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King Sigismund II Augustus approves a transsumpt from the Lviv land records, in which the Lviv burgher Sebald Wortzel mortgages the village of Zamarstynów to Field Hetman Mikołaj Sieniawski in exchange for a debt of 5,500 florins. The document sanctions the submission of this transaction to land law despite the earlier opposition of the Lviv municipal authorities.

The writer sends the authorities of Lviv a lengthy, formal letter concerning a matter requiring consideration. References to Warsaw, officials, and a request that the matter be taken up are legible, but the substance cannot be confidently reconstructed. There is no reliable dateline in the text.

The document confirms the ordinance of the Surgeons' Guild in Lviv, which was reformed and supplemented by the municipal authorities in 1611. King Sigismund III Vasa approves the submitted guild articles regulating, among other things, professional practice, master examinations, and the functioning of the brotherhood.

King Sigismund III Vasa transfers the collection of starosta revenues to the Lwów magistrate in exchange for a fixed annual fee of 2100 florins and authorizes the collection of a storage fee from merchants for the construction of new city fortifications. The document simultaneously limits the competencies of the Lwów starosta in favor of municipal jurisdiction and regulates the issue of quartering.

Dominican Provincial Hyacinthus Terrarius authorizes Prior Hyacinthus Rzeczkowski to establish and oversee a Rosary Confraternity at the church in Zubra, in the Archdiocese of Lviv. The document includes subsequent approvals by the Archbishops of Lviv, Konstanty Lipski in 1687 and Jan Skarbek in 1724.

In recognition of the loyalty and sacrifices of Lwów during the wars, King John II Casimir equalizes the city and its citizens with Kraków and Wilno in terms of rights, liberties, and noble privileges. The burghers of Lwów are granted the right to participate in royal elections, attend the Sejm, and freely acquire and possess landed estates.

Archbishop of Lviv Konstanty Lipski confirms and renews the erection of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament at the Lviv Cathedral, transuming the approval document of Apostolic Nuncio Opizio Pallavicini from 1681. He grants the confraternity statutes, jurisdictional powers for its confessors, and a forty-day indulgence for performing specific pious practices.

Pope Innocent XI grants the chapter and capitular canons of the Metropolitan Church of Lviv an indult allowing the permanent use of a violet cappa magna with a train and hood, as well as a rochet, during all public and private liturgical and capitular functions. The document was entered into the capitular acts with the approval of the Archbishop of Lviv, Konstanty Lipski.

Archbishop of Lviv Konstanty Lipski erects and approves an altary at the chapel of the councilors (literati) in the Lviv Archcathedral, founded from the testamentary bequest of councilor Stanisław Majdeszewicz in the amount of 10,000 Polish zlotys secured on the Jelonkowska tenement house. The document defines the liturgical duties of the beneficiary, the settlement of the annual rent, and grants the right of patronage to Tomasz Belli and Michał Boim, and after them, to the city council of Lviv.

[Polish; translation pending] Arcybiskup lwowski Konstanty Lipski zatwierdza i eryguje fundację Zofii z Wydżgów Kłuńskiej w wysokości 10 000 złotych polskich, zabezpieczoną na dobrach Andrzeja Szymonowicza. Dochód z tego kapitału przeznaczono na odprawianie mszy o Męce Pańskiej z udziałem kapeli muzycznej oraz na oświetlenie ołtarza Świętej Trójcy i krucyfiksu w katedrze lwowskiej.

[Polish; translation pending] Konstanty Mrozowicki, administrator sede vacante archidiecezji lwowskiej, zatwierdza donację wsi Wołosów i Cucyłów dokonaną przez Aleksandra i Kazimierza Kuropatwów na rzecz kapituły metropolitalnej. Na uposażeniu tych dóbr eryguje nowy kanonikat fundacji Kuropatwów herbu Jastrzębiec, określając obowiązki mszalne kanonika oraz prawo patronatu dla rodziny fundatorów.

Wojciech Siemieński declares to the Voivode of Ruthenia, Jan Jabłonowski, his readiness to participate with the nobility in the planned ceremony. He also promises to invite local dignitaries on his behalf and announces a meeting in Mościska.