The villages mentioned in the document were bequeathed on June 22, 1457, by Yan Khodorovskyi of Berezdivtsi to the Lviv hospital (AGZ V, no. CLIII). Luchany is a village in the Bibrka county, which still bears the same name today. The other two have changed their names. The village named Nalturzany alias Piotrowa Hora in the above document was called Mohylyshche in 1457, and today it is called Nahorynie and is also located in the Bibrka county. The third locality, named Bolszoic in the above document and in 1457, is today's town of Bilshivtsi. (Compare Rasp, *Beschreibung der Stiftungen des Bürgerspitals St. Lazar* [Description of the Foundations of the Citizens' Hospital of St. Lazarus], pp. 7 and 8). Let us take a closer look at this exchange to determine whether the Lviv councilors made a favorable or unfavorable deal for the hospital. They exchanged three villages for one. Luchany now has (i.e., according to the 1870 census) 237 inhabitants and has an area of arable land in Lower Austrian morgs of 220 of larger property, 299 of smaller property; meadows and gardens 295 of larger property, 45 of smaller property; pastures 8 of larger property, 23 of smaller property. Nahorynie, according to the 1870 census, has 167 inhabitants, and the area of the village according to Rasp is 234 morgs (I do not possess more precise data, because the list of lands for this village was omitted in Orzhekhovskyi's index). Bilshivtsi is today a town with a population of 2362 inhabitants, arable land 752 morgs of larger property, 942 morgs of smaller property; meadows and gardens 560 morgs of larger property, 260 morgs of smaller property; pastures 35 morgs of larger property, 72 morgs of smaller property; forests 30 morgs of larger property. — Malekhiv has 507 inhabitants, arable land 169 morgs of larger property, 479 morgs of smaller property; meadows and gardens 74 morgs of larger property, 227 morgs of smaller property; pastures 6 morgs of larger property, 65 morgs of smaller property; forests 54 morgs of larger property. If someone were to make such an exchange today, exchanging three localities with 2766 inhabitants and 3775 morgs of land for a village with 507 inhabitants and 1074 morgs of land, they would make a deal beneath all criticism. Of course, we cannot judge this matter entirely from this standpoint, because in 1489 these relations must have appeared quite differently: Bilshivtsi was not yet a town then but a village, and the advantage of the proximity of Malekhiv, located very close to Lviv, certainly meant even more then than today. In any case, however, we can say that the Lviv councilors made an unfavorable deal for the hospital here.
') Compare no. LIV., LXXVUI and LXXXII.
XCIII.
in Krakow on April 16, 1489
Casimir Jagiellończyk frees the city of Lviv from the fee for one year any taxes.
Kazimirus Dei gracia Rex Polonie, magnus dax Lythwani, Russie Prussieque dominus et heres etc. siguificamus tenore presencium, quibus expedit, universis, quod queniadmodum antea famosis preconsuli et consulibus Leopoliensibus pro subsistencia ad labores fossatarimi et aliarum niunicicnuni, per eos pro tutamento civitatis circum civitatem ipsam Leopolieiisem inceptarum, libertatem per certos annos in literis nostris, tunc ipsis concessis, descriptos coucessimus, illo modo quo perstringunt litere nostre super libertate ipsa date, sic '^ hactenus quoque ex eis respectibus, ex quibus annis superioribus ipsos a solucioue exaccionum nostrarum liberaveramus, videlicet ut liberius sufficienciusque communicioui ciyitatis inteudere fossatasque et opera alia per eos incepta determinare valeant, libertatem uuius auni alias pro una vice post expiracionem iam dictarum libertatum ipsis coii' cessarum, ab omnibus et singulis contribucionibus, daciis, exaccionibus et quibusvis solucionibus, tam pro nostra, quam Reipublice necessitatibus laudatis atque constitutis, laudandisque et coustitueudis, quibuscunque appellentur uominibus, dandam et concedendam duximus graciose darausque et concedimus presentibus. Quo circa vobis omnibus et singulis exactoribus et quibusvis officialibus nostris presentibus requirendo maudamus, omnino habere voleutes, quatenus cives ipsos circa presentera libertatem uostram, ad alias priores libertates, quibus derogare nolumus, datam, conservare debeatis, uichil exaccionum solucionumque ipsarum nostrarum ex ipsis exigere ausuri, usque quo vices ipse seu anni libertatum ipsis expiraverint integre. Et aliter facere non ausuri pro gracia nostra. Harum quibus sigilluni ijostrum est subappensura testimonio literarum. Datum Cracouie feria quinta post dominicam Palmarum anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo octogesimo nono.
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