City councillors of six cities: Krakow, Sącz, Kazimierz, Wieliczka, Bochnia and Olkusz, commissioners to the highest German court, summoned by the king to pronounce a verdict in the case of Ludwik Pruffer versus Peter Czech, a plenipotentiary of the inheritors of Jakub Fornala – when Czech did not appear for the hearing – pronounce a verdict by default and ordered him to refund the court costs
The Commissioners’ Court of Six Cities, established in 1356 by King Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki, 1310-1370), was an institution of appeal against the verdicts of the Court of Higher German Law at the Krakow Castle and other higher courts, specifically in the cases of the Wójts [originally hereditary superiors of the municipality acting on behalf of the sovereign of the city] and administrators of royal villages. It would also issue ortyls and instructions in controversial or legally complicated matters at the request of a city court, in this way ending the practice of asking the Magdeburg court for legal advice by the lower courts. In order for the verdict of the Court of Six Cities to be valid, it had to be confirmed by the attachment of the seals of all six cities (of Krakow, Sącz, Kazimierz, Wieliczka, Bochnia and Olkusz) the deputies of which were the members of the bench of judges.
1531, Krakow
Parchment, six seals: lesser of the city council of Krakow, of the town of Nowy Sącz, town council of Kazimierz, town of Wieliczka, town of Bochnia, town of Olkusz
State Archive in Krakow, ref. no Perg. 499