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Letter from Jakub Bartholdy to Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski regarding a loan and land

Jakub Bartholdy Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski, Voivode and General of the Ruthenian Lands (incorrectly listed in the inventory as: Voivode of Volhynia)
26 July 1700 · Świecie

Jakub Bartholdy informs Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski of his departure to Gdańsk to secure a loan of six thousand thalers and requests that Mr. Winarski provide a guarantee for the debt. He also requests the return of the land in Świecie that was taken from him and appeals for the renewal of an edict prohibiting townspeople from illegally mortgaging and selling meadows to the nobility.

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Translation / modern text

[P. 2] Most Illustrious and Noble Voivode, My Great Lord and Benefactor! Just as I have striven with all diligence throughout this time to please Your Lordship's eyes with virtue, in [...] labors, and with faithfulness in duty, so now, when Your Lordship's command has arrived, I do not wish to neglect any duty of obedience toward Your Illustriousness, my Lord and Benefactor. Setting out immediately for Gdańsk, although I am in failing health, I shall there strive earnestly to obtain from some Gdańsk merchant the sum of six thousand minted thalers on commission to tide us over, providing my own surety. And so that it may be certain regarding the credit, I humbly request that Your Illustriousness deign to order His Grace Mr. Winarski to commit himself to the merchant-creditor with his own promissory note for the repayment. Perhaps Your Illustriousness has in fresh memory how, at the time when Your Illustriousness, our Lord and Benefactor, was present here in Świecie [P. 3] while honoring you, I did not dare to trouble you about the commission for several thousand, yet I received for use the Old Town promised by your word, but immediately during my absence this land was taken from me and given and granted to one who, caring only for his own affairs, has never served nor will ever serve the common good or the starosty. Therefore, I humbly request Your Illustriousness to recover this land. I report herewith, as is my duty, that Your Illustriousness's edict, which restrains our townspeople from selling and mortgaging meadows to foreigners or the nobility, is received with great respect, with the exception of certain persons from the magistrate who, disregarding Your Illustriousness's strict prohibition, pawn, mortgage, and sell off meadows. Therefore, I humbly ask that Your Illustriousness, my Lord and our Gracious Benefactor, by a renewed edict to the magistrate, protect them from harm at the hands of the nobility, [P. 4] from whom the neighboring townsman suffers many arbitrary acts in the meadows; and now, at every beck and call, I report myself ready. Of the Most Illustrious Lord and Benefactor In Świecie, the 26th of July, 1700. the lowliest servant Jakub Bartholdy, signed by his own hand. [P. 5] [Address:] To the Most Illustrious and my Great Lord and Benefactor, His Grace the Voivode and General of the Ruthenian Lands, my Most Gracious Lord.

Original wording — transcription

[S. 2] Jasnie Wielmozny M[os]ci Panie Wojewodo Mnie Wielce M[os]ci Panie y Dobrodzieju Jakom się wszelaką pilnoscią starał, abych się przez te wszystkie czasy w Oczach Panskich upodo- bac mogł, cnotą y w ocsystych[?] Pracach y Wia- rą w Powinnosci, tak y teraz, kiedy Rozkaz Panski doszedł, niechce zadney obsequior[um?], ku W[aszej] Wielm[ożności] MMPanu y Dobrodzieju mego deserere chargey, y wybierając się, choc valetudinarius, e vestigio do Gdanska, będę się tam usilnie starał, iako te na Provizyą na karans Summę szesc Tysięcy bitych Tale- row zdobydz u iakiegos Kupca de Gdansku, inter- posita mea cautione, ktora, zeby de credito była secura, unizenie upraszam, abys W[asza] Wielm[ożność] MMPan raczył J[ego]M[ości] P[anu] Winarskiemu obligare, zeby Kupcowi Creditori kartą się swoią do wy- płacenia obligował. Mając w swieiey pamięci bydz moze, kiedym, W[aszej] Wielm[ożności] MM Pana y Dobrodzieja naszego, tu we Swieciu praesente[m] [S. 3] venerantes nie ważyłem się o prowyzyą od kilku Tysięcy uprzykrzyc, iednak Stare miasto Panskim słowem obiecane w zażywanie assecutus, ale in continenti za Niebytnosci tą Rolą mię odebrano, a conferowano y dano takiemu, ktory sua dunta- xat curans y Dobremu pospolitemu y Starostwu nigdy na przysłudze nie iest, y nie będzie, dla czego unizenie o tey Roli recuperatią W[aszej] Wielm[ożności] MM Pana upraszam. Donoszę przytym iako z powinnosci mojey, iz Edictum W[aszej] Wielm[ożności] MM Pana, ktore coercet Mieszczanow naszych ab alienatione et oppignoratione pratorum obce- mu, albo Szlachcie, wielką veneratią respi- citur, oprocz niektorych z Magistratu, nieuwaza- iąc Zakaz surowy W[aszej] Wielm[ożności] MM Pana fantuią, oppignu- ruią, alienuią Łąki, zaczym supplicuye pokornie abys W[asza] Wielm[ożność] MM Pan y Dobro- dziej Nasz Miłościwy, iterato Edicto do Ma- gistratu vindicares Hos ab iniuria Szlachty, [S. 4] od ktorey na Łąkach sąsiad Mieszczanin mul- ta licentiosa patitur, a teras ad nutum gotowym się pisze. Jasnie Wielm[ożnego] MM Pana y Dobrodzieja We Swieciu d[nia] 26 Julij 1700. najnizszym sługą Jakub Bartholdy mpp. [S. 5, adres:] Jasnie Wielmoznemu, a Me- mu Wielce M[oś]ci W[itnemu?] Panu, y Do- brodziejowi, J[ego] M[oś]ci Panu Woje- wodzie y Generałowi Ziem Ruskich, Memu Wielce M[oś]ci- wemu Panu.

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