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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.

The sender mentions travelling to Lublin to collect money and asks the recipient to act in the matter. The text also mentions the Łomża starosta (uncertain reading). Illegible passages prevent the amount, course of the matter, and relationships between the people from being established. The closing date formula gives May 1650, but the day is unknown.

King Stephen Báthory transumes his edict of February 20, 1577, in which he cancels all commissions appointed to investigate the complaints of the commoners against the Lwów magistrate and reserves the case exclusively for the royal court under a penalty of 15,000 ducats. He orders both parties to appear with evidence before the monarch's court, prohibiting any conflicts or violations of legal order in the meantime.

The writer discusses an amount due or a debt and gives a partial account of sums and earlier settlements. The document contains figures and calculations, but damage and difficult handwriting prevent a reliable reading of all entries or the final total.

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.

The writer addresses Forbes concerning a debt or amount due, mentions promised payment and goods/accounting connected with beer, and asks that the matter be settled. Details and amounts are uncertain.

Archbishop of Lwów Jan Sienieński, together with the cathedral chapter, re-establishes the town of Kozłów, devastated by a Tatar raid, under Magdeburg law following the model of Dunajów, and grants the inhabitants a fifteen-year tax exemption. After this period, the document specifies the permanent obligations of the subjects, including monetary rents, the extent of corvée labor, and tributes in kind to the archbishop's court.

Archbishop of Lviv Jan Sienieński approves the transumed privileges of the Bishop of Chełm, Wojciech Sobiejowski, and King Stefan Batory regarding the annexation of the parish church in Łopatyn to the parish in Busk. The act sanctions the new foundation of a college of five mansionaries along with a provost at the Busk church and defines their pastoral duties and endowment.

The writer describes a matter involving amounts due or an account, refers to earlier correspondence and Warsaw, and asks the recipient for help or further action. The handwriting is difficult, so details and relationships between the people remain uncertain.

King Stephen Báthory resolves a dispute between the nobility of the Ruthenian Voivodeship and the magistrate of Lwów, annulling the incorporation of the suburban villages of Zubrza and Sichów into the Magdeburg law and subjecting disputes regarding their lands and military obligations to the land law (ius terrestre). Simultaneously, the monarch confirms the jurisdiction of municipal law and the royal court over the burghers, municipal officials, and their urban properties.

The guardian of the Franciscan convent in Lviv petitions the Most Illustrious Lords to grant a piece of land between the city walls and the convent. He explains that the existing site is too small and poor, and that building there would require demolishing the chapel where the Blessed Sacrament is kept. He mentions a foundation by a benefactress named Sophia (surname uncertain).

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.

The sender writes about a matter connected with Brody, mentions the starosta, and refers to a “declaration,” asking the recipient to take further action. Difficult handwriting and illegible passages prevent the exact subject or course of the matter from being established. The letter’s dateline appears to read Brody, 13 April 1697.

King Stephen Báthory approves and renews the old articles and customs of the united guild of turners and comb-makers of the city of Lwów. The document regulates in detail the rules for submitting a masterpiece, accepting apprentices and masters, the functioning of guild authorities, and penalties for violating craft regulations.

The writer describes a legal matter connected with the Lviv Tribunal, refers to verdicts and the depository of the city of Lviv, and asks the recipient for help or further action. Details of the dispute are partly illegible. The letter ends with the year 1739; the day and month cannot be read with confidence.

The city councilors of Lwów transcribe and certify the privilege of King Stephen Báthory from 1578, which approves the statutes (wilkierz) of the Lwów woodturners' guild. The document regulates in detail the rules for becoming a master, the execution of masterpieces, religious and defensive duties, and the fight against unauthorized craftsmen (partacze).

King Stephen Báthory resolves a dispute between the Armenian community and the magistrate of the city of Lwów, granting the Armenians rights equal to those of other burghers regarding trade, crafts, and the use of municipal liberties. The document simultaneously guarantees the preservation of the separate customary laws and the internal judiciary of the Armenian community.

