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Letter from Wojciech Pedianus to Andrzej Mądrowicz with New Year's greetings and news

Albertus Pedianus [Wojciech Pedianus, Lviv wójt] Andrzej Mądrowicz, scribe of the Lviv city council (Honorat[us] D[omi]n[u]s Andreas Mądrowicz Notarius I[ncliti] D[igesto] Consulum Leopolien[sium])
14 Ianuarii Anno 1591 · Lviv (Leopoli in Praetorio)

Lviv wójt (reeve) Wojciech Pedianus thanks the city scribe Andrzej Mądrowicz for his New Year's greetings and comments on political unrest and current municipal affairs. He also entrusts him with the delivery of correspondence to Father Antoni and requests contact with the Starosta of Śniatyn, Mikołaj Jazłowiecki.

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Translation / modern text

[P. 2] Heartiest greetings and all the best. Most Gracious Sir, I thank you, my dear and kind Mr. Scribe, for having deigned to greet me, Your Grace, for the New Year; with what I have received from Your Grace's grace, the same I wholeheartedly and fervently desire from the Lord God, which Your Grace deigns to wish me. Regarding Your Grace's domestic affairs. I thank you for Your Grace's news; may God grant that we hear better ones. As long as civil discord continues to breed [...]. Regarding [...] His Royal Majesty, Mr. Stanisław Żółkiewski [reports] in a letter to Their Graces the Councilors that he is waiting for the prince [...]. The Lord God knows what we are waiting for and what to expect from this; what will become of us due to the delay. Let us expect better, mindful of Your Grace, for I have barely written this, being absorbed by municipal public affairs. Keep track of the matter with Mr. Andrzej Sambor, who has not yet reached an agreement. As for the road from Zasław, the agreement will [...] take it. I wish for Your Grace and all of Your Grace's family to welcome [the New Year] in good health and to embrace each of you warmly. [...] I commend myself to Your Grace's love and kindness time and again. I wish you prosperity and health. In Lviv at the town hall, January 14, 1591. Your Grace's most kind friend. Kind Mr. Scribe, I ask Your Grace, please ensure that this letter is certainly delivered to the dearest priest [...] my dear father Antoni Pobieszonowicz [...], for as I hear, I will be a guest in Warsaw before [...]. Also, go to Mr. Mikołaj Jazłowiecki, Starosta of Śniatyn. [...] I would prefer [...] than for this letter of mine to be lost, having to be delivered to father Mr. Antoni. Magister Wojciech Pedianus [P. 3, address:] To the honorable Mr. Andrzej Mądrowicz, scribe of the noble council of Lviv councilors, a highly respected friend and neighbor.

Original wording — transcription

[S. 2] S. P. et omne bon[um]. Wielce M[iłoś]ci[wy] P[anie] dziękuiey moy miły, a łaskawy P. Pisarzu, żebym sie W[aszej] M[iłości] raczeł pozdrowić na nowy rok, z czemem o[t]rzymał ia od pana łaskę W[aszej] M[iłości], tegos czałe od P. Boga przebernie ządam, czo mi W[asza] M[ość] życzicz raczysz. In reb[us] W[asza] M[ość] domestick. Za no- winy W[aszej] M[iłości] dziękuie, Bóg day to bychmy o lepszych słyszeli, Do qvo discordia Ciuiel płodzić mistrot[?], O randztonie[?] J[ego] K[rólewskiej] M[iś]ci P. Stanisław Zółkiewski in list do Jch M[iłoś]ci Panow Raddziec że czeka Principem połaga pogońli. P. Bóg wie czo czekamy, i czo sie ex his spodziewać: Za conctatia znami dzieć będzie. Opczinne meliora, baczibne do W[aszej] M[iłości], bo, i to zaledwiem na- spisał, będanc intercepted civil[ibus] nego[tiis] publicis. Trzymay- cież przedsię da P. Andrzeia Sambora, kthory sie ieszcze nierozgą- dzieł. Co do drodze z Sasłabi, zgodę to czo wezmie. Wolę ażby W[asza] M[ość] ze wszystka W[aszej] M[iłości] familiią wdobrym zdrowiu, i czo chceba przyzwitał, i każde z W[aszą] M[iłością] mile obłapiet. I[...] me W[aszej] M[iłości] amori et benevolentia iterum atq[ue] iteru[m] comiendo beneg[i]s. H. T. valere cupio. Leopoli in Praetorio 14 Ia- nuarii Anno 1591. D. T. benevolentissimus amicus. Chci łaskawy P. Pisarzu proszę W[aszej] M[iłości] racz oni o tym doglę- dać, aby certo był ten list oddany naymilszemu ksendzem koro[?] abo sterczem mego, miłemu memu Oycu Antoniemu Pobieszonowicz[?] fortunicum, leboy iako słysz gościem będę w Warcza- wie zani sie przy[...], Jdź też do P. Mikołaia Jazłowieckim Staroście Sniatynskim. Chcebnie wole gorszą meo łatka niż przęła, aby ten list moi poronił ony, bydz mieczem oycem D. Antoniemu oddany. M[agiste]r Albertus Pedianus [S. 3, adres:] Honorato D[omi]no Andreae Mądrowicz Notario I[ncliti] D[igesti] Consulum Leopolien[sium] amico et vicin[o] plur[im]um observandissimo

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