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Marcin Anczewski reproaches the Lviv councilors for their lack of gratitude and failure to pay the sums due to him for the efforts and expenses incurred for the good of the city. He informs them that he has filed a lawsuit against the magistrate and the commoners in the royal court and urges them to settle the debt amicably before the hearing date.

King Alexander Jagiellon grants the mayor, council, and the city of Lviv the right to collect a perpetual bridge toll of one Polish groschen from every loaded wagon entering the city. The townspeople are obliged to spend the entire income obtained on the repair of surrounding public roads and city fortifications.

King Sigismund I the Old grants to Stanisław of Chodecz, Marshal of the Kingdom of Poland, shares in the villages of Żydatycze and Maleczkowice, confiscated from the Lviv canons for failing to fulfill the duty of military service against the Voivode of Wallachia. The grant serves as a reward for the Marshal's military merits demonstrated during that same expedition.

King Sigismund I grants the cathedral chapter in Lviv permission to purchase, under the right of 'wyderkauf' (redeemable rent), an annual rent worth up to four hundred marks from landed or urban estates to support the clergy. The property acquired in this manner is perpetually exempted from the obligation of all military expeditions.

King Sigismund I settles a dispute between the city council of Lwów and the Starosta Stanisław of Chodecz, prohibiting the operation of taverns in the suburbs and limiting the permitted number of craftsmen in the Kraków Suburb to two tailors, two shoemakers, two blacksmiths, and tanners.

King Sigismund I grants permission to Master Michael, notary of Lviv, to purchase a third part of the Baker's Mill in the Lviv suburb for the sum of fifty marks. He records this amount for him, along with the right to collect one-third of the mill's income, with the obligation to bear one-third of the repair costs.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms the privilege of King Casimir IV Jagiellon from 1472, which established two annual fairs in Lwów for the feasts of the Holy Trinity and St. Agnes. The document regulates detailed trade rights, the staple right, customs duties, grazing of merchant cattle, and judicial jurisdiction over merchants.

King Sigismund I, at the request of the Archbishop of Lviv, Bernard Wilczek, confirms the 1422 decree of King Władysław Jagiełło regulating the amount of annual fees for the archiepiscopal table, paid on Saint Martin's Day by peasants and settlers under German law in the Archdiocese of Lviv. The document sets a fixed rate of six broad groschen per hide, with the exception of Lviv settlers who pay one wiardunek each.

King Sigismund I the Old allocates the first vacant mansionary at St. Catherine's Church in the Lower Castle of Lviv for the endowment of a German preacher, whose candidacy is to be presented by the city councilors to the King for presentation to the Archbishop of Lviv. The document mandates that the preacher maintain the traditional duty of performing choir service either personally or through a deputy.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the General Sejm in Piotrków, settles a dispute between the burghers of Lviv and the Jews, introducing an ordinance limiting the commercial activities of Lviv and suburban Jews. The document prohibits them, among other things, from home-based and itinerant trade, forbids the sale of spices and silk, and strictly regulates the trade in cloth, wax, hides, and oxen.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms the settlement ruling of a royal commission regulating the rates and collection principles for customs, bridge tolls, causeway tolls, and market fees on the route from Lviv to Wallachia. The privilege protects Lviv burghers and merchants from arbitrary and burdensome charges by defining tariffs for specific localities in Ruthenia and Podolia.

King Sigismund I ratifies and approves the sale of an annual redeemable rent, made without prior royal consent by the Lviv sub-starosta Zygmunt Bartoszewski on the third part of the Lviv mill to the vicars of the Lviv Cathedral for one hundred marks. This rent is placed under the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical court, with the monarch's rights to the mill remaining intact.

King Sigismund I resolves a dispute between the authorities and the commonalty of the city of Lwów and the heir of the village of Zboiska, Piotr Odnowski, prohibiting the collection of causeway tolls from peasants transporting goods to the Lwów market. The owner of Zboiska retains the right to collect causeway duties from carters and other travelers in accordance with his privileges.

King Sigismund I the Old regulates the mutual jurisdictional relations between the municipal court in Lwów and the judiciary of the Armenian community, including the admissibility of witnesses of different denominations, the jurisdiction over real estate and criminal offenses, and the procedure for arrests. In all other respects, the monarch confirms the existing privileges of both parties.

King Sigismund I transfers the villages of Zubrza and Sichów, belonging to Lwów, from land law to Magdeburg law, subordinating them to the authority of the mayor and city council. He exempts the inhabitants and councilors from the jurisdiction of land and castle officials and from all duties and military expeditions, obliging them only to pay the municipal tax (szos) together with Lwów.

King Sigismund I authorizes the authorities of Lviv to collect a fee of half a grosz from every wagon of refugees seeking shelter in the city from enemy invasions. The funds obtained are to cover the costs of cleaning the city of mud and filth and repairing the city walls, ramparts, and moats.

