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Despot Stefan Lazarević

The Charter to the Athonite Monastery of Saint Panteleimon - Rusikon

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Juga has offered in Glbočica the village of Gorino and the village of Sedlarci.

Bogdan Radujević has offered in Podgora the village of Dubovo with all its metochia and boundaries, and the rights of that village.

And further Voivode Novak has offered a village in Toplica: Biserka, with its metochion and with its boundaries.

And further the sovereign lady, Lady Jevgenija, and the sovereign lord Prince Stefan and his brother Vuk have offered a village on the Danube [...].

All that is written above, which has been offered by our lord the Holy Prince, by us and by our nobles, all this, commanding and confirming it, we have freed from every imperial revenue. Should any revenue [levy] arise, let the Monastery be free of it. All that has been offered we have freed from every labor due to the Sovereign, so that neither voivode, nor kephale, nor court keeper, nor čelnik, nor anyone else of the ruling men in our land is free to command those labors, [but] only the monastery's diakonit; we have likewise freed it from the building of town walls, from watch duty, from cartage, from porterage, from building labor, from military service, from provisioning, from falconry service, from hunting service, from the duty of hospitality, as well as from the food levy, the sasad, the priselica and the pritražica. And let [the people of the grant] not be judged elsewhere, [but] only before our čelnik. And all that we have offered we have confirmed by this most illustrious charter with the golden seal. And we beseech and adjure him whom God shall be pleased to set up to rule after us - whether one of our kin or someone else - that this [which is written] not be seized, but rather confirmed.

And if anyone, through the envy of the devil, should dare to destroy what is written above, may the Lord God and His Most Pure Mother destroy such a one. And may the power of the venerable and life-giving Cross bring him to ruin. And may he be accursed by the 12 Chief Apostles and by the 318 God-bearing Fathers who were at Nicaea. And may he be numbered with Judas and Arius. And may the Holy Great Martyr of Christ Panteleimon be his avenger.

And this most illustrious charter was written in the year 6903 (1395), in the month of June, on the 8th day, in the town of Novo Brdo.

In Christ God the right-believing Prince Stefan

By the will of the Godhead shining with threefold light, I, the humble Danilo, by the grace of God Patriarch of all the Serbian and Maritime lands, by the mercy of God and the prayers of Saint Simeon and of our Holy lord and teacher and guide, the first Archbishop Sava, was set upon this holy throne of the Serbian hierarchy. I have seen the written and confirmed charter of the pious and Christ-loving lady Jevgenija, the nun, together with her God-given children, the lord and right-believing Prince Stefan and