Condolences from François Mollo to Prince Konstanty Sobieski following the death of his father

[P. 2] My Lord Prince, None of the most zealous and faithful servants of the King of glorious memory, the Father of Your Royal Highness and my most gracious Patron, could have received the lamentable news of the death of His Royal Majesty with greater consternation and sadness, [P. 3] than that which I feel with all my heart. Driven by the zeal I have always cherished for the service of His Royal House, I take the liberty and honor to mourn at the feet of Your Royal Highness the loss that has been suffered, along with all of Christendom and his faithful servants, among whom I may boast without presumption that I am one of the most zealous. I have also endeavored to remind the public of this in an article which Your Royal Highness will find in the attached newspaper, and I hope to find under the protection of Your Royal Highness's grace that which I have just lost, assuring you that throughout my life I shall remain with the most humble submission, zeal, and fidelity, Amsterdam, July 5, 1696 My Lord Prince, Your Royal Highness's most humble, most obedient, and most faithful servant F. Mollo [P. 4, address:] To His Royal Highness Prince Konstanty in Warsaw

[S. 2] Monseigneur Aucuns des plus zellés et des plus fideles seruiteurs du Roij de Glorieuse Memoire Pere de V[ot]re Altesse Royalle et mon Patron tres Clement, n'ajant pü receuoir aueq vne plus grande Consternation et affliction, la deplorable nouuelle de la Mort de Sa Majesté [S. 3] que celle que je resents de tout mon Coeur, et poussé du zele que j'aj tousjours eu pour le seruice de Sa Maison Royalle, Je me donne la liberté, et l'honneur d'epleurer aux Pïeds de V[ot]re A[ltesse] R[oyalle] la perte qu'elle vient de faire, aueq toute sa Chrestienneté, et ses fideles seruiteurs, parmis lesquels je puis me vanter sans pre= somption d'estre des plus zellés, et j'ay eu soin d'en faire souuenir le Publiq dans l'article que V[ot]re A[ltesse] R[oyalle] trouuera dans la cy- jointe Gazette, et j'espere de retrouuer dans la Protection de V[ot]re Grace de V[ot]re A[ltesse] R[oyalle] ce que je vient de perdre, l'assurant que je seraj toute ma vie aueq la plus humble Soumission, zele et fidelité Amsterdam le 5. Juillet 1696. Monseigneur V[ot]re Alt[esse] Royalle [Le] plus humble et plus obeissant et le plus fidelle seruiteur F. Mollo [S. 4, adres:] A Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur Le Prince Constantin Varçouie