Confirmation by King Władysław IV of the rights and duties of the inhabitants of Biłohorszcze near Lviv

[Calligraphic header and historiated initial with an image of the King:] WŁADYSŁAW IV, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia and Chernihiv, and also hereditary King of the Swedes, Goths and Vandals. We hereby announce to all and each person concerned that there has been presented to us, in the name and on behalf of the inhabitants of the Lviv suburb commonly called Biłohorszcze, a certain decree of the late Most Serene Sigismund Augustus, King of Poland, our predecessor, issued in Kraków on the Saturday before the upcoming Sunday of Laetare in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and fifty-nine, as well as certain rescripts, acts of sale, and concessions of the distinguished magistrate of the city of Lviv, both to the inhabitants of the aforementioned suburb of Biłohorszcze [erased letters: xxxxx...], and we were humbly requested to approve, ratify, and confirm by our royal authority that decree of the Most Serene King Sigismund Augustus, as well as the same concessions, rescripts, and sales of that distinguished council office, as well as the ancient customs, immunities, and freedoms of these townspeople, just as these goods were long ago organized and the aforementioned suburbanites were settled on those plots. We, therefore, accustomed to justice [---], have decided that the aforementioned concessions, provisions, rescripts, sales, exchanges, as well as the ancient rights, freedoms, and immunities [---] expressed in these writings of the distinguished council office, by our royal authority, which belongs to us in such matters by supreme law, on behalf of our Majesty, should be approved, ratified, and confirmed, just as indeed, insofar as it was in accordance with the law and insofar as their custom persists, we hereby approve, ratify, and confirm with our letter, deciding that they shall obtain the power and force of perpetual durability, and each of the subject suburbanites shall be peacefully and safely maintained on the aforementioned plots according to their share and the concurrence of rights, provided, however, that they shall render the burdens and ancient rents, accepted and usually provided to the lonheria, to the same [city], and that each of them shall be obliged to perform labor, commonly called szarwarki, for one day in the month per year, and furthermore to bring sand, stones, and bricks for the repair of city walls and public roads for one day in the month, and from the remaining undue and unaccepted taxes, burdens, and services they shall be free. Military stations, commonly called żołnierszczyzna, shall be borne forever by the possessors of those plots in Biłohorszcze without any objection, equally according to the size of their property, each of them, of whatever status they might be. With the rights of our royal person, the Commonwealth, and the Church kept intact. In witness whereof, we have ordered this letter, signed by our hand, to be strengthened with the royal seal. Given in Warsaw on the 7th day of June in the year of our Lord 1635, in the third year of our reign in Poland, and the fourth in Sweden. Władysław King [On the plica / fold of the parchment:] Andrzej Kowaliński [Verso:] [Note 1:] Privilege of Władysław for the inhabitants of Biłohorszcze on the condition of their performing szarwark for the city, issued on June 7, 1635. [Note 2 - entry of oblatio from 1636:] On the Saturday after the Sunday of Reminiscere of the upcoming Lent in the year of our Lord 1636. [...] [Other archival notes:] To bundle 125 No. 8. 1635

[Nagłówek kaligraficzny i inicjał figuralny z wizerunkiem króla:] VLADISLAVS IV Dei gr[ati]a Rex Poloniae, Magnus Dux Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogitiae, Livoniae, Smolensciae, Severiae, Czernihoviaeque, necnon Suecorum, Gottorum, Vandalorumq[ue] haereditarius REX. Significamus praesen[tibus] l[itte]ris n[ost]ris quorum interest universis & singulis. Exhibitum nobis esse nomine & ex parte Incolarum Suburbij Leopoldien[sis] vulgo Bielohorsce dicti decretum certum Serenissimi olim Sigismundi Augusti Regis Poloniae Antecessoris n[ost]ri de data Cracoviae Sabbatho ante D[omi]nicam Laetare proxime Anno Domini Millesimo Quingentesimo Quinquagesimo Nono factu[m], tum & certa rescripta, venditiones ac spectabilis Magistratus Civitatis Leopoldiensis concessiones tam Incolis praefati Suburbij Bielohorsce [skasowane litery: xxxxx...] supplicatumq[ue] nobis est, ut illud Serenissimi Regis Sigismundi Augusti decretum ac easdem Spectabilis Consulatus concessiones rescripta venditiones tum et antiqua tum consuetudines immunitates & libertates eorunde[m] Oppidanorum prout ab antiquo ea bona disposita & p[rae]fati Suburbani in ijsdem lancis locati sunt, authe[ntica] n[ost]ra Regia approbare, ratificare & confirmare dignaremur. Nos itaq[ue] iustitiam prosequi [---] consuevimus, praemissasque Spectabilis Consulatus Leopoldien[sis] concessiones, ordinat[i]o[n]es, rescripta, venditiones, commitones, nec non antiqua iura, libertates, immunitates [---] tes in ijsdem l[itte]ris Spl[idi]s Consulatus expressis, authe[ntica] n[ost]ra Regia, qua nobis in talibus iure supremo competit, M[aiesta]tis n[ost]rae approbanda, ratificanda & confirmanda esse duximus, prout quidem, quantu[m] de iure fuit & usus eoru[m] habetur, approbamus, ratificamus & confirmam[us] praesen[tibus] l[itte]ris n[ost]ris, decernen[tes] eas vim & robur perpetuae firmit[atis] obtinere debere, ac circa p[rae]fat[os] laneos, quemlib[et] subiectorum Suburbanor[um] pro forte & concurre[n]te sua quiete & pacifice conservari, Ita tam[en] ut onera & census antiquus recepti & praestari soliti ad Loncheria[m] eidem reddere, Labores etiam vulgo Szarwarki dicti quilibet illor[um], uno intra mensem anni diem praestare, praeterea arena[m], lapides & lateres pro reparat[i]o[n]e moeniu[m] Civit[atis] & viar[um] publicar[um] uno die per unu[m] mense[m] advehere teneantur, a reliquis vero indebitis & non receptis exact[i]o[n]ibus onerib[us] & angarijs sint liberi. Stationes aute[m] militari vulgo Zołnierszczyzna dicti ad eos eoru[n]d[em] in Bielohorsce Laneor[um] possesso[res] absq[ue] ulla contradict[i]one ex aequo iuxta qualitatem possessio[nis] suae quilibet illorum, cuiuscunq[ue] condit[i]o[nis] subire erit perpetuo adstrictus. Iuribus n[ost]ris Regalibus & Reipub[licae] & Eccles[iae] circa salutis. In cuius rei fidem praesentes manu n[ost]ra subscriptas sigillo R[eg]ni communiri mandavimus. Datum Varsaviae die VII Mensis Iunij Anno D[omi]ni MDCXXXV Regnorum n[ost]rorum Poloniae III Sueciae vero IV Anno. Vladislaus Rex [Na plice / zagięciu pergaminu:] Andr[zej] Kowalinski [Verso:] [Nota 1:] Privilegium Vladislai Bielohorcensibus cum conditione szarwark per eos Civitati dand[i] de a[nn]o 1635 7. Iunii Dat[um] [Nota 2 - wpis oblaty z 1636 r.:] Sabbato post Dominicam Reminiscere Quadrag[esimae] prox[ima] a[nn]o D[omi]ni 1636. [...] [Inne noty archiwalne:] Ad Fasc: 125 N. 8. 1635