Translation / modern text
[P. 2]
Most Magnanimous, Gracious Lords, Councilors of Lviv!
Although I should have, according to my promise, placed [the payment] into the hands of Your Graces, and that little debt of mine could not be repaid at the appointed time, I have therefore returned the contract to my close friends. For this reason, it seemed necessary to me to inform Your Graces of this and to request that I might appear before you at the upcoming deadline, for which I ask Your Graces once again. Therefore, you will always find in me a man willing and well-disposed to your every command. I humbly submit myself to the grace of Your Graces. Given in Mszana, on the 20th of August, 1636.
Your Graces', my gracious lords', well-wishing friend and servant,
Joachym Krauzowski, by his own hand
[P. 3, address:]
To be delivered to the Most Magnanimous Their Graces, the Lords, and their good Their Graces, the Lords Councilors of the city of Lviv.
Original wording — transcription
[S. 2]
Msciwie Wielmoz[ni] Msc[i]wi Panowie Raycy Lwowscy
Acżem ja powinien według obietnice w ręce Msc[i] M[o]sc[i] panow
ze tam ten dłużek moy na czas naznaczony niemogł bydź oddan
dla thego restitui[ł]em Kontrakt zwirzchnym moym Przyiaciołom
dla czo zdało mi sie za rzeczą potrzebną oznaymić to WM[ościo]m
I prosić abym sie na rok przypadaiący przed nie mogł wnieść o
co i powtornie proszę WM[ości]. Za czym mnie sam na
każde rozkazanie sw[e]go chętnego i życzliwego sobie zawsze
znaydziecie Do WMscij łaskij pokor[nie] sie oddaię. Datt[um]
We mszanie d 20 Augusti A[nn]o 1636
W[aszych] M[ości] M[oich] M[ościwych] Panow życzliwy przyiaciel
y sługa
Joachym Krauzowski z[ręką] w[łasną]
[S. 3, adres:]
Msciw[ie] Wielmoz[nym] Ichm[o]sc Panom y swym
jako dobrym Ich Msc[iom] Panom Raycom
miasta Lwowa oddać
Reading notes
The inventory contains an erroneous year '16356' (an obvious typo for 1636). The inventory also states that the author asks for the return ('повернути йому орг...'), whereas in the text the author writes that he himself returned the contract ('restitui[ł]em Kontrakt zwirzchnym moym Przyiaciołom') due to the inability to pay the debt on time and asks for the possibility to appear ('wnieść się') at the upcoming deadline/year. On p. 3, a wafer seal is preserved.
