv Cathedral. He secures their maintenance from his estates of Grzęda and Grzybowice and imposes liturgical duties upon them, including the celebration of the office and masses for the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Lviv Archbishop Piotr Starzechowski approves the foundation document of the Castellan of Przemyśl and General Starosta of Ruthenia, Mikołaj Herburt Odnowski, establishing and endowing a college of five mansionaries at the main altar of the Lviv Cathedral.

A document by the subcamerarius of Przemyśl, Stanisław Herburt of Fulsztyn, and the wojski of Przemyśl, Maciej Boguski, confirming the execution of a site inspection, the determination of boundaries, and the raising of boundary mounds between the villages of Bieńkowa Wisznia, Jatwięgi, and Sychtarowice and the village of Milczyce. The boundary dispute was resolved at the request of the heirs of the aforementioned estates.

King Sigismund I the Old renews the privileges of the Lwów clothiers lost in a fire, confirming their exclusive right to cut and sell cloth by the ell in the city of Lwów and prohibiting this practice by other merchants under penalty of confiscation of goods. The monarch orders the starosta and the municipal authorities of Lwów to provide the clothiers' guild with all assistance and protection in enforcing these rights.

King Sigismund II Augustus confirms the verdict of the General Sejm in Kraków, which dismissed the lawsuit brought by the nobleman Wasiek Łahodowski against the authorities of Lwów before the castle court. The document confirms the privilege exempting Lwów burghers from foreign jurisdiction and orders that they be sued exclusively before the municipal court.

King Sigismund II Augustus annuls the donation of a plot of land near the Low Castle in Lviv made to Mikołaj Leśniowski of Zimna Woda, citing a threat to the defense of the city and the castle. He orders the Starosta of Lviv to demolish the buildings erected there and forbids the city authorities from allowing further development of this area.

King Sigismund II Augustus abolishes the burdensome tribute in kind of live fish, hitherto paid by the burghers of Lwów to the royal castle, replacing it with a fixed monetary fee collected from vessels containing fish brought to the city market. He orders the Starosta of Lwów and his officials to strictly observe the newly established market tax.

King Henry Valois, at the coronation sejm, confirms all rights, privileges, immunities, and customs granted to the Lviv Armenian community by his predecessors. He orders royal officials and the municipal authorities of Lviv to strictly observe and protect the Lviv Armenians.

The document transsumes and confirms a parliamentary judgment of King Stephen Báthory resolving a dispute between the authorities of the city of Lwów and the Lwów Starosta, Mikołaj Herburt. The King limits the number of craftsmen under the Starosta's jurisdiction, prohibits the operation of taverns and a new market in the suburb of Podzamcze, and confirms the ancient privileges of the burghers regarding the trade of salt and fish, exemption from customs and market fees, as well as cattle grazing and the use of royal forests.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms the lifetime grant of land on Lion Mountain near Lwów made by the Lwów starosta Mikołaj Herburt to the neophyte Stanisław Tatar. The user is obliged to pay an annual rent of ten Polish groschen to the Lwów castle on St. Martin's Day.

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.