King Sigismund I the Old approves the organization and customs of Lviv guilds and removes Lviv masters, journeymen, and apprentices from the authority of Kraków guild masters. He permits Lviv craftsmen to freely train apprentices and confer master titles, guaranteeing them full rights throughout the Kingdom, and entrusts jurisdiction over them to guild elders with the right of appeal to the Lviv city council.

King Sigismund I grants the Lviv city councilors, guardians of the Holy Spirit Hospital, permission to sell the village of Malechów, which is prone to disputes, and to transfer it under land law. The proceeds from the sale are to be used for the purchase of other properties or rents for the poor, covered by ecclesiastical immunity.

King Sigismund I the Old approves and grants the city of Lviv its existing coat of arms depicting a gate with three towers and a standing lion. Furthermore, the monarch grants the municipal authorities the honorable privilege of sealing all documents and letters with red wax.

King Sigismund I the Old grants for life to Lviv councilor Michael and his children, Michael and Anna, all income from a bolter installed in the Piekarski mill in Lviv. Previously, the monarch had ensured them lifetime profits from the third measure of the same mill.

King Sigismund I establishes the rules for the annual submission of accounts of municipal revenues by the incumbent Lviv councilors before former councilors, four assessors, and six representatives of the commonalty. He simultaneously orders all participants of the audit to keep the obtained information strictly confidential under an oath of allegiance to the King.

King Sigismund I the Old guarantees the prelates and canons of the Metropolitan Chapter in Lviv the inviolable possession of one-third of the royal mill in the Halych Suburb for a period of 15 years. The monarch pledges that neither he, nor his successors, nor anyone else will redeem the said mill during this time.

King Sigismund I the Old settles a dispute between the burghers of Lviv and the Starosta of Lviv, Stanisław of Chodecz, concerning the collection of customs and market duties on salted fish. He establishes a procedure for merchants to take an oath and confirms the right of Lviv burghers to purchase fish in Busk duty-free.

King Sigismund I cancels his previous trade privilege granted to the Jews of the Lviv suburbs and confirms the exclusive right of the Lviv burghers to trade within the city, prohibiting the suburban residents from doing so. To allow for the liquidation of goods and the repayment of debts, the monarch grants the suburban Jews a two-year transition period with limited trading rights.

King Sigismund I the Old forbids merchants traveling between Turkey and Wallachia and Lithuania and Muscovy from bypassing the Lwów staple right and customs duties by traveling through Kamieniec and side roads. He orders the starostas and municipal authorities of Ruthenia and Podolia to arrest merchants violating the ban without exception and to provide assistance to the envoys of the city of Lwów.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms the resolution of the municipal authorities of Lviv, adopted after a recent fire, prohibiting the construction of houses with arcades in the city and orders all property owners to comply with the new building regulations.

King Sigismund I the Old establishes a free Saturday meat market, known as 'sochaczki', for a period of twenty years in Lviv, which is rebuilding after a fire. During this time, he allows all residents and visitors to freely sell and butcher meat, suspending the monopoly of the local butchers' guild, which is also granted a tax exemption.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the request of the Lviv city authorities, moves the annual fair from the Feast of the Holy Trinity to the Feast of Saint Margaret, exempting arriving merchants from customs duties. At the same time, he confirms the holding of the fair on the Feast of Saint Agnes, maintaining the existing obligation to pay customs duties.

King Sigismund I approves the 1528 decree of the mayor and councilors of Lviv, which awarded disputed meadows formed on drained ponds in Zamarstynów to Marcin Schöngreger, guardian of the widow and children of the late Bernard Tyczka. The inhabitants of the village of Zamarstynów were ordered to maintain perpetual silence on this matter.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the request of the Lviv Cathedral Chapter, confirms a 1463 document by royal commissioners delimiting the chapter village of Wierzbiąż and the royal villages of Rożana and Rzeczyczów. The confirmation grants the Chapter the disputed lands, forests, thickets, and revenues according to the established boundary mounds.

King Sigismund I confirms to the chapters of the Lviv Cathedral a document from the commissioners of King Casimir Jagiellon dated 1474. This act established the detailed course of the boundaries and the placement of boundary mounds between the capitular village of Wierbiż and the royal villages of Drohowyże and Uście.

King Sigismund I the Old consolidates previous debt records on the royal village of Honiatycze into a single sum of 220 marks and pledges it to the Metropolitan Chapter in Lviv. The Chapter is to hold and use the village as a pledge until the debt is fully repaid by the monarch or his successors.

King Sigismund I transfers the village of Zhydatychi, belonging to the metropolitan chapter in Lviv, from land law to ecclesiastical law. At the same time, he exempts this property from the obligation of military expeditions, tax levies, and all other burdens of secular law.

King Sigismund I approves the purchase of a plot in Lviv made by the Lviv Metropolitan Chapter from Father Antoni Kłopot. The monarch grants the acquired property ecclesiastical immunity and exempts it from all taxes and secular burdens.

