Confirmation of the rights and privileges of the Tailors' Guild of the city of Lwów by King Augustus II

AUGUSTUS THE SECOND, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, KING OF POLAND, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlachia, Smolensk, Severia, and Chernihiv, as well as Hereditary Duke of Saxony and Prince-Elector. To all and everyone whom it may concern, we hereby announce by this our letter that through certain of our councilors remaining at our side, there were presented and shown to us in the name and on behalf of the Tailors' Guild of our city of Lwów parchment documents containing confirmations of the rights, privileges, and ordinances serving the same guild. First, the ordinance drawn up by the noble and distinguished Lwów magistrate in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and twenty-eight, then by our Most Serene Predecessors, that is: SIGISMUND the First in Kraków on the Tuesday after the feast of the Most Holy Trinity in the year of our Lord 1533, SIGISMUND AUGUSTUS in Warsaw at the general crown sejm on the eleventh day of the month of June in the year of our Lord 1570, STEPHEN in Toruń at the general crown assembly on the fifth day of the month of November in the year of our Lord 1576, LADISLAUS IV in Lwów on the twenty-sixth day of October in the year of our Lord 1634, JOHN CASIMIR in Sambor on the thirty-first day of the month of August in the year of our Lord 1649 [in the text: 1609], MICHAEL in Lwów under the date of the twenty-sixth day of the month of October in the year of our Lord 1671, and also by the immediate [predecessor] JOHN the Third in Jaworów on the Tuesday before the third Sunday after the nearest Easter in the year of our Lord 1672, a decree in the assessor courts of the crown chancellery [...] most graciously granted and bestowed by royal benevolence, signed with the own hands of the above-mentioned Most Serene Predecessors and strengthened with the hanging seals of both the greater and lesser crown chancellery, sound, whole, and intact, and free from any stain of suspicion. And a request was brought to us by these same councilors of ours in the name of the aforementioned Lwów Tailors' Guild, that we might deign to approve, confirm, and ratify these same rights, privileges, and ordinances with our Royal authority. We, therefore, AUGUSTUS THE KING, graciously acceding to their request as just and consistent with equity, have deemed it appropriate to approve, confirm, and ratify all the above-listed rights, privileges, and ordinances of the same guild (which we wish to have included and expressed herein) in all and each of their points, clauses, articles, provisions, and conditions, as we also hereby approve, confirm, and ratify them, with the rights of our Royal Majesty and the Republic remaining intact. Declaring that everything together and each separately contained in the above-cited privileges should retain the power and force of due and perpetual durability. Ordering both the castle and the council office of Lwów to maintain and preserve all these same privileges of our Predecessors granted to the mentioned Tailors' Guild, and approved by US, in all and each of their provisions, and to diligently ensure that they are maintained and observed by others, and to direct all the above-mentioned to proper execution, under penalty of our displeasure and by the duty of their offices, not acting otherwise. In witness whereof, this [letter], signed by our hand, we have ordered to be strengthened with the crown seal. Given in Warsaw, on the 28th day of the month of May, in the year of our Lord 1700, and in the third year of our reign. [Signature annotation on the left:] Augustus Rex [Chancellery note on the right:] Wacław Franciszek Racięcki, Cupbearer of Rawa, Secretary of His Royal Majesty [paraph] [On the reverse:] [1] 1700. Of King Augustus the Second. Of the Tailors' Guild. [2] Lit. A. Privilege of Augustus 2. [3] 2. Confirmation of all rights and privileges of the Tailors' Guild of the city of Lwów in the year 1700. No. 13. Tailors' privilege on page 2. Of the Most Serene King Augustus the Second, under the letter K. [4] Of the Lwów tailors.

