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[S. 2]
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My Greatly and Heartily Beloved
My Lord Brother!
As God lives, I love Your Grace so much that I cannot love more than myself, and I deny that proverb that selfish love begins with oneself. When it draws strength from me, it is renewed in Your Grace. My beloved My Lord Brother, surely God knows that our disagreements have deserved this punishment of our parents. Surely God knows, and now, after confessions, to which we approach without having forgiven our brother – woe to us if we receive punishment from the Lord God! It is time, time for repentance, since we have suffered so much damage to the estate after our father; the income is not enough, one must marry, and yet in [...] it entangles. May the Lord God punish me in my health if I am not well-disposed toward Your Grace! What will come of this further [...], who in order to [...] [wash?] small hands in the blood of a brother. I am sending to Your Grace, come to me. Having read these letters, for the completion of the consultation and to give an account of the response to His Grace Mr. Chomski and His Grace Mr. Antoni. You are worthy of this, listen to me, [...] to see Your Grace, repaying with patience, which is necessary. We owe God constant sadness and regret, and whoever does not want to suffer, renounces victory.
[S. 3]
Also, His Grace Mr. Miłost should appropriately [settle?] his grievances [...], and reconciliation will follow among us. I have sincerely replied to the letter of His Grace Mr. Chomski [...]. By renewed means [...] we will resolve among ourselves by what methods to calm this matter. For the sake of the Lord God I ask, for my sake, for Mr. Miłost's sake – it is a strange matter, it is strange, Your Grace will see, [...]. God will meet you with the prayers of [...] parents, [...] God will leave nothing fallow. Do you wish to acquire more? And yet I ask, through which the Lord God will also forgive. Let us have peace before our eyes and forgive us, as we also forgive our debtors. Forgive sincerely this blood which was shed innocently, add it to the wounds of Jesus, and thus you will see, Your Grace, that the Lord God will reward abundantly. With this I wish graces, sir, I commend them [...].
Your Grace's [...] brother and humble servant
S. Głogowski
[S. 4, address:]
To my Greatly My Lord and Heartily Beloved Lord, His Grace Mr. Franciszek Głogowski, Your Grace.
Farewell [...]
Original wording — transcription
[S. 2]
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Mnie Wielce z Serca Kochany
M[ości] Panie Bracie
Viuit Deus ze tak kocham wmm Pana iako siebie barziey niemoge
y tez zadaię owemu przysłowiu ze desperata charitas inci-
pit a se[ipso?]. Kiedy od siebie vegetat y od WMM P. redintegrat.
Moy kochany m[ości] p[anie] Bracie, wszak to wie Bóg niezgody nasse
iż me Rodzicow naszych hanc poenam meruerunt. Wszak to wie
Bóg y teraz za spowiedzi, które nieodpusciwszy Bratu przy-
miemy te, biedyby od Pana Boga przymiemy. Czas, czas
upamiętania, ile zesmy szkody fortuny perti Oyca naszego,
nie wystarczy intrata, trzeba się ozenic, a przecie w s[...]
uwikle. Boday mie Pan Bog na zdrowiu moim karał,
kiedy nie życzliwy WMM P., cuz z tego daley prosty[?],
ktory zeby odspiew[?] małe ręce we krwi Brata
[zmyc?]. Posyłam WMM P., przyndz do mnie. Listy te przeczy-
tawszy, ad complementum consilij y relatiey respon-
du Im P. Chomskiemu y Imci P. Antoniemu. Jesteś
tego godzien, posłuchay mie k[...] WMM P. obaczyc, retali-
ando cierpliwosci, ktorej trzeba. Nostri ad Deum dandu[m]
iugi meror et dolor, adaleq[ue] qui pati non uult uincere
[S. 3]
recusat. Takze y Imci P. Miłosty[?] niech conueniens[?]
swoie urazy y przyrodza, a mie będz[ie] pacificatio.
Jam duse na list Im P. Chomskie[go] odpisał, odspe-
wstwie latus. Iteratis medijs do siebie [...] conclu-
demus u siebie, quibus medijs negotium uspokoić się.
Dla Pana Boga prosze, dla mnie, dla P. Miłosta, ca-
sa estranger, dziwny to WMM P. obaczysz, u pewna
corku! Bóg te modlitwami P[odwyższonych?] rodzicow napo-
tka, do bytto Pan, nic odłogiem nie pusci Bóg,
chceszze więcey zaskarbiffy, a przecie proszę cemu
y Pan Bóg odpusci. Pacem mieymy przed oczyma
et dimitte nobis sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris,
odpusc sczypce te krew, którą niewinnie rozlał.
Przyday do ran Jezusowych, a tak obaczysz WMM P., że
Pan Bóg sowicie odda. Za tym życzę łaskim Panie,
zalecam Ich[?].
WMM P. [uprzeymie] mey [...] Brat y uniżony sługa
S. Głogowski
[S. 4, adres:]
Memu Wielce M[ości] Panu y z Serca
Kochanemu Panu Jego M[oś]ci Panu Francisz-
kowi Głogowskiemu WMM Panu
Vale[...]
Reading notes
Letter without a daily date or place of issue; the annual dating (1694) and the author's title (cup-bearer of Nowogródek) are provided based on the archival inventory. The letter is a fervent call for the brother to reconcile and forgive grievances. On p. 4, a wax seal is preserved.
Other letters in this unit
- Samuel Głogowski to his brother Franciszek regarding reconciliation and settling a dispute
- Lack of money and a horse before leaving for the camp
