Letter #2628
[Ioannes DANTISCUS] to [Stanisław HOZJUSZ (HOSIUS)]Heilsberg (Lidzbark), 1543-01-29
English register:
Dantiscus dispatched the royal envoy Krzysztof Konarski on the orders of the Bishop of Płock [Samuel Maciejowski]. He gave the envoy a gelding received from the addressee, as well as letters to the city council and his friends in Gdańsk (Danzig), so that he could obtain a length of Lund cloth and fifty Prussian marks.
Dantiscus assures the addressee that he will not doubt his integrity, regardless of what the syndic [Konrad Lagus] may declare, despite the significant promises made by Lagus to the Gdańsk City Council and to the defendants [Tiedemann Giese Jr and Barthel Brandt]. Dantiscus affirms that he has done everything in his power and duty, and was always guided by loyalty to religion and the king, not by personal preferences. Nevertheless, he awaits with concern what position the royal court may adopt. He asks to be informed both about this matter and about the reaction to the reply from the Council [of Royal Prussia] given at the most recent [Royal Prussian] Diet. He assumes that the addressee has already received the witness testimonies, delivered by the messenger who set out on 9 January.
The previous day, Mikołaj Loka was installed as canon of Ermland (Warmia), despite the obstacles posed by his opponents. Dantiscus managed to overcome these by sending the administrator of Allenstein (Olsztyn) [Achatius Trenck] to the chapter. Meanwhile, a rumour is circulating in the diocese that the patrons of the proscribed individual [Alexander Sculteti] are slandering Dantiscus’ nephew [Kaspar Hannau] in Rome. Dantiscus asks the addressee for any news on the matter, as well as for a copy of the king’s [Sigismund I Jagiellon’s] letter to the four cardinals [Gian Pietro Carafa, Juan Álvarez y Alva de Toledo, Pietro Paolo Parisi, and Bartolomeo Guidiccioni]. If he learns anything new, he will dictate another letter as soon as his messenger returns from court. He apologizes for pestering the recipient with his frequent correspondence.
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Venerabilis Domine, frater carissime.
Salutem et felicitatem.
Nobilem dominum Cr[is]tophorum Conarsky nuntium regium ad eum modum, ut voluit Reverendissim[us] dominus Plocensis, a me dimisi dedique illi equum canhterium, quem a Dominatione Vestra habui, litterasque ad magistratum et amicos Gedanu[m] eunti, ut stamen panni Lundensis et marcas 50 nostras ad reverendissimi domini Plocensis et meam commendationem assequi possit etc.
De animi Dominationis Vestrae integritate non est, quod dubitem, quicquid etiam syndicus attulerit, qui de se magistratui et citatis plurima prolixe pollicitus est. Ego, quod in me fuit quodque religioni et serenissimae maiestati regiae debui, praestiti. Ad id me certe nulla affectio, sed nuda induxit fides, quam ad hunc modum habens, exonerata non est, quod me angit, ut quodcumque etiam fieri aula voluerit, exspecto, tamen cum nuntio meo, quid ea in re sit actum et quomodo dominorum consiliariorum responsum hinc ex conventu novissimo placuerit, de his ut me Dominatio Vestra non gravate certiorem reddat, oro. Dicta testium Dominatio Vestra a nuntio meo, qui 9 huius hinc exivit, iam, ut reor, accepit.
Possessio domino Nicolao Locca superiori die apud ecclesiam data est, quam adversarii in capitulo praeposteris ac odiosis rationibus nixi suspenderant, eam suspensionem misso ad capitulum domino administratore Allensteinensi solvi, dataque est iam integra possessio. Commenti sunt fotores proscri[p]ti (quod hic apud ecclesiam iactatur) contra nepotem meum in Urbe nescio quod crimen falsi. De eo si quid Dominatio Vestra ac[ce]perit, significet, exemplumque regiarum litterarum ad quattuor illos cardinales ad me, quaeso, mittat. Si quid postea se obtulerit, quamprimum nuntius meus ex aula redierit iterum dictabo. Quodque illi toties tot scriptionibus molestus sim, patienter, quaes[o], ferat.
Forte se aliquando occasio accommodabit, qua Dominatio Vestra b[ene]volentiam et gratitudinem meam erga se pro tot susceptis laboribus non aulice, sed re ipsa agnoscet.
Quam felicissime valere cupio.
Datae ut supra.