Letter from Rector Bazyli Płaszczewski to the authorities of Lviv regarding the appointment of the director of the Lviv Colony

[P. 2] Noble, Illustrious and Distinguished Gentlemen, Most Respected Patrons! Our Alma Mater experiences a special proof of the kindness of the most noble city of Your Lordships, which, as you have long cherished, Your Lordships, you do not cease to protect the Lviv Colony incorporated into it. And so that it would not be deprived of its director, you requested of me by letter, Your Lordships, that I appoint a candidate, to which, acceding to your wishes, I would have sent him long ago. However, I could not send anyone there, hearing constant news of the plague among Your Lordships. Now, when there is certain news that, by the grace of God, the city has been freed from this danger, I appoint the excellent Master Antoni Torczyński, [P. 3] Doctor and Professor of Philosophy, Senior of the Poznań school, who, as a suitable person for that position, I believe, will win the favor of Your Lordships with his diligence and will reciprocate with due service the kindness that Your Lordships invariably show to our Alma Mater. For which I thank you greatly on behalf of the professors, and I also reciprocate with the kind friendship of our University, remaining Your Lordships' kind servant Fr. Bazyli Płaszczewski, Doctor and Professor of Sacred Theology, Canon of Krakow, etc., Rector of the Krakow University, by his own hand. Krakow, June 29, 1720

[S. 2] Nobiles Clarissimi & Spectabiles Domini Domini Patroni Observandissimi. Osobliwy Nobilissima Civitatis WM[ciów] Panow doznaie Alma Universitas Nostra affektu argument, ktorą iako ukochalisćie zdawna Wmb[ość?] Panowie, tak y oney incorporatam Coloniam Leopoliensem tueri nie przestaiéćie, ale áby nie była suo Directore Orbata, literis Wm[ciów] Panowie do mnie żądálisćie, ktorych annuendo votis dawno bym był Subiectum posłał ordynowac, iednák tam nikogo nie mogłem słysząc constantem o Powietrzu u Wm[ciów] Panow famam. Teraz gdy iuz pewná wiádomosc, ze od tego niebespieczenstwa prey łasce Bozey, iest uwolnione Miasto, ordynuię Excellentem M[agistrum] Antonium Torczynski, [S. 3] Ph[ilosoph]iæ D[octo]rem & Professorem Scholæ Posnaniensis Seniorem, ktory iako tam temu mieyscu zgodny, rozumiem ze y W[aszych] M[ościów] Panow łaskę applikacyą swoią skarbic sobie moze. A ten affekt powinnemi usługami zaiodzięczac, ktory W[asze] M[ości] Panowie in Almam Universitatem nostram nie odmiennie swiadczycie, za co iako wielce publico Professorum nomine dziękuię, tak reciprocè y z zyczliwą Universitatis nostræ oswiadczam się przyiaznią bedąc WMciom Panow Zyczliwy sługa M. Basilius Płaszczewski S[acrae] Th[eologiae] D[octor] & P[rofessor], Canonic[us] Cracov[iensis] &c. Universit[atis] Crac[oviensis] Rector m[anu] p[ropria] Cracoviæ 29 Junij A[nn]o 1720