Part 14

By the grace of God, we, Peter, the voivode and hospodar of the Moldavian land, make this letter of ours openly known to everyone who looks at or hears this letter while reading it, and wherever anyone needs it, that our friends, the townspeople of Lviv, stood before us and brought the great privilege that they have from our father, Alexander the voivode, and asked us to ease their tolls according to how were established for them in this very old privilege. And so we, having consulted with our lords and with our advice, left them in this law and decided that their merchants should trade [literally: walk] in our land with the same freedom as before, and the tolls that they should pay on their goods should be paid in the following manner: First of all, when we start from the place where the main toll is paid, Lviv merchants in the warehouse in Suceava are obliged to pay from cloth, for each fine, three groszy. And for small items, which include various goods, such as: linen, velvets, unfinished cloth, knives, trousers, scythes, belts and similar trifles, which are called small items, they must also pay three cents per fine for washing in Seret. And when they buy Tatar goods [vol. Turkish] in Suceava, namely: silk, pepper, kamcha, tebenki, incense, Greek acid, or ginger, then they should pay there [vol. j. at the main toll in Suceava] also three groszy from the fine. And when they buy Tatar goods in our other cities, they pay two groszy per fine where they buy them, and at the main toll in Suceava they always pay three groszy per fine, and they can sell it to anyone they want. As for Lithuanian and German linen, it is considered a terrible thing, and Lviv merchants pay for it in Seret, three groszy per gi-zywna. And whoever goes to Lviv pays at the main washing station in Suceava one grosz for a head of cattle, one grosz for ten pigs, one grosz for ten sheep, six grosze for each mare, six groszy for each horse, one grosz for each hundred whitetails, ten groszy for each hundred fox skins, four groszy for one hundred gray sheep skins, two groszy for each hundred lamb skins, one penny for each hundred cattle skins - a hundred pennies; and this is the Suceava toll. And whoever goes to Tatar [Turkish] land pays one ruble of silver per twelve halters of weight in Suceava, thirty groszy in Iasi, thirty groszy in Łapushne, and half a ruble of silver in Białystok. Anyone who does not go to Białystok will be liable to the Białystok toll [vol. j. he had to pay the same amount in Łapuszne as he had to pay in Białystok. And from now on no toll is paid in Tygin. And the guards are given twelve groszy for each cart. And whoever wants to drive cattle to the Tatars [Turks] pays four groszy for each head of cattle at the main toll in Suceava, two groszy in Iasi and two groszy in Łapuszne; and from hundred sheep in Suceava sixty groszy, in Iasi thirty groszy and in Łapuszne thirty groszy. As for the toll that was previously in Tygin, we decreed that no penny should be paid there from now on, but that the toll would henceforth be in Łapuszne. And this is a particular toll imposed on those who go to the Tartars. And the Lviv merchants should dispose of the cloth at the warehouse in Suceava, because in other cities under our control they do not have the right to put it up for sale anyway. But with the money obtained from this sale, they are allowed to trade in all our Moldavian cities and buy whatever they like. And they are allowed to export cloth to Hungary and the Basarabians without any hindrance on our part. However, whoever transports his cloth to Basaraby must pay three groszy at the main toll in Suceava, and two groszy at the border in Bąków. And for this. what will he bring?