Translation / modern text
My Lords of Lviv!
As I have always gladly served you, so now too I wish to declare that I am most devoted to your city and to the whole community. As for the alcohol tax, I was ready to lease it to you earlier as well, but you yourselves were to blame. It is difficult now to predict what taxes the Commonwealth will have, yet I myself also believe there will be no avoiding the alcohol tax. If it is enacted, please send your representatives to me near the conclusion of the Sejm, and I promise to contract with you ahead of everyone else, subject to the proper conditions. In the meantime, I commend myself to your favour.
Uchanie, 13 March 1632.
Your well-wishing friend and willing servant, Jan Mikołaj Daniłowicz, Crown Treasurer [signature expanded according to the copy].
[Address:] To be delivered to my gracious Lords, the mayors, aldermen, and townsmen of the city of His Royal Majesty of Lviv.
Original wording — transcription
Moi Panowie Lwowianie.
Jakom ia zawsze rad służył wmściom, toż y teraz chcę oświadczyć żem iest addictissimus Miastu wmściów et toti Universitati. Co strony Czopowego tedy y pierwey gotow był wmściom Arendować, ale samiście wmć sobie byli winni. Teraz zaś co za podatki Rzptey będą, trudno divinare, iednak y sam rozumiem że bez Czopowego nie będzie, które ieżeli uchwalone będzie tedy raczcie wm pod Conclusią Seimu do mnie przysłać, a ia przed inszemi wszystkimi servatis servandis z wm kontraktować obiecuię. Oddaiąc się na ten czas łasce wmściów. Z Uchan d.13 Martii 1632.
Wmściów życzliwy Przyiaciel y służyć gotow Jan Mikołay Daniłowicz podskarbi koronny [rozwinięcie podpisu według odpisu].
[Adres:] Mnie łaskawym Panom Burmistrzom Raicom y Mieszczanom Miasta Krola J° Mci Lwowa do oddania należy.
Reading notes
All 16 pages of the unit were examined. There are four separate letters; pp. 11–16 are later copies of them, not new letters. Original on pp. 4–5, copy on p. 12. Although it has the same date as the preceding letter, this one names a different place: Uchanie. The source date lines have been retained without attempting to reconcile the itinerary. This is a conditional promise to make a contract, not evidence that a lease was concluded. The chancery note on p. 5 could not be read in full.