Request from Jerzy Bogusław Fredro to Feliks Potocki for the apprehension of the convicted Marcin Waśniowski

[P. 2] 82 Most Illustrious Lord Castellan of Kraków, My Great Lord and Benefactor! fasc: 656 li a: Since the common fate of all in this Commonwealth depends on the protection of Your Grace, my Lord, and his salutary shield and authority, then all the more may my private [...] happiness [...] regarding my grievances, both in the courts of the Crown Tribunal and in the Commonwealth, be safely contained. Which has declined [...] from the memory of my father's merits, I desire, by presenting this account to the Honor of Your Grace, my Lord, also in me, his sincerely and steadfastly benevolent successor, to humbly beg for protection, so that Your Grace, my Lord, might deign to support me with your most powerful authority, so that I may [apprehend] my culprit, and what is more, my ward, who lurked not only for my health but for my very life, dealing a blow from those letters, against whom a sentencing verdict has already been passed in the Tribunal – that is, Marcin Waśniowski, along with other conspirators, Władysław Kondracki and Sadowski. But now it concerns only Waśniowski himself, who under the banners of His Serene Highness Prince Janusz Wiśniowiecki, Marshal [P. 3] of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, so close a relative of Your Grace, my Lord, serves in the army – so that the criminal does not escape, and the committed crime does not go unpunished, and others, due to the impunity of a bad example, do not run wild all the more freely – I think to safely pursue justice. For which favor, humbly supplicating Your Grace, my Lord and Benefactor, a second time (and it will be most effective if, by a private letter from Your Grace, my Lord, specially dispatched, His Highness Prince, under some pretext, so that the suspect suspects nothing, sends the aforementioned Waśniowski from those Lithuanian lands to Your Grace, my Lord, in Lwów), whose [fate] to the supreme court of Your Grace, my Lord, as much as holy justice allows, he will meanwhile restrain. Through which Your Grace, my Lord, [will provide] the old proofs of gratitude in my person towards the benevolent [...], and to me, as long as I live by God's will, along with my entire house, [I will remain] in eternal obligation in service [...]. With my congratulations I arrive, to the grace of Your Grace, my Lord, forever surrendering [P. 4] myself, I remain Your Most Illustrious Grace's, my Lord's, Gracious Lord and Benefactor's obedient and humble servant, Jerzy Bogusław Fredro, Castellan of Lwów [autograph] In Bybło, March 24, 1702. 2

[S. 2] 82 Iasnie Wielmozny M[o]sć Panie Kasztelanie Krakowski Panie Wielce M[o]sćy Panie y Dobrodzieiu fasc: 656 li a: Kiedy communis omnium, w tey Rzeczypospolitey fortuna, pendet à protectione W[aszej] K[rólewskiej?] [W[aszej] M[ości]?] M[ego] Pana, et praesidio, salutari Authoritas Iego, pogotowiu y moia prywatna, gyli talko wnet sie talk gabić? sczęsliwość zutesknioney czerney krzywdzie moiey, et in Iudicijs Tribunalu Koronnego, iak y Rzpltey, secure mieścić sie moze. Ktora podupad[ła?] ex memoria zasług Rodzica mego, Pragnę WKM Mego Pana Honori, et in me successore, szczyre y sta[te-] cznie zyczliwego, czyniąc relatum; Protectiey, nisko im- ploro, abyś WKM M[o]y Pan, validissima Authorita- te, wesprzec mnie raczył, zebym winowayce mego, a co wieksza Alumnum, ktory insidiabatur nie talko zdrowiu memu, ale y zyciu samemu, z Listow tu intentando ictum, na ktorym iuz convictio w Tribunale stanęła, to iest Marcina Wasniow- skiego, et alijs Coniuratis Władysławie Kondrackim y Sadowskim; Lecz teraz, o samym ieno talko Wasniowskim, ktory sub Signis Iasnie Oswieconego Xiązecia Jegomości Janusza Wiśniowieckiego, Marszałka [S. 3] W[ielkiego] X[ięs]twa Litewskiego, tak bliskiey Krwie WKM Mego Pana, w Woysku militat, ne effugiat scelera- tus, sponsumque crimen cedat impune, ac alij mali exempli Impunitate, liberius insaniant, secure myzlem repetere. Ktorey łaski WKM M[ości] M[e]mu Panu y Dobrodzieiowi, Unizenie iterum sup- plikuiąc (a bedzie efficacissima, gdy za prywatnym Listem WKM M[ości] Pana, specialiter ordynowan- nym, Xiąze Jmść, aliquo praetextu, ne suspiciatus praesentiat, z tamtych Kraiow Litewskich do WKM Mego Pana do Lwowa, pomienionego Wasniowskie- go wyprawi) ktorego supremo Arbitrio WKM Mego M[o]sć Pana, ile przy swiętey sprawiedliwości, inte- rim arcebit. Z ktorych WKM M[ó]y Pan, dawne w Osobie moiey, ku zyczliwemu, lubo iuz [skreślone: Zmarłemu Rodzicowi memu], documenta grati- tudinis, mnie zas quoad Deo vixero, y z całym Domem moim, eternam w odsłudze obligatią bo y sam [...]- tuicyj okazij, będzie ordinator. Z gra- tulatiami memi przybijam, WKM Mego M[o]sć Pana łasce, na zawsze oddaiąc [S. 4] się zostawam Iasnie W[ielmożne]go M[ości] P[an]a Mego M[iło]sciwego Pana y Dobrodzieia Uprzeymym y Unizonym sługą Jerzy Bogusław Fredro Kasztelan Lwowski [mp.] W Byble 24. Martij 1702 do. [W prawym górnym rogu ołówkiem: 2]