Document of King Sigismund III Vasa incorporating the provostry in Busk into the Lviv archdeaconry

SIGISMUND Third by the grace of God KING OF POLAND, Grand DUKE of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, and also hereditary King of the Swedes, Goths and Vandals etc. We hereby announce to all and each person concerned by this letter. Since the Most Reverend Lord Jan Zamoyski, Archbishop of Lviv etc., has submitted to us that, with the advice and consent of his Chapter, as the great necessity of his diocese required it, he has erected or – once erected, but extinguished by the adversities of time – newly revived in his Metropolitan Church of LVIV the office and dignity of archdeacon; however, he could in no way provide for the maintenance of the burdens of this dignity and ecclesiastical office from the modest and meager revenues of his archbishopric, and he asked us that we might deign, out of our royal grace, to attach and incorporate the Busk provostry, subject to our royal right of patronage, to the aforementioned archdeaconry. We, desiring to multiply the worship of God and to strive for the good administration of the Church, and also to show favor to the aforementioned Lord Archbishop, do perpetually attach and incorporate the said Busk provostry to the thus erected archdeaconry, and we cede and grant the right of our royal patronage, which we have hitherto exercised in the appointment of the said provostry, to the Lord Archbishop and the Lviv Chapter and their successors: so that whatever CANON, previously holding a canonry of the said church by virtue of our royal right, the chapter shall choose from among its members according to canonical regulations as archdeacon, and the same archbishop shall confirm and strengthen him, immediately to the same thus confirmed and strengthened archdeacon, the Lord Archbishop together with the Chapter has the right to grant the said provostry and shall exercise this right perpetually and forever. In witness whereof, we have ordered this [letter], signed by our hand, to be strengthened with the seal of our Kingdom. Given in Warsaw, on the 18th day of April, in the YEAR OF OUR LORD 1606, of our reign in POLAND the nineteenth, and in SWEDEN the THIRTEENTH. [Under the fold on the left side, the king's autograph signature:] Sigismund King [Under the fold on the right side, the secretary's signature:] Jan Wielicki [On the fold on the right side, a chancery note:] Entry of the Busk provostry into the archdeaconry of the Lviv cathedral church [...] [On the fold, a later visitation entry from the 18th century:] I have seen, Jerzy Count Melio[...] archdeacon of Lviv 17[..] [Verso:] [Archival and registration notes:] [...] Busk provostry incorporated into the Lviv archdeaconry Lit. Fasc. C N. K. / 36. Tworzyjański [Label with signature:] J. 1 / 6

SIGISMVNDVS Tertius Dei gratia REX POLONIÆ, magnus DVX Lithuaniæ, Russiæ, Prussiæ, Masouiæ, Samogitiæ, Liuoniæque, nec non Suecorum, Gottorum, Vandalorumq[ue] hæreditarius Rex etc. Significamus præsentibus l[itte]ris n[ost]ris quorum interest vniuersis et singulis. Quia cum nobis R[everen]ndis[simus] D[omi]n[u]s Ioannes Zamoyski Archiep[iscop]us Leopolien[sis] etc. posuisset, se de consilio et consensu sui Capituli, magna id suæ diœcesis exigente necessitate, erexisse, seu olim erectum, sed iniuria temporum extinctum denuo in sua Ecclesia Metropolitana LEOPOLIE[NSI] siue excitasse officium et Dignitatem Archidiaconi; prouisionem tamen propter eius dignitatis et officij eccl[esi]æ onera sustinenda de modicis ac tenuibus sui Archiep[iscop]atus prouentibus facere minime potuisse, a nobisq[ue] postulasset vt Præposituram Buscen[sem] iurispatronatus n[ost]ri Regij dicto Archidiaconatui de benignitate n[ost]ra Regia adiungere et incorporare dignaremur. Nos diuinum cultum augere ac bonum Eccl[esi]æ regimen promouere prædictoq[ue] D[omi]no Archiep[iscop]o gratificari cupientes prædictam Buscen[sem] Præposituram sic erecto Archidiaconatui adiungimus perpetuo ac incorporamus, Iusq[ue] patronatus no[st]ri Regij, quo hactenus in conferenda dicta Præpositura vsi sumus, D[omi]no Archiep[iscop]o et Capitulo Leopolien[si] eorumq[ue] successoribus concedimus ac donamus: ita vt quemcunq[ue] CANONICVM vigore iuris n[ost]ri Regij antea Canonicatum d[i]c[t]æ eccl[esi]æ tenentem de medio sui Capitulum secundum sanctiones Canonicas in Archidiaconum elegerit, ac eundem Archiep[iscop]us approbauerit ac confirmauerit, statim eidem sic con: firmato et approbato Archidiacono D[omi]nus Archiep[iscop]us dictam Præposituram cum Capitulo conferendi ius habeat, ac eo vtatur perpetuo et in æuum. In cuius rei fidem præsentes manu nostra sub: scriptas sigillo Regni n[ost]ri communiri iussimus. Datum Varsouiæ die XVIII. mensis Aprilis, ANNO DOMINI. M. DC. VI. Regnorum n[ost]rorum POLONIÆ Decimonono, SVECIÆ vero Anno TREDECIMO. [Pod zakładką z lewej strony podpis własnoręczny króla:] Sigismundus Rex [Pod zakładką z prawej strony podpis sekretarza:] Joannes Wieliczki [Na zakładce z prawej strony nota kancelaryjna:] Inscriptio Praepositurae Buscen[sis] Archidiaconatui Eccl[esiae] Cat[hedralis Leopoliensis...] [Na zakładce późniejszy wpis wizytacyjny z XVIII w.:] Vidi Georgius Comes Melio[...] Archidiaconus Leopo[liensis] 17[..] [Verso:] [Noty archiwalne i rejestracyjne:] [...] Praepositura Buscensis ad Archidiaconatum Leopoliensem incorporata Lit. Fasc. C N. K. / 36. Tworzyjanski [Nalepka z sygnaturą:] J. 1 / 6