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Letter from Tomasz Sakowski to Wojciech Zimnicki regarding a dispensation for priestly ordination

Tomasz Sakowski Wojciech Zimnicki (Alberto Zimnicki, civitatis Leopoliensis scabinus vel officialis consularis notarius)
15 octob[ris] A. 1635 · Topola [Topoli]

Tomasz Sakowski asks the Lviv scribe Wojciech Zimnicki to obtain from the papal legate a letter authorizing the reception of priestly ordination outside the canonical time and to grant a release from canonical impediments. He provides his personal details, including his age and diocesan affiliation, while assuring that all costs will be covered.

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Translation / modern text

[P. 2] + Gracious Sir Scribe, My Lord and Benefactor. Having no prior acquaintance with Your Grace, my Gracious Lord, yet having long heard in the famous city of Lviv of the great fame, humanity, and benevolence of Your Grace, my Gracious Lord, toward poor people, to whose number I also belong, I have dared to approach Your Grace, my Benefactor, with this my humble request, as a noble man and one greatly esteemed by honorable people in the Church, humbly asking Your Grace, my Gracious Lord, not to begrudge your effort and to undertake the endeavor to obtain for me from His Grace the Legate a letter for the reception of all minor and major orders from any bishop outside the canonical time, so that I might become a priest within four or five [weeks?], having included in this letter, that it be also added (for which I humbly and most earnestly ask), that I have been released from the banns, canonical irregularities, and excommunications; for Your Grace, my Gracious Lord, knows well how one must proceed in such an act, and I am not at all [...] [?]. For which I humbly ask with readiness for service, may God reward you, and later I, having stood on my own feet, should serve and repay this favor of Your Grace, my Benefactor, in every respect in due time, to which I now commit and commend myself most diligently with my humble services. Given from Topola, October 15, 1635. Your Grace's, my Gracious Lord and Benefactor's humble servant and well-wisher of all good Tomasz Sakowski, servant of Doctor Dominik. It came to my mind to inform Your Grace, my Gracious Lord, that I am already in my 37th year. Also, that I am from the Diocese of Chełm, near Zamość, but that matters little, for I have spent much time, namely two years, in Lviv, in [...] in the local and Starowieś schools. Thirdly, if His Grace the Legate would by no means consent to ordination outside the canonical time, then I pray to God that I be released from canonical irregularities and excommunications. As for the expenses, I will pay them here to Mr. Szymon. Please, send these things as soon as possible to Lviv, to Mr. Szymon at the Chancellery. [P. 3] [Address:] + To the noble and venerable man, Mr. Wojciech Zimnicki, alderman of the city of Lviv or official council scribe, my highly esteemed friend and benefactor, let this be delivered. From Sakowski regarding [?] for dimissorial letters and dispensation for minor orders.

Original wording — transcription

[S. 2] + M[oś]ciwy Panie Pisarzu Panie y Dobrodzieiu moy. Niemaiąc zadnego zachowania z W[aszą] M[oś]cią Moim M[oś]ciwym Panem, okoli iednak z dawna słysząc, w sławnym mieście Lwowskim o wielkiey sta- wie, ludzkości, y dobroczynnościach W[asze]ć Mego M[oś]ciwego Pana, na przeciw ubogim ludziom, e quorum numero ia też, ważyłem się z tą proźbą moią ubogą udać się pod łaskę W[asze]ć mego Dobrodzieia, iako człowieka zacnego, y w kościele w ludzi zacnych wielce wziętego, pro- sząc pokornie W[asze]ć, abyś W[asze]ć moy M[oś]ciwy pan, złaskawiey nie ra- czył żałować swoiey pracy, y starania podiąć, wyprawić mi u J[ego] M[oś]ci Księdza Legata literas, ad minores et maiores omnes ordi- nes sacros suscipiendos a quovis Antistite extra tempus, abym mogł intra quatuor vel quinq[ue] [hebdomadas?] zostać kapła- nem, włożywszy to w litery, aby też przydano (o co uniżenie y iako naybardziey proszę) a bannis, irregularitatib[us] et excommunicat[ionibus] liberari me esse liberatum; gdyż W[asze]ć moy M[oś]ciwy pan wie o tym dobrze, iakim sposobem do takiego aktu trzeba przedsięwziąć a iam wcale się z [...] postulavit [?]. O co rad y posługi rad uniżenie proszę, Pan Bog nagrodzi, a potym ia zostawszy człowiekiem powinienem tę łaskę W[asze]ć Mego Dobrodzieia z kożdey miary cza- su swego, odsługiwać y odwdzięczać, do ktorey się y teraz z uniżonemi posługami memi iako naypilniey oddaię y zalecam. Dati Ztopoli. 15 octob[ris]: A. 1635. W[asze]ć Mego M[oś]ciwego Pana y Dobrodzieia Uniżony sługa y wszego dobra życzliwy Thomasz Sakowski sługa Pana Dominika do- ktora. [Dopisek na dole po lewej:] Hoc mihi venit in mentem, oznaymić W[asze]ć M[oś]ci Me- mu M[oś]ciwemu Panu, iż ia iuż agro 37. an- nu[m] [a]go. Item, iż ia iestem z dyecezyey Chełmskiey, od Zamościa, ale mało na tym należy, gdyż ia tak wiele l. 2. lat trawił we Lwowie, w klatkach [?] w szkołach tuteyszych y starowieyskich. Tertium, ieżeliby też Mość Ksiądz Legat niechciał żadną miarą extra tempus pozwolić święcić się, tedy abym dla Boga proszę, ab irregularitatib[us] et excommunicationib[us] był lib[eratus]. [Dopisek w kolumnie obok podpisu:] (Stronę expensy, ondam tu Panu Szymonowi. [Dopisek na lewym marginesie:] Proszę, iako nayprędzey racz te rzeczy przesłać do Lwowa, do Pana Szymona do Kancellaryey. [S. 3, adres:] + Nobili ac Honorato Viro, D[omi]no Alberto Zimnicki, civitatis Leopo- liensis Scabino vel officiali consu- laris Notario, amico et benefactori meo observandissimo pateant. [Adnotacja kancelaryjna/późniejsza:] Od Sakowskiego w sprawie [?] o Dimissoriales et dispensatione minoribus.

Reading notes

Page 1 is the inventory card of the CDIAL. The letter is on p. 2 (text) and p. 3 (address and trace of a wax seal). The author, Tomasz Sakowski, describes himself as a servant of 'Doctor Dominik', writes from the village of Topola (or Ztopola), providing his age (37 years) and his affiliation with the Diocese of Chełm.

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