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Letter #124

[Ioannes DANTISCUS] to [Samuel MACIEJOWSKI]
Heilsberg (Lidzbark), [1543]-12-01

English register:

The city councillors of Gdańsk (Danzig) have written to Dantiscus to express their dissatisfaction with the delay caused by the duke in Prussia [Albrecht von Hohenzollern]. He failed to forward the letter from the younger king [Sigismund Augustus], in which the monarch intercedes with the elder king [Sigismund I Jagiellon] on behalf of the two mayors [Barthel Brand and Tiedemann Giese Jr], via the same messenger who had delivered the letter. That letter is now being forwarded, along with a request to enclose with it Dantiscus’ letters to the king and to the present addressee. Dantiscus asks that the defendants be informed of the time and place of their appearance before the beginning of the Diet of the Kingdom and that they be treated with leniency, which he will elaborate on in a letter the defendants will bring with them.




Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 16th-century, APG, 300, 53, 268, p. 211-212

 

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Reverendissime etc.

Scripserunt mihi per hunc nuntium spectabiles domini magistratus Gedanensis dolenter ob moram, quae hinc incidit, ferentes, quod illustrissimus dominus dux in Prussia etc. litteras serenissimae maiestatis regiae iunioris in commendationem duorum dominorum praeconsulum scriptas non eadem traiectione per eundem nuntium, qui eas accepit, ad serenissimam regiam maiestatem seniorem dederit. Quas igitur paulo ante sibi redditas modo per hunc veredarium mittunt meque impense rogarunt, ut cum illis meas ad serenissimam maiestatem regiam et ad Reverendissimam Dominationem Vestram iungerem, quod quidem feci non gravate, ut is, qui iam tandem libenter huius causae felicem viderem exitum. Quapropter studiosissime oro, apud serenissimam maiestatem regiam velit operam suam interponere, ut dominis citatis ante tempus comitiorum regni locus et dies, quantum fieri potest, largior statuatur, quem in tanta viarum intercapedine absque magna molestia consequi valeant. Illisque postquam advenerint (ut litterae meae, quas ferent, uberius sunt petiturae) pro mutuo inter nos amore et benevolentia, cuius sum erga Dominationem Vestram Reverendissimam observantissimus, se facilem et benignum patronum exhibere eosque apud se gratiosos favorabiliter tractare velit. Quemadmodum mihi de Dominatione Vestra Reverendissima persuadeo certissime. Cui me una cum illis summopere commendo atque omnia precor faustissima.

Ex Heilsberg, prima Decembris.