King Sigismund I confirms the privilege of King Casimir IV Jagiellon from 1456, securing quarterly payments for the Archbishop and Chapter of Lviv from the Lviv and Gródek customs duties and the Drohobych salt mines. He orders the customs collectors and salt mine officials to make timely payments under penalty of sanctions and enforcement by the Starosta of Lviv.

King Sigismund I grants the Lviv sub-judge Jan Dzieduszycki and his successors the right to collect specific bridge tolls at seventeen crossings within the estates of Dzieduszyce and Młynice. In exchange for the privilege of collecting tolls, the owners are obligated to permanently maintain and repair the roads and bridges.

King Sigismund I the Old cancels a former record of King Władysław for one hundred marks and grants Dobrogost Pełka forty marks, which are to be paid to him by the tenant of the royal village of Kozłów, Maciej, the castellan (wojski) of Żydaczów. The paid sum of forty marks is simultaneously added to the pledge sums secured for Maciej on the same village.

King Sigismund I the Old grants the authorities and citizens of Lwów the right to collect a new bridge toll of two denarii for every ox driven for sale, exempting Lwów citizens from this fee. The income obtained is to be used for the permanent maintenance and repair of bridges around the city to ensure the safe passage of merchants and travelers.

King Sigismund I the Old, at the request of the Lviv burghers, approves the 1506 verdict of King Alexander Jagiellon. He confirms the exemption of the Lviv citizens from the Lublin customs duty and prohibits Lublin customs officers from collecting it.

King Sigismund I settles a dispute between the customs lessee Andrzej of Tęczyn and the Lviv burghers, allowing Lviv merchants to travel through Kraków and Sandomierz to Lublin and beyond, bypassing the customs chambers in Bełz, Chełm, and Hrubieszów, while ordering them to return via these routes if they abandon their further journey. At the same time, he suspends Lviv's customs exemption in these three chambers solely for the duration of the lease of the Tęczyński family's estates, while confirming the general customs privilege of King Alexander.

King Sigismund I the Old permits the incorporation of the abandoned parish church in Semenivka, along with all its revenues and appurtenances, into the church in Shchyrets to improve the endowment of the local rector. The monarch simultaneously stipulates the preservation of pastoral care and religious services in Semenivka in accordance with the regulations of the local ordinary.

King Sigismund I the Old approves the dowry and jointure settlement in the amount of 200 florins, made by the late Hiob Sokolnicki for his wife Anna of Czernin on half of his own and royal estates. The document guarantees the widow and her offspring peaceful possession of the aforementioned royal estates until the secured sums are fully repaid.

King Sigismund I the Old re-establishes the tailors' guild in Lviv, prohibiting the practice of this craft in the city and suburbs by craftsmen outside the brotherhood. Only two castle tailors appointed by the Lviv starosta were exempted from the guild obligation.

King Sigismund I rules that the voluntary payment of the Kołomyja customs duty by the burghers of Lwów to the Voivode Otto of Chodecz is temporary and does not infringe upon their previous exemption from this fee. After the death of Otto or his resignation from the lease of Kołomyja, no subsequent tenant has the right to demand the aforementioned duty from the citizens of Lwów.

King Sigismund I the Old grants the Metropolitan Chapter in Lviv permission to appoint a legitimate procurator to represent it and its subjects before all secular courts of the Kingdom of Poland. The monarch ensures the perpetual validity of all legal actions taken by this proxy.

King Sigismund I the Old confirms the 1533 letter of the royal commissioners establishing the detailed delimitation of the village of Wierbiąż, belonging to the Lviv Chapter, from the royal estates of Demnia, Drohowyże, and Uście, leased by Paweł Tarło. The document describes the course of the boundary marked by 32 mounds and signs on trees and adjudicates to the Chapter the rights to the waters of the Zubrza, Szczerzec, and Dniester rivers.

King Sigismund I the Old orders the municipal authorities of Lviv that files of appeal cases should not be handed over to the parties, but delivered to the royal court exclusively by a special court messenger. The cost of the expedition of the files is to be covered by the appealing party, in accordance with the ancient custom of Magdeburg law.

King Sigismund I resolves a jurisdictional dispute between the Lviv city council and the starosta Stanisław Odrowąż, confirming the jurisdiction of Magdeburg law over all visitors and merchants staying in the city, in the suburbs, and under the High Castle. The judicial powers of the starosta were limited exclusively to cases of homicide and housebreaking committed within the castle jurisdiction.

King Sigismund I the Old orders royal and municipal officials to assist Lviv burghers in detaining merchants who bypass the Lviv staple right. He prohibits the illegal transport of oxen, wax, and other goods from Ruthenia and Podolia, bypassing Lviv and the due customs duties, under penalty of financial sanctions.

King Sigismund I grants the burghers of Lwów the perpetual right to retail burnt wine (spirits) within the city and its suburbs, and to collect fees for this purpose for the city's needs. All other estates and inhabitants are prohibited from selling vodka without the permission of the city council, under penalty of confiscation of the liquor.