Translation / modern text
[P. 2]
Noble and Illustrious Gentlemen, Most Respected Gentlemen!
I apologize most humbly that due to my occupations I did not thank the Noble Gentlemen Benefactors earlier for the temporary sum of 30 red zlotys sent to me, delivered by their Graces the Delegates on account of the work I have undertaken in the affairs of the entire City, which I hereby make up for and thank you for the aforementioned sent sum. I expect, by the grace of the Noble Magistracy, that the promised remainder will be effectively paid. Commending myself to the gracious memory of the Noble Gentlemen Benefactors, I remain at their every disposal with the due declaration that I am the Noble and Illustrious Gentlemen's Most Respected
November 19, 1766, Warsaw
most humble servant,
J. [T.?] Przezdziecki, by his own hand
[P. 3, address:]
To the Noble and Illustrious: President, Councilors, and the entire Magistracy of the City of His Royal Majesty, Metropolis of Ruthenia, Lviv, Most Respected Gentlemen, in Lviv.
Original wording — transcription
[S. 2]
Nobiles ac Spectabiles D[omi]ni
D[omi]ni Coll[endissi]mi.
Jak nayunizeniey przepraszam, ze dla zatrudnienia moiego
prędzey niepodziękowałem Szlachetnym WM[ci]om Panom
Dobrodzieiom za przysłane mi quantum pro interim
# 30. oddane przez ręce Ichm[ciów] Ablegatow, in vim pracy
w sprawach Miasta całego przezemnie podiętey, co teraz
kompensuię, y za pomienione quantum przesłane
dziękuię, spodziewaiąc się po Łasce Szlachetnego Magi-
stratu, iz przyobiecana resztę zisći skutecznie, ktorey
Łaskawey pamięci y mnie samego Szlachetnych
WM[ciów] Panow Dobrodzieiow poleciwszy zostawam
na wszelkie ich rekwizycie z powinnym wyznaniem
iz iestem Nobilium ac Sp[ec]t[a]b[ili]um D[omi]norum V[est]rorum
D[omi]norum Coll[endissi]morum
de 19. 9bris 1766. Varse [Varsaviae]
nayniszszym sługą
J. [T.?] Przezdziecki mppria
[S. 3, adres:]
Nobilibus expectabilibus
Praeconsuli Consulibus,
totiq[ue] Magistratui Civit[ati]s
S[acrae] R[egiae] M[aies]ttis Metropolis Russiae
Leopoliens[is] D[omi]nis Coll[endissi]mis
Leopoli.
Reading notes
Letter from the plenipotentiary (provisor/advocate) of the Lviv magistracy in Warsaw, thanking for the advance payment of 30 ducats/red zlotys (# 30) delivered by the city's envoys (ablegati). The author's initial in the signature looks like 'J.', read in the inventory description as 'T.' (Т. Пшездзецький). The abbreviation '9bris' stands for Novembris (November).
