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Jan Jerzy Przebendowski to the Lviv Magistrate regarding the mission of counter-registrar Lewingston

Jan Jerzy Przebendowski, Crown Treasurer Magistrate of the city of Lviv [Nobiles ac Spectabiles Domini]
15 Junij 1720 Anno · Straszęcin

Crown Treasurer Jan Jerzy Przebendowski announces the arrival of Treasury counter-registrar Lewingston in Lviv to discuss matters concerning public revenues. He requests the Magistrate to grant the envoy a prompt audience and to reach a favorable and decisive resolution.

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Translation / modern text

[P. 2] Noble and Distinguished Gentlemen, Honorable Friends! In sending Mr. Lewingston, counter-registrar of the Crown Treasury, to the city of Lviv, I have given him the commission and instruction to discuss with the noble Magistrate of Your Graces, my Lords, certain demands of the Crown Treasury concerning public revenues, and to settle them with the greatest fairness and satisfaction. Therefore, I request Your Graces, my Lords – while expressing my due respect – that he be received by Your Graces, that he may obtain a prompt audience, and subsequently a favorable and decisive resolution, remaining In Straszęcin, on the 15th of June, 1720. Your Graces', my Lords', well-wishing friend Przebendowski Crown Treasurer

Original wording — transcription

[S. 2] Nobiles ac Spectabiles Domini. Domini Amici Venerandi. Posyłaiąc Pana Lewingstona Contraregeſtranta Skarbu ko- ronnego do miasta Lwowa, Dałem mu Commiſsyą y In- strukcyą, z Szlachetnym Magistratem W[aszych] M[ościów] M[oich] Panow nie- ktore Skarbu Koronnego respektem Prowentow Publicznych desideria umowic, y z iak naylepszą słusznosci satysfakcyą ufun- dowac, Więc aby u WM[ościów] Panow był akceptowany, y prędką mogł miec audyencyą, a potym pomyslną y Cathegoryczną resolucyą, Upraszam WM[ościów] M[oich] Panow, przy wyrażeniu należytey moiey obserwancyi, Zostaiąc W Straszęcinie d[ie] 15 Junij 1720 Anno. W[aszych] M[ościów] M[oich] Panow życzliwy Przyiaciel Przebendowski Podskarbi Koronny

Reading notes

Scan 1 is an inventory card. The letter is preserved in its entirety on one page (p. 2), with the old pagination '3' in the upper right corner. The date in the inventory was distorted by OCR ('czerwca що ДО 1120, 24'), but is correct on the inventory card: 15 June 1720.

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

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