Translation / modern text
[P. 2]
Sir.
I have no opposition to the will and decree of the Lord God, and in this unfortunate plague [...], which one should accept with all due humility, we should nevertheless maintain what belongs to order. My house opposite the Bernardine nuns is in this case the most dangerous, in which, by the order of Your Grace, my Gracious Lord, plague-stricken people have been placed, and it has been so long contaminated that it is difficult – even if the Lord God were to appease this danger – to approach and enter this
[P. 3]
household. Therefore, I submit to Your Grace, my Gracious Lord, my just claim: let them go to the city, for not only does this house bring me no income so far, but a few souls also need to warm themselves in it. It is not, in truth, my inheritance, but since I have a debt on this household, I need my profit and convenience, which cannot take place in these times. May Your Grace, my Gracious Lord, therefore find a way to facilitate my matter, for which I greatly ask, remaining with all respect
Your Grace, my Gracious Noble Lord's entirely well-wishing friend and humble servant,
Father Potępski, by his own hand.
March 10, 1721
Original wording — transcription
[S. 2]
Monsieur.
Woli y dyspozycyi Pana Boga nie mam żadnego w sobie
do sprzeciwienia y w téy nieszczęsliwey pladze poku=[?]
[k]tora na ludzi [skreślone: przyimować się] z wszelką naimnalezy
przyimować pokorą jednakże co należy do po=
rządku obserwować powinniśmy. Dom moj przed
Panny Bernardynkami jest in hoc passu najniebespiecz=
nieyszy, w ktorym z dyspozycyi WMM Pana lokowani
zapowietrzeni ludzie, y tak już zestarzale za=
paskudzony, że trudno, choc Pan Bog uśmierzy
to niebespieczeństwo, brać się y przystąpić do tego
[S. 3]
domostwa, Zaczem donoszę WMM Panu słuszną moję
pretensio niech idą do miasta, bo nie tylko że ten
dom nic mi de te pory nie profituje, aley na par
duszy ogrzać się go potrzeba, nie moje to praw=
da dziedzictwo, ale że mam na tym domostwie dług
potrzebien jestem swego prowentu, y wygody, co już
być hisce temporibus nie może. Racz tedy WMM Pan
adinvenire medium ufacilitowania interesu me=
go wielce proszę, przy tym przy wszelkiej ob=
serwancyi jestem
W[aszeci] M[ego] M[ości] W[ielmożnego] M[ego] M[ości] Pana cale życzliwy[m]
Przyjacielem y powolnym sługą
X[iądz] Potępski mpp[r]
d[nia] 10 Martij 1721 A[nn]o
Reading notes
Page 1 is an archival inventory card. In the inventory, the author is identified as Father P. Potempski, and the recipient as the Lviv magistrate. The letter concerns a house in front of the Bernardine convent in Lviv, where, on the orders of the city authorities, plague victims were placed, which led to the devastation and contamination of the building and prevented the author from drawing income from it to pay off the debt.
