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Pope Boniface IX instructs the Bishop of Przemyśl to enforce sanctions and restrain Archbishop Bernard of Halicz from unlawfully harassing the authorities and residents of Lwów in a property dispute. He also authorizes the lifting of an illegal interdict and the absolution of the citizens of Lwów from ecclesiastical penalties imposed by the Archbishop.

The Archbishop of Lviv, Jan Rzeszowski, confirms the foundation privilege of the heir of Delijów, Jan Kola, re-establishing the local parish church. The document specifies in detail the grants of land, fish ponds, tithes, as well as duties and fees for the parish priest and the parish.

Jan of Czyżów, Lieutenant of the Kingdom of Poland, certifies that Jan of Zubrza appointed Mikołaj of Gołogóry as the guardian of his minor sons and manager of all his property until they reach the age of majority.

King Casimir IV Jagiellon settles a dispute between the councilors of Lviv and the townspeople of Halych, Kolomyia, and Stryi, ordering the latter to strictly observe the Lviv general staple right and prohibiting them from bypassing Lviv on their way to other cities. The document confirms the right of Lviv citizens to confiscate the goods of merchants violating the transit obligation and notes the submission to this law by the townspeople of Kamianets-Podilskyi.

Prokop of Gwoździec, cup-bearer of Halych, founds and endows a church dedicated to the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist, and the Finding of the Holy Cross in the town of Ostapkowce. He grants the church and its parish priest land, meadows, forests, fishing and logging rights, as well as tithes and fees from the inhabitants of Ostapkowce and Gwoździec.

King Sigismund I resolves a dispute between the lessees of the Sniatyn customs and the Lviv city council, confirming documents from 1444 by Jan of Czyżów and Michał Mużyło of Buczacz, which abolished unlawful customs duties in Kolomyia and established fair customs rates in Sniatyn.

Lviv Archbishop Bernard Wilczek certifies an agreement between the Lviv Cathedral Chapter and Provost Stanisław Wilczek regarding the granting of the first place to him for life in the church, chapter, and at the table as a canon. The agreement reserves the rights of future successors to the Lviv provostry to pursue their own claims.

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.

The Lviv land judge and sub-judge certify an entry from the castle court books of 1510 regarding the redemption of rights to the royal village of Czerkasy by the Lviv Metropolitan Chapter from Dmytro and Onyszko for the sum of 200 grzywnas. The act also confirms the renunciation of claims by the previous holders and the legal intromission of the Chapter into the possession of these goods performed by a court bailiff.

King Sigismund I the Old, after reviewing a dispute with the Starosta of Kolomyia, Mikołaj Sieniawski, confirms the exemption from customs duties in Kolomyia granted to Lviv burghers and merchants for the transport of their own goods. At the same time, he stipulates under penalty that it is forbidden to transport goods belonging to third parties under the pretext of this privilege.

King Sigismund III Vasa confirms to the Mikulicz brothers, burghers of Halych, the rights to a share of a mill on the Lipa River belonging to the Halych starosta district, received by virtue of a previous grant from the late Voivode Stanisław Włodek.

Lviv Archbishop Wacław Hieronim Sierakowski maintains the right of canons to choose chapter estates, while ordering that one-third of the income—and half of the income from the Uniatycze, Pikulowice, and Żydatycze estates—be contributed to the common chapter fund. At the same time, he exempts poorer benefices from this obligation and grants the chapter a remission of all accumulated arrears.