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By God's grace, we, Stephen, voivode and hospodar of the Moldavian land, openly make known with this letter to everyone who looks at this letter, etc., that our friends, the townspeople of Lviv, have appeared before us and brought the great privilege they have;] from our uncle, the late. p Stephen the voivode and from all our ancestors, and asked us to ease their tolls according to the tolls established for them in this very old privilege. And so we, having consulted with our lords and our council, left them with this law and decided that their merchants should trade in our land with the same freedom and freedom as before, and that the tolls they should pay on their goods should be deposited in the following manner: First of all, when we start from the place where the main toll is paid, Lviv merchants are obliged to pay at the warehouse in Suceava for cloth, for each fines ouegoż, three groszy each. And from trivial things, which include various goods, such as: Lithuanian, Krosno and German linen [literally: wise, i.e. delicate, barchat'j, open cloth, leggings, chars''), pokoczyny'j, coils'-), saffron, caps, plow irons, cutlasses, swords and similar trifles, which include to the stall - that they should pay three cents per fine for washing in Seret, and when they buy Tatar or overseas goods 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.ski goods in our other cities, they pay two groszy per fine wherever they buy them, and at the main toll in Suceava, always three groszy per fine, and they can sell the goods to whomever they want. And whoever goes to Lviv pays one penny per cattle at the main toll in Suceava, one penny per ten pigs, etc. And whoever goes to Tatar land pays one ruble of silver per twelve halters of weight in Suceava, 30 groszy in Iasi, 30 groszy in Łapuszne, and half a ruble of silver in Białystok, etc. And whoever does not go to Białogard should pay the Białogard toll in Łapuszne. And in Tygin, as they paid the toll before, they are obliged to pay it now according to the same custom, etc. And it is allowed to export cloth to Hungary, to the Basarabians, to Kili and to the Turks.
■without obstacles etc. And whoever transports cloth to Bystrzyca and to Hungary in general, pays three cents of the fine in Suceava, one and a half cents of the fine in Baua, and one and a half cents of the fine in Moldavita, etc. And when transporting, you pay four groszy for each cart, whether German or Armenian; only if they are transported by ferry '^). However, when there is ice on the river or you can cross a ford, you won't pay a penny for transport, etc. Moreover, we allowed the inhabitants of Lviv to maintain their own house in Suceava according to merchant custom, with the condition, however, that they should not establish an inn, a butcher's shop, or a brewery in that house. However, if the person who will manage the house still wishes to maintain the above-mentioned things, let him make arrangements for them with the city. And we did this primarily for the merchants of Lviv, as for the subjects of our hospodar and the Polish king, as well as for merchants from all the Russian and Podolia lands. And all that we have specified above, we and our successors, vow to keep them eternally and fulfill without any guile or cunning for ever and ever, and never to violate them, in our honor and faith, according to St. Christian custom. And the witnesses of this were: our metropolitan and the royal council, Messrs. Chałecki and Bagowski, who at that time were here on a mission from our lord and king, and our lords and the Moldavian council, namely: Mr. Duma Brajewicz, Mr. Stanczu, Mr. Włajkuł, Mr. Gojan Dvorqik, Mr. Chetko Szczybor, Mr. Koste Danowicz, Mr. Tomasz Kinde, Mr. Mik Kral, Mr. Piotr Ponicz, Mr. Alb, Mr. Łazia, Mr. Izajasz Niemiecki, Mr. Domokusz, Mr. Koźmica, Mr. Buchta, Mr. Fetion, Mr. Sakisz spatar-'*), Mr. Juga wistyarnik '^), Mr. Kraśnisz postelnik, Mr. Tador czarznik, Mr. us, the names are: Mr. Ivllment, Mr. Michael, Mr. Peter and Mr. Nimant, the city writer. And in further confirmation of all that has been written above, we ordered our faithful lord logotheto Dobruł to issue this letter and attach our seal to it. Szczeful wrote in Suceava, in the summer of July 6968, on the 3rd day.
') Prince Stephen of Moldavia, surnamed the Great (Stefan cel Marę), reigned according to Latopis of the Moldavian Land, vol. I. 117-145 (see, also Archiva istoric. Hażdeua vol. III. 6-9) from April 12, 1457 to July 2, 1504, and according to Engel IV. 2.132, from 1458 to 1504.
^) It is worth considering that Prince Szczepan, when introducing the toll in Tygin, did not abolish the toll established in Łopuszno, as it should have been expected.
^) Boifprapc ahbokckih - the word Boyprapii, also Bp-krapii, of course comes from the German Biirger (Burg) and means the same as a townsman; in Multany, and then in Moldova (Ob. Miron Kostyna 1. c. pag. 274), however, it was used also in the sense of the Latin scabinus (juror), but it was written and pronounced, in the latter case, not KO^prapTi, but npiirap^K iz pyrgar.
*) Hazhdeu, in Archiva istor. II. 172, printed the rtM incorrectly and made the following mistakes in the edition he prepared (Archiva istoric. U. 171-176); on line 4 it printed a hct, aAHBO (the latter is repeated constantly) instead of ahct^k], a ahko; in 5. rAf >Kf zam. rji,t «[ii]; in 20. KapKari^ resident Kap)faT8; in 22. i^hhobhh płt (Mhchh korshi^h
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