Aleksy Zarychta to Wojciech Zimnicki with New Year's greetings and official matters

[P. 2] + My most dear and beloved Brother! For this New Year and many others, I sincerely and faithfully wish you and your household the abundant gift of God and His holy blessing, and as an unworthy servant, I pray to the Lord God for it. I consider that man happy [...] who is loved by God and by men: firstly in secret, because a prudent man should always diligently and without arrogance cultivate careful concern and [...] in his bosom; secondly openly, because various people for various reasons proclaim and praise friendship. I rejoice greatly in this and thank the Lord God that you, my dear Brother, enjoy kindness and respect among great men in those parts; I wish that you may flourish in this for a long time and not forget us. My [...] lord and good friend of yours, His Grace Mr. Stanisław Lipnicki, spoke to me personally in a kind and friendly manner about your prosperity, for which I thank you beautifully. His Grace favors me, for I also greatly value his friendship and wish to cultivate it until death, out of love and memory of his famous and noble parent, rejoicing in the noble Mr. Stanisław, his son, a worthy and prudent man. I also recommend to you my old good friend, living there nearby in those parts, His Grace Mr. Jan Wojsza, who made an agreement with me that I would teach and look after his children, and promised much. I ask you to visit His Grace and I ask that you love my dear brother there, and through that, you will also be able to serve His Grace boldly. And I myself, old, and Zawisza, will unworthily pray to the Lord God for all [...], wishing also that all the Tatars, those dogs, break their necks, and that the household may celebrate safely, [P. 3] celebrate, so that peace may finally come to the hosts, God grant. [...] the soldiers of His Grace the Chancellor themselves [...] are pushing into those lands and I think that they themselves [...] would descend, so that they themselves [...] royal and private goods, may the devil take them there [...], which will stir up anger. I, with my whole heart, have protected the subjects on both sides and in peace [...]. Furthermore, my brothers can study a little bit that patent for the officialis office, sent by [...] the Bishop, with certain due authorizations. With thanksgiving, I surrender myself to the grace of my dear and beloved Brother, His Grace, and I pray for health for your spouse [...]. In Kyiv, January 19, 1636. Your Grace's, my dear Brother's brother and servant, noble Aleksy Zarychta, acting Kyiv officialis, with my own hand. [Postscript in a different hand at the bottom:] [...] to the Lviv [...] greeting and for the New Year from your brother lords.

[S. 2] + Moj wielce myssy y kochani P[anie] Bracie Na ten rok nowi y wielka inszych czoinego daru Boskiego y Jego S. błogosławieństwa z polnie ż miłtymi domowemi W[aszej] M[oś]ci mydle wiernie życzę, y niegodni od P. Boga proszę. Beatum illud [...] existimo, qui a Deo et ab hominibus dili- gitur primo occultum quod est prudens semper solerte curam in sinu suo diligenter fovere absque est presumptione debet et [...]tur, secundum aperto quia diversi diverse gratia amicitiam proclamant et celebrant, ja sie z tego cieszę wielce y P. Bo- gu dziękuię, że W[asza] M[ość] moj kochani P[anie] Bratku naś tam w tych kraiach myłość y między wielkimi ludźmi, życzę abyść tę w tem długowiecznie zakwitał a nas nie zapominał. Moj wffud[?] Pan a przyiaciel dobri W[aszej] M[oś]ci Jeg[o] m[ość] P. Stanisław Lipnicki iucunde et amice opowiadał mi sam felicitatem W[aszej] M[oś]ci, pysznie[?] proszę dzięku- ię W[aszej] M[oś]ci. Jeg[o] m[ość] mi służy bo y ia multum faveo amicitiam iego, et usque ad mortem fovere volo, ato propter amorem & memoriam cla- rissimi et nobilissimi Parentis eius, ciesząc Generosissimi D. Stani- slai filij sui, viri optimi et prudentis. Przydaie iesce W[aszej] M[oś]ci mego dawnego dobrego Przyiaciela a tam blisko w kraiach tam- tych m[ieszkającego?] Jeg[o] m[ość] P. Iana Woyszę ktory mie tam w son- foederatiam z inszei z soba zawiązał, abiem ia dziatka słuchać ucze- ciał, y wiele obiecował. Proszę do Jeg[o] m[oś]ci nawiedzenia y prosząc abi tam pokliszego W[aszej] M[oś]ci brata mego myl[ego?] myłował, a tem też służyć będziesz śmiał Jeg[o] m[oś]ci, a ia sam stari, y Zawisza, P. Boga za wszystkich Czemcow[?] niegodni prosić będę, przydaiąc y to abi wszycy Tatarowie sobakowie, syie połamali, y domco niewinnie festowali [S. 3] festowali, abi iuż pokoi gospodarz dai P. Boże. [...]że samiem Jpp żołnierze Jeg[o] m[ość] P. Cance[larz?]ba[?] [...] niska: pia się tam w te kraie, y myślę żeby sam sobie mylka[?] iako naedluki zeszli, abi samiem bona Regalia et privata dyra, im tam bies grogow błogosławionieś ludzkich co gniew wy- dźie, iam wraz swym sercom stroni oboieych poddanych moich zabie- zał, y w pokoiu Złastwile[?]. Dalei potrosze iednak postudiuać się da mym Bratac na ten Patent na officialtwo od Ramego Nasze- wtele[?] p. D. Biskupa posłani, z niktorimi rownemi facultatibus podziękowanlie oddawam się gołębim goyłość Złastw[am?] mego myłego y kochanego Brata, Jeg[o] m[ość] P[anu] małżonkę swoie zdrowie proszę dmyłui 2 mi nowi mieo[?]. W Kijowie 19 Jan[uarii] 1636 W[aszej] m[oś]ci m[ego] m[iłego] Brata Brat y sługa G. Alexy Zarychta, L[oco] officialis[?] kiiow[ski] manu [propria] [Dopisek inną ręką na dole:] Mr [...] Flatoni k [...] Luoviensem magna [...] salutem et pro / se anno novo. a D[omi]nis D. C. fratribus suis.