Alexi Michailovich 4 1658

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REIGN OF SOVEREIGN TSAR AND GRAND DUKE (Knyaz’)
ALEXEI MICHAILOVICH
7166/ 1658 yr.
4. – June 30
th
. Charter -- to the Voyevoda of Vilna, Prince Mihailo Shakhovskoy.
7175 /1667 yr.
About the confirmation of the rights and privileges given to citizens of Vilna
1
by the Grand
Dukes of Lithuania and the Polish kings, and about the postponing of some articles of resolution to the
future times.
As pleaded to Us, the Great Sovereign and Our Monarchial Majesty, the Wójt
2
of Vilna and
Bürgermeisters, and Rajetzs
3
, and Lawniks
4
and all of the Vilna commoners – that We, the Great
Sovereign, Our Monarchial Majesty, would deign to bestow beyond their rights and privileges and
liberties, given to them by the Grand Dukes of Lithuania and by the Kings of Poland.
1 ............
2 ............ and so on.
As they - and the Wójts, and Bürgermeisters, and Rajetzs, and Lawniks, and commoners – also
pleaded to Us, the Great Sovereign and Our Monarchial Majesty, to gratify their Uryádniks
5
[constables] and the townsmen [burgers], who have no Royal privileges and the Sejm’s constitutional
rights:
1 ...............
2 As there be the tribunal court in Vilna, and the Deputies from all the Powiats
6
shall establish
their costs [expenditures] for kamenitzas
7
.
3 The Jews shall be sent from Vilna to the habitats in the suburbs.
4 …………………………………. and so on.
And We, the Great Sovereign and Our Monarchial Majesty, bestowed on them:
shall there be the tribunal court in Vilna, and each Powiat shall name at their cost all the tribunal court
expenses, unless there was another arrangement; and the Jews from Vilna shall be sent to the habitation
outside of the city ............. and so on.............. .
(P. P. S. Z, Vol. I, № 232).
1.Vilna – the old name of modern Vilnius.
2.Wójt – was a hereditary title of the governor of a town owned by a King or Church in Poland, Polish-
Lithuanian Commonwealth; similar to Vogt in German.
3.Rajetzs - elected members of the city magistrates and councils in Lithuanian cities; similar to Ratmann
from German "Rat" - council and "Mann" - person.
4.Ławnik - member of the Judicial Board with jurisdiction to hear criminal and some categories of civil
cases in the cities of Magdeburg Law.
5.Uryádnik - lower officer rank or police constable in the county.
6.Powiat or Povet - a territorial unit with local administration, similar to county or district, included in a
Województwo [province] in Poland or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
7.Kamenitza or kamenica, from kamen’ – “stone” - stone building, store, inn, tavern; here, possibly, used
as chambers for taxation.
Translation by Anastasia Savenko-Moore and Rick Moore, Eugene OR.
Funded by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture NYC, http://mfjc.org/.
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