Jan Andrzej Morsztyn invites the Lviv magistracy to his wedding with Catherine Gordon

[P. 2] Arch. Ant. bundle 566. [1] Distinguished Gentlemen, Esteemed Friends! My particular kindness towards your City and the readiness of my spirit to dedicate my efforts to it give me in return the hope for every testimony of goodwill on the part of Your Graces. Since I desire to gain an undoubted proof of this upon the change of my status, I have deemed it appropriate to inform Your Graces that the Most Serene Queen, our Gracious Lady, has promised me in marriage the Most Illustrious Maiden, Lady Catherine Gordon, Marchioness of Huntly, and has set the day of April 27 for the wedding act. Considering that this act will gain much dignity if Your Graces wish to show your kindness to me through your delegate at that time and thus bind my efforts more closely to yourselves and your city, I ask in a friendly manner that you wish to prove to our Court and to myself by this public testimony that a significant bond of kindness connects me with Your Graces, which I, for my part, am ready to eagerly confirm to Your Graces with all the services that could be expected from me or my office. Otherwise, I wish Your Graces good health and the best of success from my heart. Given in Warsaw, on the 5th day of April in the year 1659. Your Graces' friend ready to serve, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Crown Referendary [Pencil note at the bottom left:] M. 49 [P. 3, address:] To the Distinguished Gentlemen: Burgomaster, Councilors, Reeve, Jurors, and the entire Magistracy of the City of Lviv, Gentlemen and Esteemed Friends. [Below, a preserved oval wax seal under a paper wafer, with the Leliwa coat of arms under a miter/crown]

[S. 2] Arch: Ant: fasc: 566. [1] Spectabiles Domini Amici Honorandi. Eximium meum erga Civitatem V[est]ram studium, & promptus ad operam meam eidem impendendam animus, omnem vicissim a DD. VV. mihi repromittit, boni affectus testificationem. Unde & quod non dubium eiusdem sumpturus in immutando statu meo argumentum, significandum DD. V[ist]ris duxi, Serenissimam Reginam D[omi]nam D[omi]nam Clementissimam, mihi Illustrissimam Virginem Dominam Catharinam Gordon Marchionissam de Huntley, in Matrimonium condixisse, atq[ue] diem xxvii Aprilis Actui Nuptiali praefixisse. Cum verò multum solennitatis Actui illi accessurum considerem, si DD. V[est]rae, per Delegatum suum pro illo tempore, suam erga me propensionem significare, indeq[ue] obstrictius studia mea, sibi civitati- q[ue] V[est]rae addicere voluerint, amicè peto, ut hoc publico testimonio, & Aulae Nostrae, mihique ipsi constare velint, non exiguam mihi cum DD. V[ist]ris intercedere boni affectus necessitudinem, quam ex parte mea DD. V[ist]ris, omni officiorum genere, quae à Me vel Munere meo desiderari poterunt alacriter semper approbare. De caetero DD. V[ist]ris bonam valetudinem optimosq[ue] successus ex corde apprecor. Dato Varsaviae die v. Aprilis A[nn]o: 1659 DD. V[est]rarum amicus ad off[ici]a paratus Joan: Andr: Morstin Ref[erendarius] Regn[i] [Dopisek ołówkiem u dołu po lewej:] M. 49 [S. 3, adres:] Spectabilibus Dominis Proconsuli Con- sulibus Advocato Scabinis totiq[ue] Magi- stratui Civitatis Leopolien[si]s Dominis & Amicis Honorand[i]s. [Poniżej zachowana owalna pieczęć lakowa pod papierowym opłatkiem, z herbem Leliwa pod mitrą/koroną]