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Part 15

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*) Abh c-k e.iWS tlAHrtaaa sanrtara wrf-k] Toro Kocnap-k - proper name KocHapWirKosnar was translated in the same Archive also not quite correctly using Romanian. cotcariur: in Polish, a cheat, a fool, etc.

*) TpH KpaT[Ki], H HauiHMH H cKOH<v\H AHCTiWH — the words tc were omitted in the edition of Hażdeua 1. p. c, but only in the Slavic text; in the Romanian translation they are expressed very precisely as follows: si cum iu trel renduri venisse panulu Isacii la gra- Jiele YÓstrc cu scrissori alle selle proprie.?i altele din parte-ne.

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"*) By aspiy (from the Greek a'jzpov) was commonly understood as small silver onychinumus albiis; further details can be found in Wenelin's treatise on it, in his Bjiaxo-6ojirapcKifl rpaMarbi, page 'JG- 107, and in Miklosicza Frenidworter, page 3.

'^) This document is written on half-sheet paper and has a smaller, embossed state seal; in the inscription surrounding the edge of the seal, the following words can be read: imMflTh iG"). K[OTAnnn, liObKOAhl H r[OGIIOA.H]Nh.

') Charłów also Chorłów and Hyrłów for rum. Harleu, is the capital of the district of the same name, on the upper course of the Bahliu River, a subsidiary of Jiji.

XI.

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Prince Szczepan of Moldavia, surnamed the Young), guarantees the merchants

Lviv etc. all the rights and freedoms they were previously entitled to commercial and issues them a safe conduct letter with the same content as the safe conduct letter decree of Prince Stephen the Great of January 25, 1463 ')

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by the grace of God, we, Szczepau, voivode and hospodai of the Moldavian land, do this openly with this letter •'')

Then word for word as in the above-mentioned letter of conduct of Prince Stephen the Great **), up to the final formula, which reads:

And for the greater force of all that has been written above, we have ordered this letter to be issued and our seal to be affixed to it. And written in Suceava, in the year 7031, in the month of November.

') Prince Szczepan, surnamed the Young (in Romanian: Stefan cel Tinar), ruled the land of Moldavia according to Latopis. vol. I. page 153 - 56 from April 1517 to January 1527.

*) IloArtSrk Toro ahctS npHRHANorc, - these words (if they are not mindless repetition of the original under No. Moreover, there was another, much more detailed letter - a privilege, in which their rights and commercial freedoms were described with the same precision as in the previous privileges.

^) The document is written on parchment, 30 cm high and 37 cm wide; form of letters index; smaller state seal with the following inscription in the border:

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*) Printed in this edition under no. *IX.

XIL

in Iasi 1579

The Moldavian prince Peter, surnamed Chromy, informs the townspeople of Lviv, etc., that at the request of Moldavian merchants, in order to prevent further abuses by Kolomyia and Lviv customs officers, a main fair and at the same time the main warehouse for Moldavian goods was established in the village of Szypiniec; but it assures them that the commercial rights and freedoms granted to Lemberg merchants by ancient privileges remain intact, with the exception of only a few Jews who, because they caused considerable and dangerous competition to domestic merchants in the trade with cattle, were expelled from the Moldavian countries.