The sender writes to the president and magistracy of Lwów about a death requiring investigation. The text refers to an inquiry, a declaration or testimony, and people described as Jews, but the difficult handwriting does not allow the connections between these references or details of the event to be reconstructed reliably. The letter’s dateline gives 22 January 1710; the place is uncertain.

King Stephen Báthory confirms the commission act establishing the boundaries between the villages of the Lviv Dominican convent of Corpus Christi (Zarudtsi, Koshchiyiv, Zashkiv) and the royal and municipal estates. The document cites the findings of the royal commissioners and transumes the royal letter appointing the commission, which refers to the former demarcations of Duke Władysław of Opole.

The city councilors of Lwów establish and approve the statute of the Lwów surgeons' guild, defining the conditions for obtaining master status, requirements for performing masterworks, and rules for apprenticeship. The document also imposes on guild members the obligation to provide an armed man to the town hall in case of need and to treat wounded city guards free of charge.

Lviv Archbishop Jan Sienieński, by his ordinary authority, approves the privilege of King Stefan Batory from 1576, which incorporates the provostry of the Lviv Holy Spirit Hospital, along with the right of patronage, into the Lviv Cathedral Chapter.

The document constitutes a royal confirmation of the guild statutes of the surgeons and barbers of Lwów, previously enacted by the Lwów city council. It establishes detailed rules for master examinations, apprenticeship, professional practice, as well as the guild's obligations regarding defense and the provision of free medical treatment for city guards.

The writer explains that a mandate from the Most Illustrious Lord of Kraków required him to travel to Brody. He regrets that he cannot serve the recipients at the appointed commission; he mentions poor health and hetman’s orders as obstacles. Dated Brody, 26 April 1723.

King Stephen Báthory, at the request of the envoys of the city of Lwów, approves the document of King Władysław Jagiełło dated October 1, 1389, incorporating Lwów into the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. The monarch pledges not to violate the affiliation of the city and the land of Lwów with the Kingdom.

The surviving address sheet directs the letter to Albert Romanowski, alderman and civil notary of Żółkiew. The letter text on p. 2 is too difficult to read in the available reproduction to identify its subject safely. No date has been established from the letter itself; 30 June 1627 appears on the archival cover and is not assigned to the letter.

King Stephen Báthory confirms the 1547 privilege of King Sigismund I granted to the cloth cutters of Lwów. The act guarantees them exclusivity in the retail trade and shearing of cloth in Lwów under penalty of confiscation of illegal goods.

Fr. Bernardinus a Capistrano addresses the authorities of Lviv concerning the Franciscan convent and the Church of St Anthony. The surviving Latin text presents a petition and arguments about the religious community and the city; the exact scope of the request should be treated cautiously. Dated Kraków, 28 March 1617.

The Vogt and jurors of Kraków, at the request of the Lwów scribe Paweł Szczerbic, certify the custom of electing the college of forty men practiced in Kraków, to which a royal decree for Lwów referred. According to the Kraków practice, twenty members are elected by the guild masters from among the merchants, and another twenty are designated by the merchants from among the guild masters, with the participation of eleven jurors.

PDF p. 2 contains one letter, and p. 3 its folded address sheet, whose writing is very faint; these are not two separate documents. The available reproduction does not permit a reliable reconstruction of the substance, date, place, or signature. The archival cover describes it as a letter from a Crown wojsky at the camp near Świrz to the magistracy of Lwów, but this is external description, and the date of 7 August 1661 recorded there has not been confirmed in the letter itself.

King Stephen Báthory resolves a dispute between the authorities and commonalty of Lwów and Starosta Mikołaj Herburt and the tax collector, ruling that the city is obligated to pay only a double tax rate, which includes the suburbs and city fields. The monarch forbids the collection of a separate tax on city lands and craft workshops, annulling the previous judgments of the starosta.

