 It is dated 4 April 1365 referring to the estate transfer from Zdeněk ze Štenberka to a man named Heylin.The document also states that the transferred estate is connected to the right coming from year 1278, thus town existence before the 13th century is probable,

Another document comes from 1307 and 1308 which is a complaint of monks from Lanškroun who had to pay tribute of 180 silver hryvniatos to the robber baron Ježek ze Šilperka (literally Jezek from Šilperk, respectively from Štíty).According to Zemské desky, Štíty was owned by the House of Štenberk from 1308 who often leased the town to another aristocratic families.