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Jan Zamoyski to the Lviv City Council regarding the assault on Jewish subjects

Jan Zamoyski (Voivode of Sandomierz) My Gracious Lords, Councilors of Lviv, My Gracious Lords and Friends [Magistrate of the City of Lviv]
May 23, 1664 · Zwierzyniec

Jan Zamoyski intervenes with the Lviv authorities regarding the assault and robbery of property committed by soldiers against Jewish merchants from his estates. He calls on the magistrate to curb the lawlessness and announces that he will seek compensation for the victims through legal channels.

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Translation / modern text

[P. 2] My Gracious Lords, Councilors of Lviv, My Gracious Lords and Friends. Just as I cannot condone what that lawlessness has done to the Lviv Jews in the suburb, so when my Jewish subjects arrived from [...] my towns, complaining about how many valuable items and horses were taken in that robbery, and furthermore, while tending to their trade, they had to fall into ruin, beaten by the company for ten [...], I must sympathize with their misfortune and seek a way for my subjects to obtain compensation for the lost items through a further court decision. As even now, intimidated [...] they live in the city, [...] they turn to me so that I, as a senator and [...] now [...] might be their defense. Knowing that neighborly duties [...] should be maintained, I kindly warn you not to allow similar excesses and oppression of these people, giving no occasion for them or for us to complain about [...], to whose friendship I commit myself along with [...]. In Zwierzyniec, on the 23rd of May, 1664. Your Graces' kind servant and friend, [signature:] in full [...] and friend Jan Zamoyski

Original wording — transcription

[S. 2] M[o]sci Panowie Radni Lwowscy Moi M[iłościw]i P[anowie] y Przyiaciele. Iakoć nikt pochwalić niemogę, co swawola tamta z Żydami Lwowskiemi na przedmieściu vcżyniła, tak kiedy w [...] zonych z Miasteczek mo- ich przybyli Żydzi poddani moy, vskarząc się, ile wtamtym rabunku rzeczy lepieyszey y koni zabrano, do tego [idąc] za ich handlach vpaść musieli, przez dziesiąć [...] pobici od towarzystwa, temu nieszczęsciu ich condolere muszę, a sposobu szukac iakoby moy pod- dani przez dalszą Sądu decyzyią nagrodę zgubionych rzeczy mieli. Iakoż y teraz iesce, przez straszeni [?] ci tancy cowoanym w mieście miey- szkaią, całisnemi przysięgami vaborwania ich podobne do mnie se recurrent, abym iako Senator a colleg[...] teraz [...]ci patrocinio im był, wiedząc że [obowiązki?] Sąsiada intra [regia?] zachować powinni, przestrzegam życzliwie, abyście niedopusczali podo- bnych excessow y oppressyi tych ludzi, niedaiąc okazyey ani im ani nam conquerendi na [...] ci, ktorych przyiaźni oddaię się razem z [...] W Zwierzyńcu d[nia] 23 Maij 1664 [lub 1684]. W[aszeciom] [życzliwy] [służący] [i] P[rzyjaciel] [podpis:] wpelny[m] [...] [i] P[rzyjaciel] Jan Zamoyski

Reading notes

Both provided images represent the same scan of a single letter sheet (without the attached address leaf). The inventory provides an incorrect year date of 1684 – Jan 'Sobiepan' Zamoyski, Voivode of Sandomierz (the signatory of the letter writing from Zwierzyniec), died in 1665, and the year entry in the date stamp most likely indicates '1664'. The matter concerns a pogrom/assault on Jews in the Lviv suburb, including Zamoyski's subjects from his towns, and the looting of their property and horses.

Scope of the edition: Automatic transcription (15.10.2026), not verified against the original by a human; illegible fragments are marked [...].

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