Pope Gregory XIII notifies the vassals of the Church of Lviv of the appointment of Jan Dymitr Solikowski to the office of archbishop following the death of Archbishop Jan. He orders them to receive the new pastor with due respect, to maintain fidelity, and to fulfill customary obligations under threat of ecclesiastical penalties.

The sender addresses the councillors of Lwów with wishes for health and every good thing in the new year. He mentions receiving a letter that day and refers to a matter involving the city, though the further details are difficult to read. The dateline on the letter itself reads “Dan z Wolbora 30 Januaryi 1575.” The name and title in the signature are tentatively read as Erazm Karnkowski, bishop of Kujawy. The archival cover gives 29 January 1575, but that is an archival description date and differs from the letter’s dateline.

Pope Gregory XIII notifies the people of the city and diocese of Lviv of the appointment of Jan Dymitr Solikowski to the office of archbishop following the death of his predecessor, Jan. He commands the faithful to receive their new shepherd with due reverence and to be obedient to his pastoral authority.

The sender addresses Mr Janocki and describes her affairs; the text appears to refer to efforts or matters before the king, but the details and request are not fully legible. The letter’s dateline gives 25 July 1619. The address sheet indicates Warsaw as the destination, not the place of composition. The author and the recipient’s precise office remain uncertain.

Pope Gregory XIII authorizes the Archbishop-elect of Lviv, Jan Dymitr Solikowski, to receive episcopal consecration from any Catholic bishop in communion with the Apostolic See. The condition for receiving the sacrament is the prior taking of the oath of fidelity cited in the text, a certified copy of which the elect must send to Rome under penalty of suspension.

The writer discusses a matter connected with a commission and further proceedings, mentioning people and actions that cannot be fully read. The specific request remains uncertain. The dateline on p. 2 is tentatively read as 23 February 1722; the place is illegible.

Pope Gregory XIII grants the altar of St. Anne in the Church of St. Andrew of the Bernardines in Lviv the privilege of a privileged altar. By virtue of this, every mass for the dead celebrated at this altar by a friar of this convent brings an indulgence releasing a soul from purgatory.

The memorial presented to Jan Małachowski, Grand Chancellor of the Crown, concerns a claim connected with a sum of 400 red złotys. The author recounts an earlier obligation and an estate/testament matter, and asks the chancellor to recommend that the magistracy of Lwów, acting as executor of the will, settle the claim with accrued interest. The relationships among the people named and the precise terms of the debt require further checking. The document’s heading says the memorial was submitted on 28 May 1760.

King Stephen Báthory performs a transumpt and confirmation of sixteen decrees from 1578 issued in disputes between the council and the commonalty of Lwów and the Lwów Starosta, Mikołaj Herburt of Fulsztyn. The document resolves, among other things, issues of the election of councilors, municipal and castle jurisdiction, keys to the gates, billeting, tax obligations, and the use of mills.

The writer addresses a high-ranking recipient and mentions a letter or message that did not reach him, as well as further correspondence. The people involved and the substance remain illegible.

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.

The writer addresses a high-ranking woman and refers to information and a matter requiring further action; there may also be a reference to a sum or account. The specific request cannot be reconstructed from the partly illegible text. The dateline reads 21 September 1699.

King Stefan Batory approves the statutes of the carpenters' guild in Lviv, originally granted in 1562 by the city council, comprising twenty-three articles regulating the organization of the craft, apprenticeship, and the rights of masters and journeymen. Simultaneously, the monarch grants the Lviv carpenters' guild the same rights as the Krakow guild and prohibits 'partacze' (unauthorized craftsmen) and non-guild artisans from practicing the craft and selling their products within the city and its surroundings.

The writer addresses a high-ranking woman, discusses a matter requiring further action, and mentions a sum or account; the reading of details is uncertain. The closing dateline gives 20 December 1685.