privilege under which he allowed to build bread stalls in Lviv on the Market Square or
elsewhere and gave annual quitrent from these stalls to the Lviv burghers for the
rebuilding and fortification of the city, with the condition that the burgomaster and
municipal councilors would make an account each year from the used funds (stated in
the final clause of the document) [7, p. 370
–371].
Among the aspects of the interaction between the royal authorities and the
magistrate of Lviv was the use of city artillery for military needs of the army. Lviv's
artillery was involved during the Polish-Moldavian or Polish-Turkish wars. After
military campaigns, especially if they were not successful, Lviv guns did not always
return to the place of their disposition. The corresponding royal decrees and
lettersserved the reason for the use of Lviv artillery outside the city. For example, on
March 12, 1570, Sigismund II Augustus applied to the Lviv magistrate with the request
that the city provided 12 falconets with gunpowder, bullets and other necessary
ammunition for a military campaign [17, sheet 32]. The use of Lviv artillery not only
for the needs of the city took place in different times than during the wars. Thus, in
1554, Sigismund II Augustusin his letter dated April 12 ordered that the Horodok elder
Mykolai Meletskyi was given two big guns for the castle, since there was "the need for
the Castle of Horodok to be secured with artillery" [17, sheet 30].
CONCLUSION
The conducted research allowed obtaining results on the basis of well-
characterized archival sources and analysis of historiography. It has been established
that the city privileges granted by the monarchs at different times are the main source
of the study of the kings’policy to strengthen the defense capacity of Lviv. As well as
analyzing the content of royal privileges, you can follow the establishment of Lviv as
an important defense and strategic center. Urban fortifications are first mentioned in
the privileges of Władysław II Jagiełło. Under the reign of the Władysław II Jagiełło’s
successors – Kazimierz IV and Jan I Olbracht, a large-scale erection of new
fortifications, walls and towers finished. The privileges of the kings-successors of
Jagiełło were typologically similar and were provided for the same purpose, as
Władysław II Jagiełło did himself.
The analysis of historiography shows that today there is no comprehensive study
of the classifications, functions and information potential of archival sources on the
trade of war in Lviv in the second half of the 14
th
–16
th
centuries. Despite these
achievements, a number of issues need to be clarified.
Thus, after analyzing the privileges that functioned in the system of
communication of the Jagiellonian dynasty with regard to the defense capacity of the
city of Lviv, we can distinguish (systematize) them in terms of content as the privileges
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