Translation / modern text
[Heading:] Noble and worthy sirs, most esteemed friends.
The sender writes of the special favor of the gracious king during the current vacancy and distribution of favors, as well as of his own efforts made for almost an entire year. The following sentences are largely illegible; the author mentions the need to put matters in order and improve their condition.
In Warsaw, 24 January 1689.
[Signature illegible.]
Original wording — transcription
[Nagłówek:] Nobiles et Spectabiles Domini, Amici plurimum observandi.
Osobliwa JKM Pana naszego miłościwego łaska przy teraźniejszej wakancyi dystrybucie respektu w osobie mojej, kiedy cały rok prawie obradam [—] suo Aquilis [—] teraz dopiero wyższe moje według incedencyey alternaty [—] przenieść dobrotliwie raczył. Ale hoc magnum alarm [—] najpierwsze we mnie sollicitudines excitavit, ażebym in tych [—] immunitatibus, quidquid deest [—]; w należyty porządek, et in melius mógł conwertere; co samo gdy [—] dla ich [—] życzliwość [—].
W Warszawie d. 24 January 1689.
Nobiles et Spectabiles Domini [—].
[Podpis nieczytelny.]
Reading notes
The date “24 January 1689” appears explicitly on the sheet. PDF p. 3 contains the address to the Lviv authorities on the folded letter. The handwriting is pale and difficult to read in places; the sender has not been identified with certainty.
Other letters in this unit
- Letter from Warsaw concerning a vacancy and the distribution of royal favors
- Letter concerning Tomasz Gordon, a citizen of Lviv
- Letter concerning Tomasz Gordon and his election as alderman
- Letter from Warsaw to the Lviv magistracy concerning city affairs and mutual goodwill
- Letter to the Lviv magistracy concerning the synagogue and municipal rights
- Letter from Warsaw to the Lviv magistracy concerning the case of Mr Afendikowicz
- Letter from Jerzy Albrecht Denhoff concerning the case of the Bracław voivode
- Letter concerning the wrongs and oppression suffered by Lviv’s Jews