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Letter #4836

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Ermland (Warmia) Chapter
Heilsberg (Lidzbark), 1542-08-08

English register:

Dantiscus forwards to the chapter a royal mandate concerning the collection of the tax enacted at the [Royal Prussian] Diet in Marienburg (Malbork) and entrusts them with ensuring its enforcement. He also sends a copy of his own mandate regarding the tax as well as other current matters [i.e., sumptuary regulations on attire]. He leaves the specifics of implementing those regulations with respect to the chapter’s subjects to the chapter’s own discretion.


            received 1542-08-11

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, in secretary's hand, GStA PK, XX. HA Hist. StA Königsberg, HBA, C 1a, K. 497

 

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Venerabiles Domini, fratres sincere dilecti.

Mittimus exemplum mandati regii, quod ad exigendam contributionem in novissimo Provincial Diet of Royal Prussia ⌊Marienburgensi conventuProvincial Diet of Royal Prussia ⌋ institutam ad omnes Royal Prussian Estates ⌊harum terrarum status et ordinesRoyal Prussian Estates ⌋ est perlatum. Quod Fraternitates Vestrae exsequi curabunt. Est et aliud nostrarum cf. Mandate by Ioannes DANTISCUS concerning tax and unlawful clothing, CIDTC IDT 599⌊litterarumcf. Mandate by Ioannes DANTISCUS concerning tax and unlawful clothing, CIDTC IDT 599⌋ exemplum, quibus ab omnibus subditis nostris eam contributionem colligi et quaedam alia iis temporibus necessaria fieri iussimus. Ea in re id, quod apud suos commodum putaverint, Fraternitatibus Vestris liberum relinquimus.

Easque feliciter valere optamus.