Translation / modern text
[P. 4]
My Dear Sir,
How can I not remain silent and take up the pen with trepidation, when I see with my own eyes some distrust from Your Graces towards me? Is it my fault? Consider this among yourselves and do justice to the matter. I have committed no offense against you, unless it be that I opposed what is now ruining you. Time, God willing, will reveal both: my well-meaning intentions and your unnecessary attachment to that which is now turning into poison for you. I declare herewith that I am entirely yours, as I was before. Try me and put me to the test when the opportunity arises, and you will recognize, not by words but by the deed itself, that I am a kindly disposed brother and humble servant to the entire illustrious House of Your Graces.
Jan Krasiński, Voivode of Płock, by his own hand.
In Warsaw, the 3rd of January 1697.
Commending myself to the grace of the Most Illustrious Lord Crown Standard-Bearer, I also commend myself to His Grace the Starosta of Bohusław.
[P. 5]
[Address:]
To His Excellency the Voivode of Volhynia
Original wording — transcription
[S. 4]
Monseigneur
Jakze milczec niemam? y z boiaznią brac
się do piora? kiedy na oko widzę iakąs
do mnie WM[mego] Panstwa diffidentią, ciere
li culpâ meâ? porachuycie się z sobą, a
daycie justitiam causae, Nicem prze-
ciwko Wam nieprzewinił, chyba żem
temu przeczył, co Was teraz perimit
Czas to da P.[an] Bóg odkryie oboie y moy
życzliwy Sentiment y Wasze się niepo-
trzebne przywiązanie do tego co się
Wam teraz bin [w?] toxicum obraca. Pro-
testor przytym zem Waszym iest
cały, iakom y przedtym był, sprobuy-
cie, a na occazyą nardzcie [naraźcie?], a uznacie nie
słowy ale rzeczą samą, zem iest Ca-
łego preswietnego Domu WMMPan-
stwa Uprzeymie Zyczliwym
Bratem y
Unizonym Sługą
Jan Krasinski w.[ojewoda] pł[oc]ki ręk[ą własną]
[z lewej strony:]
W Warszawie
d. 3. Janu[arii] 1697
JW[ielmożnemu] Panu Chorążemu
Koron[nemu] oddawszy się
łasce upraszam wraz
y JM[os]ci Staroscie Bohusławskiem[u]
[S. 5, adres:]
A Son Excellence
Monseigneur Le Palatin
de Wolhinie
Reading notes
In the inventory, the author is incorrectly identified as the Voivode of Polotsk (instead of Płock). The addressee on the address leaf (p. 5) is titled as the Voivode of Volhynia ('Le Palatin de Wolhinie' – Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski held this office from 1697 to 1702). The postscript mentions the Crown Standard-Bearer (Aleksander Jan Jabłonowski) and the Starosta of Bohusław.
Other letters in this unit
- New Year's greetings from the Voivode of Płock, Jan Krasiński, to the Voivode of Volhynia, Jan Jabłonowski
- Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski regarding unjustified distrust and loyalty
- Letter from Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski regarding the Masovian sejmiks and the convocation
- Letter from Jan Krasiński to Stanisław Jabłonowski sending sheets of the 'Merkuriusz'
- Jan Bonawentura Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski regarding the Senate council and Saxon troops
- Letter from Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski regarding the sejmik and his departure to Rome
- Letter of 17 February 1701 concerning a successful return
- Letter from Jan Krasiński to Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski with a note on current events
- Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski on moderation at the sejmiks
- Letter of 17 March 1701 concerning an audience for envoys
- Easter wishes from the Voivode of Płock, Jan Krasiński, to the Voivode of Ruthenia, Jan Jabłonowski
- Letter from Kraków of 15 April 1701
- Letter from Gdańsk of 29 April 1701 concerning political affairs
- Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski regarding a trip to Lublin and his son's return
- Letter from Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski justifying delays in correspondence
- Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski regarding an ongoing trial in Lublin
- Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski: New Year's wishes and a request for support
- Letter from Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski regarding his arrival in Warsaw
- Letter from Warsaw of 10 February 1702
- Letter from Warsaw of 24 February 1702
- Letter from Warsaw of 27 February 1702 concerning a legal matter
- Letter from Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski regarding war disasters and the Swedes
- Jan Krasiński to Jan Jabłonowski regarding the Swedish threat and Saxon oppression
- Letter from Lviv of 27 January 1703 concerning public affairs
- Letter from Lviv of 6 February 1703 concerning correspondence and political affairs
- Letter from Lviv of 20 February 1703 concerning the Sejm and public affairs
- Undated letter concerning affairs in Podlasie and Lithuania
- Undated letter concerning parliamentary and public affairs
