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Complaint of Michał Rożycki to Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski against the sub-starosta of Mościska
Michał Rożycki complains to the Voivode of Volhynia about the sub-starosta of Mościska and his wife, accusing them of withholding firewood, damaging buildings, and persecuting his wife. He asks the addressee for a written disciplinary intervention against the official.
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[P. 2]
Most Illustrious Lord Voivode of Volhynia,
My Lord, my Lord and Gracious Benefactor!
With great sorrow I write to Your [Grace], my gracious Lord, complaining about this merciless sub-starosta of Mościska, who neither provides firewood – as my wife writes to me – nor finishes this building, and has ruined it even more, as my wife writes in this letter, [...] regarding such misery of mine and my wife's. When I am afflicted by both cold and other hardships, on top of that, his own wife persecutes my wife, saying that I am the one who would accuse them before Your Grace, my Lord and Benefactor. It is clear, they feel [...] themselves, distributing firewood for free to whomever he sees fit – this I have seen with my own eyes
[P. 3]
when I was still there in Mościska. About the faithful services of both [...] at another time, and this, [in order] to finish as quickly as possible, he chose. His Grace, my Lord and Benefactor, will find out about this, God willing, upon arriving in Mościska; after all, there are many nobles there who can and must reveal his wicked services, if Your Grace, my Lord, so wishes. And I, again, almost with tears, renew my petition regarding my hardship: may Your Grace, my Benefactor, deign to order a letter to be written to him, let him leave me and his wife alone, for I would have to yield to them, and let him not withhold firewood and what is due [...]. Humbly, humbly I beseech my Benefactor, deign to [...] command the sub-starosta. Having nothing more to report now, only having committed myself to the usual grace and protection of my Lord, I end this, being the Most Illustrious Lord and my Gracious Benefactor's
[...]
lowest servant in all things
G. Michał Rożycki
by his own hand
[P. 4, address:]
To the Most Illustrious, My Greatly Gracious Lord and Benefactor, the Most Illustrious Lord Jan of Jabłonowo Jabłonowski, Voivode of Volhynia, Starosta of Świecie and Mościska, etc., my Lord and Benefactor
In Busk
[S. 2]
Jasnie Wielmozny M[ośći] Panie Woiewodo Wołynski
Panie, Panie, y Dobrodzieyu Miłościwy.
Z wielkim załem do Waszey Panu mego miłości-
wego piszę, uskarzaiąc sie na tego nie-
miłosiernego Podstarościego Mościskiego
ktory ani drew dac, iako zona domnie
pisze, ani tego budynku konczy, barziey
ieszcze poruinował iako w tey karcie zo-
na pisze, sa me ruiem [?], czego sie wqurtry
mać na taku moie y moiey zony biedę.
Kiedy y zimnem y inszym niedostat-
kiem iestem opatrzony do tego ieszcze
sama iego Jmość zone mi przesladuie, mo-
wiąc zebym ia ich miał udawać przed
WMiść M[ościm] Panem y Dobrodzieiem moim,
znac sie sami czuią w dymsie (iako wiel-
nie stiuru hu:) drew rozdawać egzemptu
komu rozumie, to ia oczyma moimi
[S. 3]
widział, kiedym jeszcze tam był w Mościskach.
O wiernych usługach oboyga dasz pan
co napisał w innym czassie, a o te co prędzey
konczyc obrał. Dowieść sie z tym JMść Pan y
Dobrodziy, da Pan Bog do Mościsk przyiechawszy,
wszak tam iest szlachy wiele, co mogą y muszą
rewelowac iego zydliwe usługi, ieżeli
WMść MPan zechce, a ia znowu o moim nie-
dostatku prawie z płaczem ponawiam
petytuą, chcicy Mność Dobrodziey ka-
zać napisać do niego, niechay mnie zaniesza
y Geymością swoią, bobym im musiał ustą-
pić y niechay drew y co nalezy nie broni,
iako to stwora zeby zapalił drew w gąb-
kać ch: nisko nisko upraszam Dobrodzieia
mego chcicy ody kazać. P. Podstarościemu
teraz więcey niemaiąc do oznaymienia, tyl-
ko iu zwykły łasce y protekcyey Panski[ey]
oddawszy, tym konczę zem iest
Jasnie Wielmoznego Pana y Dobrodźieia mego Miłościwego
W podtkaniam do deceni.
nanisssy wssytkim sługa
G. Michat Rozycki
mppa
[S. 4, adres:]
Jasnie Wielmoznemu Memu Wielce
Miłościwemu Panu y Dobrodźieiowi
J[aśnie] M[iłościwemu] Panu Janowi na Jabłonowie
Jabłonowskiemu Woiewodzie Wo-
łynskiemu, Staroscie Swieckiemu y Mo-
ściskiemu etc. Panu y Dobrodźieiowi memu
W Busku
Discrepancy with the inventory: the inventory states that the author is a servant of the Voivode of Ruthenia (Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski) and the letter is addressed 'to the voivode in Busk with a complaint against the starosta of Mościska'. In reality, the recipient is the son of the hetman – Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski, then Voivode of Volhynia and also Starosta of Mościska, and the complaint concerns his sub-starosta in Mościska (not the starosta). The day and year (December 16, 1699) come solely from the inventory card (perhaps read previously from a non-preserved attachment or annotation).
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