Translation / modern text
Esteemed and distinguished sir, respected friend!
I renew my request and ask you to remember my business, redeem those goods and inform me whether they have already been redeemed and to whom I should deliver the money prepared and sealed for this purpose. You will truly do me a great favour. I shall endeavour to repay it in every way.
I also inform you that already [...] [a sentence concerning judicial business not fully read]. Please convey this news to the syndic and others. I do not write to him personally, being very busy during the courts, which sit in the morning and afternoon. His Most Serene Majesty enjoys good health. I commend my services [part of the formula uncertain].
Warsaw, 6 December 1645.
Ever ready to serve, [...] Guttinius.
[Address:] Maciej Hayder, Lviv councillor.
Original wording — transcription
Spectabilis et Mag[nifice] D[omi]ne et amice observ[andissi]me.
Petitionem meam reitero atque rogo [...] ut mei negotii sit memor velitque merces illas eximere et me facere certiorem utrum iam sunt exempta et cuinam pecunias paratas et obsignatas ea de causa extradere debeam. Profecto rem mihi gratissimam faciet. Quod beneficium omni modo referre curabo [...]. Cui denuntio quod iam [...] iudicatura est [odczyt niepewny]; novum quod placebit significari D[omi]no Syndico et aliis. Ad ipsum non scribo sum enim occupatissimus tempore iudiciorum quae terminantur mane et post meridiem. Serenissima Ma[iesta]s bene valet cuius [...] mea servitia defero. Varsaviae 6 Xbris 1645.
Ad officia paratissimus [...] Guttinius.
[Adres:] Spectabili et Mag[nifico] D. Matthiae Hayder Consuli Leopoliensi [...]
Reading notes
Pages 7–8 inspected: one letter and address. Xbris means December, not October. Date 6 December 1645. The courts passage is partly uncertain; no particular institution has been supplied. This letter contains no sum; 4,000 has not been imported from the preceding letter. A question about redemption does not confirm its completion.