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Letter #6338

[Ioannes DANTISCUS] to [Mary of Hungary]
[Heilsberg (Lidzbark)], [1543-01-29]

English register:

Dantiscus mentions the obstacles to navigation [from Gdańsk (Danzig)] and a request for permission to export goods [text damaged].

On behalf of the king [Sigismund I Jagiellon], Dantiscus offers the monarch’s mediation in concluding a truce in the war [between the Netherlands and Denmark] if the addressee agrees to it with the emperor’s [Charles V’s] permission. The king would act in accordance with pre-conditions to be received from the addressee, under which the agreement were to be made. He is motivated by his close relationship with the queen and her brothers [Charles V and Ferdinand I of Habsburg], as well as his desire to do them a favour.

For [the Poles] have no interests vested in Denmark other than paying customs duties and participating in annual herring fishing.




Manuscript sources:
1rough draft in Latin, in secretary's hand, corrections in author's hand, AAWO, AB, D. 70, f. 199r (t.p.)

 

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... et merces eorum ad communem victum atque ... et remotioribus regionibus necessarios usus per ...o et dicionibus suis, quo velint avehendi de ...m permittere facultatem.

Quod si etiam Maiestati Vestrae placeret permissu caesareae maiestatis, ut serenissimus rex meus operam suam interponat suspenso hoc ad certum tempus cum regno Daniae bello, qua dissidentes per conventus tractatusque utrimque in gratiam reduci haecque turbulenta atque utrisque partibus immo, ut nunc est, rerum facies toti Christiano orbi perniciosa tempestas pacari posset, offert eius maiestas habitis prius a Maiestate Vestra, quibus pacisci velit, condicionibus, propensionem suam et studium ex animo amicum pro ea mutua namque necessitudine fraternaque benevolentia, qua Maiestati Vestrae <et> fratribus eius serenissimis clementissimi domini mei maiestas regia coniuncta est eadem in omnibus ex re esse gratificarique Maiestati Vestrae et illis non cupit solum, verum et ambit summopere.

Nihil enim, illis persoluto teloneo, praeter allec piscium semel in anno a parte nostra capturam cum Danis aliud est commercii.