AVGVSTVS SECVNDVS DEI GRATIA REX POLONIÆ, Magnus Dux Lithvaniæ, Rufsiæ, Pruſsiæ, Maſoviæ, Samogitiæ, Kÿoviæ, Volhiniæ, Podoliæ, Podlachiæ, Smolenſciæ, Severiæ, Czer= niechoviæq[ue], necnon Hæreditari[us] Saxoniæ Dux, & Princeps Elector. VNiversis & singulis quorum interest, significamus præsentibus literis nostris. Reproductas & exhibitas nobis esse per certos Consiliarios Nostros, Lateri Nostro asſistentes, nomine & pro parte Contubernij Sartorum Civitatis nostræ Leopoliensis literas pergameneas, confirmationum Jurium, Privilegiorum, & Ordina= tionum eidem Contubernio Servientium in se continentes. Et primò quidem Ordinationis per Nobilem & Spectabilem Magistratum Leopoliensem in Anno D[omi]ni Millesimo quingentesimo vigesimo octavo factæ, deindè per Serenissimos Prædecessores Nostros, ut pote SIGISMVNDVM Primum Cracoviæ feria tertia post festum Sanctissimæ Trinita= tis Anno D[omi]ni M.D.XXXIII. SIGISMVNDVM AVGVSTVM Varsaviæ in Comitijs Regni Generalibus die undecima mensis Junij, Anno D[omi]ni M.D.LXX. STEPHA= NVM Thorunij in Conventu Regni Generali die quinta Mensis Novembris, Anno Domini M.D.LXXVI. VLADISLAVM IV. Leopoli die vicesima sexta Octobris, Anno D[omi]ni M.DCXXXIV. JOANNEM CASIMIRVM Samboriæ, die trigesima prima mensis Augusti, Anno D[omi]ni M.D.XLIX [w tekście: M.DIX.]. MICHAELEM Leopoli de data, die vigesima sexta Mensis Octobris, Anno D[omi]ni MDCLXXI, nec non p[e]r immediatū JOANNEM Tertium Javoroviæ feria tertia ante Dominicam tertiam post Pa= scha proximam Anno D[omi]ni MDCLXXII Decretum in Judicijs Assefsorialibus Cancellariæ Regni [...]onlatum Regiæ Clementiæ clementissime collatas, & conceſsas, man[i]= bus Suprascriptorum Serenissimorum Antecefsorum Nostrorum proprijs subscriptas, Sigillisq[ue] tam Majoris, quam Minoris Cancellariæ Regni pensilibus firmatas, sanas, salvas, & illæsas omniq[ue] suspitionis nota carentes. Supplicatumq[ue] Nobis est per eosdem Consiliarios nostros nomine Supra dicti Contubernij Sartorum Leopolienſium, vt eadem Ju= ra, Privilegia, Ordinationesq[ue] eorum Authoritate Nostra Regia approbare, confirmare, & ratificare dignaremur. Nos itaq[ue] AVGVSTVS REX, Supplicationi eorum uti justæ, & æquitati consonæ benignè annuentes, supraspecificata omnia Jura, Privilegia, & Ordinationes ejusdem Contubernij (quæ hîc pro insertis & expreſsis haberi volumus) in omni= bus et singulis eorum punctis, clausulis, articulis, ligamentis, conditionibus, approbandas, confirmandas, et ratificandas esse duximus, provt quidem per præsentes approbamus, confirmamus, et ratificamus; Juribus Nostris Regalibus, & Reipublicæ salvis manentibus. Declarantes omnia et singula in præallegatis Privilegijs contenta, vim et robur debitæ ac perpetuæ firmitatis obtinere debere. Mandantes tam Castrensi, quàm Consulari Leopolienſibus Officijs, ut eadem Privilegia omnia Antecessorum Nostrorum prædicto Contubernio Sartorum data, per NOS verò approbata, in omnibus et singulis suis contentis manuteneant, et observent, ab alijsque manutene= ri & observari diligenter curent, omnia præmissa debitæ executioni demandent, pro gratia nostra, Officiorumq[ue] suorum debito, secùs non facturi. In Cujus rei fi= dem præsentes Manu Nostra subscriptas Sigillo Regni communiri jussimus. Datum Varsaviæ die XXVIII Mensis Maij, Anno D[omi]ni MDCC. Regni verò Nostri Anno Tertio. [Adnotacja podpisowa po lewej:] Augustus Rex [Nota kancelaryjna po prawej:] Wenceslaus Franciscus Racięcki Pincerna Raven[sis] S[acrae] R[egiae] M[aiestatis] Secretarius [parafa] [Verso:] [1] 1700. Regis Augusti Secundi Sartorum Contubernij [2] Lit. A Privil[egium] Augusti 2 [3] 2do Confirmatio Jurium omnium & Privi= legiorum & Contubernii Sartorum Civitatis Leopolien[sis] a[nno] 1700. N[umero] 13. Privilegium Sartorum 2do fol[io] Sereniss[imi] Regis Augusti Secundi. sub Litt[era] K. [4] Leopoldien[sium] Sartorum