Translation / modern text
[P. 2]
Most Illustrious, my Dear Sir and Benefactor!
Day before yesterday, having left Your Grace, my Gracious Lord and Benefactor [...], I found news at the court that [...] had succumbed, having issued a letter [...] to the court of our Illustrious King, only having gone with the Most Serene Prince Chancellor Radziwiłł to the Starosta [...], that it was at the instigation of the Voivode of Kraków that the banner was given to someone else. He told me what he was sending to my [...] His Grace the Lord completely denied, and indeed said that he would intervene so that
[P. 3]
this banner would not be taken away from my brother. Therefore, I submit this petition for the support of Your Grace, my Lord and Benefactor [...], for it is indeed true that during the Vienna expedition he raised the banner at his own expense and has had much trouble maintaining it; and now, when he is coming into his property in these parts, then apart from [...] the Trembowla estates [...] from all his estates he had to spend income to such an extent to maintain
[P. 4]
the banner and stations for the Fatherland. My brother therefore raises the issue of honor, and rightly so, for it would have been better to resign completely than to suffer contempt and give it to someone else. [...] therefore I greatly beseech you to deign to help him with your grace on this occasion. For which all the brothers together with their brethren shall be obliged [...].
Your Grace's, my Gracious Lord and Dear Benefactor's, obedient and humble servant and obedient brother,
Aleksander Jan Potocki,
Chamberlain of Halicz
In Dmytrowicze,
on October 6, 1699
[Address:]
To the Most Illustrious Lord of Jabłonów and General of the Ruthenian Lands, Bracław, Grand Hetman of the Crown, Stanisław Jabłonowski, Lord and Benefactor, most gracious Benefactor.
Original wording — transcription
[S. 2]
Jasnie wielmozny moy Kochany M[ości] P[anie] Dobrodzieiu
Dnia onegdayszego odszed[w]szy od W[aszej] M[ości] M[oiego] M[iłościwego] P[ana] Dobrodzieia
twa zastałem w dworze nowinę iz
[Purgatoriey?] miy Jmć vległa, wy-
dawszy cartę wpys[?] do dworu naszego
Jasnego Krola tylko udawszy się
z J[aśnie] O[świeconym] X[ię]ż[ę]ciem Jmcią Kanclerzem[?] Radziwiłłem do
Jm[ci] Pana Starosty temu reka, ze to
Jm[ci] P[ana] Woj[ewody] Krakowskiego instynck,
Chorągiew temu ynszemu dano. On
mi mowit sobie co posyłał do
mego [...] penitent[?] wcale J[ego] M[ość]
Pan wniwecz negawit y owszem po-
wiadał ze instanciey wnysie, aby
[S. 3]
nieoddawano tey Chorągwi od Brata mego.
Zaczym tey Supplikaciey o Instanciey W[aszej]
M[ości] M[oiego] Pana przy wroconey temu pere-
rantey do mnie Dobrodzieia, gdyz prze-
cie prawdziwa, ze podczas wiedenskiey
włosney expensy kosztem se zaciągnął
Chorągiew y miełć utrapienia ma trzyma-
iąc ią, teraz zas gdyz w tych kraiach
do Fortuny przychodzi, to oprocz bro-
ią dobr S. Trembowelska ciskie[?] [...]
wszytkich swoich dobr incydenta do
takiey sednie miał syn trzymać
[S. 4]
Chorągiew y Stacie Oyczyznie. Zakłada więc
Jm[ć] P[an] Brat puncta honoris, et quidem
iusté, bo lepiey było zmnieysz[?] iść cale anizeli
wzgardy komu inszemu dać. Mitlemie[?]
tedy steraną[?] wielce upraszam abys łaską
swą w tey okazyey raczył onemu adesse.
Z ktorą wszyscy Bracia wespoł z brać-
cią swoią obligowani będziemy stolic-[?]
ność iść ktorą iesteś.
W[aszej] M[ości] M[oiego] M[iłościwego] Pana Kochanyego
Dobrodzieia powolny y uni-
zony sługa y powolny brat
A[leksander] Jan Potocki
p[odkomorzy] h[alicki] [mpp.]
W Dmitrowiczach
d[nia] 6 8bra 1699
[S. 5, adres:]
Jasnie Wielmoznemu Jmć Panu
na Jabłonowie y Generalowi Ziem
Ruskich Bracławskiemu Hetma-
nowi Wielkiemu Koronnemu Stanisła-
wowi Jabłonowskiemu Panu y Do-
brodziejowi wielce m[iłościwemu] Dobrodziejowi
[pieczęć lakowa]
Reading notes
The inventory card incorrectly identifies the recipient's name as 'Iwan' (Jan) Jabłonowski – the address on p. 5 clearly indicates Stanisław Jabłonowski, Grand Hetman of the Crown and Voivode of Ruthenia. The author of the letter is Aleksander Jan Potocki (signed as 'A Jan Potocki', with the office of Chamberlain of Halicz: 'p. h.'). The letter concerns efforts to retain the banner for the author's brother.
