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Letter #3864

[Ioannes DANTISCUS] to Sigismund I Jagiellon
Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warmiński), 1539-03-03

English register:

Dantiscus expresses thanks for the favour shown to his subjects. He promises to make sure it does not become an example to others in future, and also to make his subjects more willing to pay tax.

In connection with news that a fleet is gathering for an unknown purpose on the Baltic, Dantiscus has advised the Gdańsk (Danzig) Town Council to secure the port. He asks the King to command them to do so as well.




Manuscript sources:
1office copy in Latin, in secretary's hand, AAWO, AB, D. 7, f. 106v (t.p.)

Prints:
1CEID 1/2 No. 43, p. 176-177 (in extenso; English register)

 

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AAWO, AB, D. 7, f. 106v

Serenissima Regia Maiestas etc. et Domine, domine clementissime.

Humillimam perpetuae fidei et servitutis meae commendationem.

Pro ea vere regia in subditos meos beneficentia et gratia, qua revera hoc tempore summopere eguerunt, Serenissimae Maiestati Vestrae, quas possum, gratias habeo immortales. Et ne illa, ut Serenissima Maiestas Vestra mihi scribi iussit, aliis in exemplum veniat, immo ut in posterum mei ad contribuendum fiant proniores, a me sedulo curabitur.

Ceterum, quae nunc sunt tempora et quae in hominibus fides, rerum passim successus declarant. Defertur huc ad nos in mari vicino parari classes et nescio quae molimina fieri. Haec ne forte incautos (quod ex incuria plerumque accidit) offendant, commonui pauloante gentiles meos, Gdanum, ut considerate portus sui rationem habeant habiturique sunt nimirum maiori studio et diligentia, si eiusmodi attentionem Serenissima Maiestas Vestra litteris suis serio mandaverit.

Cui me humillime commendo Deum Omnipotentem intime orans, ut eandem Serenissimam Maiestatem Vestram quam diutissime nobis felicissimam atque incolumem conservet.

Ex Heilsberg, III Martii MDXXXIX.