Translation / modern text
Noble and Distinguished Gentlemen, Respected Friends!
The honest Hieronim Szeremeta from the Sambir economy of His Royal Majesty, having suffered prejudice regarding his debt at the hands of a certain Wiśniowski, a burgher of Lwów, and having not yet received due satisfaction under the verdict rendered three years ago in the privileged decanal court, in the face of the injustice suffered humbly requested my intercession with Your Honors. Therefore, as the guardian of the laws (Custos legum), wishing that the subjects of His Royal Majesty, my Gracious Lord, live with each other in the best peace and harmony, and that justice be administered to everyone according to equality and the law, and that further petitions from poor folk do not reach the ears of His Royal Majesty and my own – I interpose my authority, urging that Your Honors, by virtue of your office, see fit to bring this verdict to immediate execution and order the defendant to satisfy fully the claims of this poor man. I have no doubt that you will not wish to expose him to further costs through delays (dilationes), taking care that also the expenses he has incurred during this time be refunded to him in full along with the principal sum. And to Your Honors, I commend my benevolent wishes. Given in Warsaw, on the 14th day of the month of January in the Year of our Lord 1667.
Your Noble and Distinguished Honors' benevolent friend,
Jan of Leszno, Crown Grand Chancellor.
[Address:] To the Noble and Distinguished Gentlemen: the Mayor, Aldermen, and the entire Magistrate of the city of His Royal Majesty, Lwów, Esteemed Friends.
[Magistrate's note:] Szeremeta has been satisfied.
Original wording — transcription
[S. 2]
Archiv[um] ant[iquum] fasc[iculus] 580. I
Nobiles et Spectabiles D[omi]ni
Amici Honorandi
Ukrzywdzony będąc o pewnym długu swoim Uććiwy Hieronim Szeremet z Oekonomiey J[ego] K[rólewskiej] M[iśći] Samborskiey od niejakiego Wisniowskiego Mieszczanina Lwowskiego, y podług Decretu in fundo Iurisdictionis Privilegiatæ Decanatūs od lat trzech ferowanego należytey do tąd nie odnosząc satisfactyiey: w tym swoim ktore cierpi bezprawiu, supplicował mi pokornie o przyczynną do W[aszmośći]ow interpozycyią. Więc iako Custos legum zycząc aby Poddani J[ego] K[rólewskiej] M[iśći] P[ana] M[ego] M[iłościwe]go w iako nayslepszym pokoiu y zgodzie z sobą żyli, tudziesz aby każdemu ex æquo et iure administrowana była sprawiedliwość, y dalsze tak J[ego] K[rólewskiej] M[iśći] iako y uszu moich [w ustawicznych?] ubogich ludzi nie zachodziły supplicki: Interpono powagę moię instando abyśćie W[asz]m[oś]ć pro debito Officij sui, Decret ten do nieodwłoczney przyprawić executiey zechćieli, y temu Ubogiemu Człowiekowi omnimodam uczynić satisfactionem Stronie obwinioney kazali. W tym niewątpię ze dalszemi tego Ubogiego Człowieka niezechćećie do dalszych kosztow przywodzić dilatyiami, na tym będąc, aby y te ktore przez ten czas łożył, przy originalney Summie oraz mu in toto przywrocone [?] były. Moie zaś y życzliwe chęci zalecam W[aszmoś]ciom. Dan w Warszawie Dnia 14 M[iesię]ca Stycznia Roku Pańskiego 1667.
Nobiliūm et Spectabiliūm D[omi]na[ti]onūm V[ast]rarūm
Amicus Benevolus
Jan z Leszna
Canclerz Wielki Koronny
[Dopiski archiwalne u dołu:] Jan Leszczyński / L. 16 / do Magistratu Lwowskiego
[S. 3, adres:]
Nobilibus et Spectabilibus D[omi]nis –
Proconsuli Consulibus totiq[ue] Magistratui Civi-
tatis S[acrae] R[egiae] M[ajes]tis Leopoliensis Amicis –
Honorandis
[Dopisek pod adresem inną ręką:] Satisfactum Szeremecie.
[Pod spodem pieczęć lakowa pod papierowym opłatkiem z herbem Wieniawa Jana Leszczyńskiego].
Reading notes
Page 1 is an archival inventory card. The inventory features the form of the debtor's surname "Wiśniewski", whereas the text of the letter clearly reads "Wisniowski". On page 3, below the address, there is a magistrate's annotation confirming execution: "Satisfactum Szeremecie". Chancellor's seal preserved under a paper wafer (Wieniawa coat of arms).
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