by the grace of God, we Peter, voivode and hospodar of the land of Moldavia, make known with this letter of ours -) to every good person who will ever need it, that we vow and have vowed, as we give and have given this privilege to our friends, all merchants of the city of Lviv, as well as merchants of all other cities of our hospodar and His Majesty the King, and to all good people in general. And we are sending them this safe and righteous letter of ours, so that, in accordance with what is happening all over the world, they will be allowed to come freely and safely to our land with all their goods, to sell and buy, and so that when they pay the legal toll, they will not suffer any harm or harm from us, our boyars, or our customs officers. And when they come to us again, we are ready to issue them fresh letters according to the privileges they have from our brothers, Stephen and Piotr, the voivode ■*), and according to the same custom as the others. And everything that has been written above, we vow to them on our soul and faith, together with our metropolitan and our lords, we vow to keep and fulfill according to our letter, with our honor and Christian faith and away from any intrigues and plots. For this there is the guarantee of My Majesty, the above-mentioned Peter, the voivode, and the guarantee of all our boyars, both great and small. And for even greater confirmation of everything that has been written, we also ordered our seal ^) to be affixed to this letter of ours. Written in Suceava in the summer of 6064, January 15.
') Prince Peter, supposedly the natural son of Alexander the Good, ruled the land of Moldova according to the Latopis. vol. I. 116 - 117. from October 16, 1454 to April 1457; according to Engel, Gesch. d. ungr. Reiches u. s. Nebenl. IV. 2. 130, from 1456-1458.
") This document is written on parchment 21V" centimeter high and 34 cm wide; the writing is very small and dense, the ink color is blue.
3) The privilege of voivode Szczepan mentioned here is printed in this edition under No. *IV.
*) The voivode Peter referred to here cannot be any other than the one who, according to the Latopis, belongs to the land of Moldova. vol. I. 111-112 reigned in 6957 and is known to chroniclers as the one who lost the town of Kilig(?) to the Hungarians; his privilege is currently not in the Lviv archives.
*) This seal is (as usual in safe conduct letters) much smaller than the seals described in the document under No. *II and *IV.; all other marks, however, remain the same; the inscription surrounding the lierbo shield contains the following words: ll6MflTIi n6TPfl BO- 6B0AU.
VII.
Peter, Prince of Moldavia, grants merchants of Lviv, as well as merchants of Ruthenian and Podolia land, the same commercial rights and freedoms as his predecessors, but defines them a little more precisely (namely as regards the so-called merchant goods) and decides that the toll that previously existed in Tygin is to be paid in Lyapushne from now on.