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Letter #4817

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Ermland (Warmia) Chapter
Heilsberg (Lidzbark), 1540-10-14

English register:

Dantiscus had instructed that the chapter should receive the resolutions of the most recent [Royal Prussian] Diet in Graudenz (Grudziądz), along with the contents of the royal mission given there to the provost [Paweł Płotowski]. He informs them that the subject of the upcoming diet will be taxation. He wishes that, having reviewed the materials sent, the chapter would inform him in advance of any actions he might undertake at the forthcoming session in the interest of the chapter and its subjects.

Dantiscus deems it appropriate to postpone until 1 December a site inspection of the intolerable construction (intolerabilis structura) [of a weir] serving the mill [on the Passarge (Pasłęka) river], as the matter cannot be discussed until the boundary between Ermland (Warmia) and Ducal Prussia has been reviewed in accordance with the agreement. He considers it his duty to take up this issue. Therefore, the chapter need neither request his involvement nor thank him so effusively for it.


            received 1540-10-16

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, in secretary's hand, GStA PK, XX. HA Hist. StA Königsberg, HBA, C 1a, K. 497

 

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Venerabilibus Dominis praelatis, canonicis et capitulo Varmiensi nostrae ecclesiae, fratribus sincere nobis dilectis

Ioannes Dei gratia episcopus Varmiensis

Venerabiles Domini, fratres sincere dilecti.

Quae in conventu nuper Graudentino acta sunt et ea, quae venerabilis dominus praepositus, nuntius tum regius, omnibus harum terrarum ordinibus ex mente serenissimae maiestatis regiae proposuit, ob id Fraternitatibus Vestris referri commisimus, ut quid de publica exactione, quae iterum postulatur, in futuris comitiis Fraternitatum Vestrarum illarumque subditorum nomine sit transigendum, edoceamur. Consulturae super iis igitur Fraternitates Vestrae, ut nobis temporius sententiam suam declarent, operae pretium esse putamus.

Ad conspiciendam illam intolerabilem molendinariam structuram ineptum nobis tempus est, quod Fraternitates Vestrae praescribunt, quandoquidem in eo quaedam pars finium nostrorum, quos granicies vocamus, inter nos et illustrissimum dominum ducem vicinum nostrum ex pacto erit recognoscenda. Satius itaque existimamus, ut hoc negotium usque ad primum diem proximi Decembris proferamus, modo sic Fraternitatibus Vestris ex re esse videatur.

Ceterum, quod Fraternitates Vestrae orant, ne coeptum studium tum ratione molae illius, tum etiam tuitionis iurium communis nostrae ecclesiae, destituamus, non gravate suscipimus neque tam nobis amplae debentur gratiae, quas Fraternitates Vestrae agunt, cum libenter faciamus ea, quae et officium, et nostra in Fraternitates Vestras benevolentia postulat.

Quas feliciter valere optamus.

Ex arce nostra Heylsberg, XIIII Octobris MDXXXX.