By the grace of God, we, Stephen, voivode and hospodar of the land of Moldavia, are aware with this letter of our goodness to everyone who looks at it or hears it while reading it, and to anyone who ever needs it, that we vow and have vowed, and also that we give and have given our letter of safe conduct, righteous, Christian (as it is everywhere in the whole world, be it to Mr. Mayor and all gentlemen and they would pay a toll for their goods and for all the merchants in our land with all kinds of trades and goods, and buy or sell them without any difficulties or harm on our part -). And when you come to us again and bring with you the letter of privilege that you have from our ancestors, or the one that we sent to you and wrote to you from ourselves, we are ready to consider it properly and to fulfill everything to you according to the privilege that we have given and written to you. We promise to keep and fulfill all that we have detailed above to you in accordance with this letter of ours, with our honor and Christian faith, and away from all deceit and cunning. And for this there is the faith of My Majesty and the faith of our boyars, both great and small. And for the greater force of all that has been written above, we ordered this letter to be issued and our seal to be attached to it. Written in Iasi, in the year 6971, in the month of January, on the 25th day.
') This document is written on thick parchment, 21V" centimeters high and 37 centimeters wide; the form of the letters Skoropis; a smaller, state seal, with the following inscription around it: IKjMflTh GTOOHHH BOBGOAW. On the reverse side of the parchment, in the same hand as the document, is written: r/XfHT['K] AHKOKMaHCiiM['K].
-) On July 3, 1460; this document is printed under No. *VIII.
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Prince Bohdan of Moldavia informs the mayor and all councilors of Lviv that the money owed to the Moldavian treasury by a certain Antoni, or his guarantor Kosnar, was forcibly collected from a certain Bartosz, son of Mr. Marcin from Lviv, and asks the Lviv city hall. he wanted to make sure that the said Bartosz would not suffer any damage as a result of this.
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Bohdan, voivode and, by God's grace, hospodar of the land of Moldavia, we are writing to the mayor and to all the councilors and elders of the city of Lviv, our dear friends, and let you know, Your Majesties, that even when Mr. Izaak was the customs officer of Suceava, a certain Kosnar, a burgher from Lviv, gave him a portion in exchange for a certain Antoni, also a burgher from Lviv, and he was obliged to pay for it, if necessary, the sum of 87 Hungarian zlotys, with the further reservation that, depending on the rate of tolls, each Hungarian zloty was to include 57 Moldavian aspers *). And so, in confidence in this, Mr. Isaac asked you to extract the money himself first through our [hospodar's] letters; but, Gentlemen, you have not done him any justice in this respect. So he was an ambassador from us to the king, and he brought you a letter from him with the same order as from you; but even then you did not deign to satisfy his grievances and pay him. No wonder, then, that we finally ordered and authorized Mr. Isaac, who had meanwhile become a logotheto, to collect this money from whomever he could. And this time he caught a certain Bartosz, the son of Mr. Marcin from Lviv, and took from him the above-mentioned 87 Hungarian zlotys, but also 57 Moldovan aspers for each, depending on the rate they pay on tolls. Therefore, gentlemen, please do justice to your townsman Bartosz, the son of Mr. Marcin from Lviv, and see to it that he receives remuneration from this Kosnar, and that he does not suffer any harm because of it. Because you, gentlemen, know very well that this Kosnar was our debtor, because Mr. Isaac came to you three times with our letters and his own, but still he did not receive any justice from you or any payment. This letter was written in Charłowo, on the 15th day of January.
•) Prince Bohdan, surnamed the Blind, (in Romanian: Bogdan cel Orbii) reigned according to Latopis of the Moldavian land, vol. I. pag. 146— G3, and the same according to Engel IV. 2. 157, 399, from July 1504 to April 1517.
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