Translation / modern text
[P. 2]
13 April 1697
Most Illustrious and Most Gracious Lord and Benefactor,
While offering my dutiful, most humble respects to you, my Benefactor, I simultaneously submit the instruction of the co[...]. And just as I dedicate my service to Your Grace, my Benefactor, with due reverence, so in proving my zeal, I have not ceased to urge His Grace the Chamberlain of Przemyśl toward a constant [...] and to maintain an unwavering declaration in favor of the affairs of Your Grace, my Benefactor, and His Grace, my Lord and Benefactor, when partisans were striving hard to pull him to their side. I also assured His Grace, my Benefactor, with kindness, that through the agency of Your Grace, my Benefactor, it will achieve a favorable turn and result without further [...]
[P. 3]
He hinted about a horse, whether he might receive it by the grace of His Grace, the Lord of Kraków; I promised him to arrange this through the mediation of Your Grace, my Benefactor, so that he might maintain a constant and strong friendship for the interests of the House of Your Grace, my Lord and Benefactor. Your Grace, my Lord and Benefactor, will do a great [...] when he now, for parliamentary reasons [...] from the renunciation of the starosta office on the hetman's [...]. He also showed heart to Czarniecki himself with an assignment for [fifteen?] thousand. My Benefactor, to consult with Your Grace, my Benefactor, about the disposition for the future time. Meanwhile, may Your Grace, my Benefactor, [...] to all [...] and servants, with whom I also, turning to the feet of Your Grace, my Benefactor, with affections, remain
Your Grace, my Lord and Benefactor's, devoted and humble servant
Aleksander Fiałkowski
Original wording — transcription
[S. 2]
13 Aprilis 1697
Iasnie Wielmozny M[oś]cie M[oj] Wielce M[oś]ci Dobrodzieiu
Przy oddaniu powinniey mey humillim[am] Sam[em]u y Dobrodziejowi
observantiey, oraz prezentuię Instrukcyą dw[...]e. A iako
comurata pietate przykł[adam?] słuzbę W[aszej] M[ości] Dobrodziejowi, tak
dowodny moię dyskrecyą nieprzestałem solicitowac J[ego] M[o]sci
Podkomorzego Przemyskiego do statecznego a ko[nca?] y do
dotrzymania nieodmienney kontestatiey do Interessow W[aszej] M[ości]
Dobrodzieia y J[ego] M[ana] Dobrodzieia, kiedy caliend[?] particu-
larowie na swoię gorzeli nahaniac go stronę, vpewniłem
tak y z affektem J[ego] M[ana] Dobrodzieia, ze przez Wam[ości] Dobro-
dzieia odbierze eventum et effectum bez dilszych [...]
[S. 3]
przymowił sie o konia gdybym mogł miec z łaski JmP Kra-
kowskiego, obiecałem mu to sprawic przez Inwersyfiką
WM Dobrodzieia a zeby stateczną et firmam przyjazn
trzymał Interessow Domu Wam[ości] M[ego] P[ana] y Dobrodzieiow.
Wielką Wam[ości] M[y] Pan y Dobrodziey vczynisz tęż[?], kiedy
go teraz motyw Poselskim [...] z rezygnancyey sta-
ro[stwa?] na Hetmanskim [...]. Wydał tez serce Sam
Czarn[ieck]iemu assignatą na [piętnaście?] tysięcy. Moy Do-
brodzieiu sadzic z WM Dobrodzieiom o dalszy czas dyspozycyą.
Tym czasem faworow Wam[ości] Dobrodziey [...] do wszy[stkich?] [...]
y sługi, z ktorą y ya do nozek Panskich WM Dobrodzieia
odzywaiąc sie z affektow zostaię
W[aszej] M[ości] M[ego] Pana y Dobrodzieia zyczliwym
y vsluznym sługą
Alexander Fiałkowsky
Reading notes
Cursive script, in places the ink is faded or bleeding through from the other side. Year and day date at the top of p. 2: '13 Aprilis 1697'. No address leaf (letter written on a single folded sheet, pp. 2–3). Recipient identified in the header by the title 'Jasnie Wielmozny Mscie...', identified in the inventory as Jan Jabłonowski, then Voivode of Volhynia. The text mentions 'JmP Krakowskim' (likely Hetman Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski, Castellan of Kraków, the recipient's father).
