lawsuits that were assigned to those years that have not been brought are to be granted each year according to the lawsuit, without bringing any other lawsuits. 7. And since the judge of Lviv has died, then the castellan of Lviv is obliged to hold an election for the judge in Lviv a week before the Holy Cross, and the praesens is to be alone, and after the election of the judge, the citizens of the Lviv land are to vote immediately on the time when the Lviv years are to be judged, and at the latest on two Sundays after the assembly of the Holy Cross. when gentlemen, citizens of the Lviv land also need this judgment of the year in Lviv, also in other districts in the Lviv land. And the lawsuits are to be written under the same title as those previously sued, with the same description of the lawsuits filed as taking place in Przeworsk and Halych. 8. Which our resolution we promise in all its articles to enforce firmly with our honest, chivalrous words. And whoever is against it and wants to destroy it or want to overthrow it, then we should consider such a person to be a bad and evil person, an opponent of our homeland. We have instructed the undersigned to sign and seal everything and return it to the city. It happened in Vishny at the local council on Tuesday, the day after the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, the year of God millesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo quinto. Archiepiscopus leopoliensis manu sua propria subseripsit. Bieyko's Przemyśl carpenter with his own hand. Walenty Orzechowski, judge of Przemyśl, with his own hand. Wiktorzyn Kowalski subslarości Przemyśl subseripsit. Krysztof Kowynniczki with his hand. Jan Kowinnicki with his own hand, subseripsit. Baltazar Ozga yicecapitaneus castrensis leopoliensis manu prop"ia significat. Stanislaus Zochowski notarius C£istrensis leopoliensis m. p.
Castr. Le^pol. Rei. 336 p. 316—318. Castr. P,em. T. 286 p. 310-311. Castr. Hal. 93 p. 439—440.
in Wlsnl, September 14, 1575. Łftadam of the Wiszno sejmik regarding the new general voivodeship courts.
1. We, the councils and the knights of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, announce to all those who should know that we, in order to comply with the common and unanimous decision of our entire Ruthenian Voivodeship in Lviv, have gathered on the Day of the Holy Cross in Wysno to decide and improve the courts (ultimae instantiae, as the recession or our Lviv decision is discussed in more detail there), which, as it behooves us to do, There was no other reason that prevented us from doing so, except the absence of many of our brothers and sisters, and that was the fear of the enemy in Vishna for the time being, which we made a further decision at home, however, having made sure that we agreed with our sincere statement that we stand firmly in the form of the courts agreed upon by us, under the obligations and conditions described in greater detail there. and the improvement there. 2. And so that these judgments are not devastated by the fullness of the Day of the Holy Cross, we convene a sejmik after the meeting of the Warsaw convocation, which is composed ad terreciam diem Octobris, from which, when we hear about the convocation of the election, we commission it and give the power to the Lord of Lviv, as the voivode who holds the seat, to submit the sejmik to us he deigned in Wisnia, so after saving some time we could get down to commode*). In which local council and courts will we decide and other necessary things before the election? 3. And so that there will be no further delay in the decision of justice, we promise with chivalrous words that
*) i.e. September 28.») Of April 11th N 16. •) This assembly was convened by castellan Iw. Stanisław Herburt universal dated in Podhajcacla on October 16 to October 26 of the same year. C.Hal. 93 p. 450.