Letter #3300
[Ioannes DANTISCUS] & [part of the Royal Prussia' Council] to Samuel MACIEJOWSKI[Heilsberg (Lidzbark)?], 1547-12-21
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The addressee will learn from the letter of the councillors to the king [Sigismund I] what they have written to him regarding the hostile intentions of the Master [of the Order] in Germany [Wolfgang Schutzbar Milching], of which they have been informed. They have advised the monarch to summon the duke [Albrecht von Hohenzollern] to the current diet of the Kingdom and to deliberate with him on this matter. They approach the addressee with a request to support their initiative before the king.
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Ad dominum Cracoviensem
Reverendissime etc.
Quae de moliminibus magistri in Germania erga has terras ad serenissimam maiestatem regiam scripsimus, et quid ad nos de illis perlatum sit, ex litteris regiis Reverendissima Dominatio Vestra non obscure intelliget. Cum itaque necesse sit, ut maturius provideamus, ne quid damni nobis ob vicinum malum inferatur, consulimus serenissimae maiestati regiae, ut illustrissimum dominum ducem, quem una nobiscum negotium hoc contingit, in hunc conventum Regni ad se venire iubeat, et cum illo de imminentibus periculis consulat. Hoc ut Reverendissimae Dominationis Vestrae opera , quam apud serenissimam maiestatem regiam nostro nomine interponere velit, ita fiat, plurimum rogamus. Necessitas enim et experientia illustrissimi principis plura consilia subministrabit et inveniet, quam nobis forsan in istis angustiis possent occurrere.
Reverendissimam Dominationem Vestram, cui nos intime commendamus, cupimus diutissime feliciter valere .