Borowski

The very reverend (Adm. Rev.) Father Franciszek de Boratyn Boratyński, provost and official of Łuków, being of sound mind and body, deposed that he gives a quittance to the well-born (Gen.) Stanisław and Zuzanna née Krzeska – by her first marriage the wife of the late well-born (Gen.) Tomasz Domański, and now by her second marriage Borowska – husband and wife, and likewise to the nobles (Nob.) Paweł Gołaski, Jan Zarzecki and Elżbieta, widow left by the late noble (Nob.) Wojciech Zarzecki, the mother, and Jan and Józef, the sons, Zarzecki, as also to their successors, for the following sums: the well-born (Gen.) Borowski – for three hundred and sixty złoty; the noble (Nob.) Jan Zarzecki – for twenty-eight złoty and six groszy; Paweł Gołaski – for forty złoty and twelve Polish groszy; and the successors of the late noble (Nob.) Wojciech Zarzecki – for seventeen złoty and twenty-nine Polish groszy; and this on account of the tithe in arrears due to the parish church of Łuków, adjudged by a decree of condescension issued by the present office on the ground of the estate of Zarzecz and lodged with the present records by way of oblation, contained in an act of this day, and likewise for the penalty enjoined by that same decree – by reason of the payment actually made; and the enforcement clause of that decree as regards payment he cancels. And immediately thereafter, since the said well-born (Gen.) Stanisław Borowski and his lawful successors have discharged the sum of three hundred and sixty Polish złoty – due to the deponent on account of the tithe, and now paid by that same well-born (Gen.) Borowski, who holds possession of those estates, by virtue of the decree of condescension cited above – he therefore cedes to him, with everything, his whole and undiminished right to the above; giving him power to receive that sum and to pursue it in the ordinary course of law from whomsoever it shall be lawfully due.

Before the present castle court records of Łuków, having appeared in person, the religious (Relig.) in Christ Father Michał Koszelnicki, of the Order of Friars Minor Observant of St Francis, of the convent of Łuków, with the assistance of the renowned (Fam.) Jakub Gundasiewicz [uncertain reading], syndic of that same convent, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the well-born (Gen.) Zuzanna, daughter of the late well-born (Gen.) Antoni Krzeski, begotten of the late well-born (Gen.) Marianna née Zarzecka, daughter of the well-born (Gen.) Jan Stanisław Zarzecki, tribune of the Łuków land and deputy starosta of the Łuków castle court, by her first marriage the wife of the late well-born (Gen.) Tomasz Domański and now by her second marriage the lawful wife of the well-born (Gen.) Stanisław Borowski, and likewise to Marcjan [uncertain reading], Wawrzyniec, Sebastian and Kazimierz Domański, the sons begotten with the first husband, and to their successors — for the sum of two hundred and forty Polish złoty, by force of the composition (komplanacja) concluded and written down under the act and date of the 4th day of April in the Year of Our Lord 1742 and lodged by way of oblation with the records of the present office on the Tuesday after Low Sunday of that same year — which sum the above-named late well-born (Gen.) Zarzecki, tribune of the land and deputy starosta of the Łuków castle court, bequeathed to that same convent by the testament of his last will, written down under the act and date of the 15th day of April in the Year of Our Lord 1705 in the estate of Zarzec and lodged by way of oblation with the records of the present office on the Monday after Exaudi Sunday of that same year, and which sum, from the time of that testament until the year one thousand seven hundred and forty-one, remained withheld and secured for payment — the said sum of two hundred and forty Polish złoty having in fact been paid through the hands of the well-born (Gen.) Stanisław Borowski, the husband, in his own name and in the name of that same convent of Łuków, for whose ratification he stands surety — he gives a quittance. Moreover, that same sum, paid to him, he cedes and by cession transfers to that same well-born (Gen.) Stanisław Borowski and to his lawful successors, together with the whole and entire right belonging to it, giving power to recover the said sum of two hundred and forty Polish złoty from whomsoever it is lawfully due, to take up what is recovered, to give a quittance for what is taken up and to pursue it by the ordinary course of law.

The well-born (Gen.) Stanisław Borowski, in his own name and in the name of the well-born (Gen.) Zuzanna née Krzeska, his wife, and likewise of Wawrzyniec, Sebastian and Kazimierz Domański, his stepsons, on the one side, and Krzysztof Świderski, in his own name and in the name of Marianna née Niewęgłowska, his wife, and likewise of Stanisław, Barbara and Ludwika, his children, on the other side – for the ratification of all of whom they stand surety – being of sound mind and body, deposed that mutually and reciprocally they give a quittance to one another and to their successors for all the suits and official actions concerning certain claims and acts of violence inflicted upon one another, brought and intended before the present office; for all and each of the manifestations, relations, decrees of whatsoever kind and entries in the dependent registers, arising from whatsoever source and arisen up to this day – not excepting the decree of condescension issued on the ground of the estate of [the name – uncertain reading] on the Wednesday, the morrow of the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Year of Our Lord 1743 – (saving, however, the enforcement clause as regards the sum of fifty Polish złoty, contained in that same decree of condescension); and the protestations, the relations and the decrees of whatsoever kind, together with whatsoever condemnations, they cancel, in their entirety and with the whole process.

[Signature:] Krzysztof Świderski in his own hand

The well-born (Gen.) Wawrzyniec, Sebastian and Kazimierz Domański, sons of the late well-born (Gen.) Tomasz Domański begotten with the late well-born (Gen.) Zuzanna née Krzeska in her first marriage – she being thereafter, after the late Domański, in her second marriage the wife of the well-born (Gen.) Stanisław Borowski, with whom she begot children of the younger bed – on the one side, and the well-born (Gen.) Stanisław Borowski on the other side, being of sound mind and body, deposed that they – for the composing and the final determination of whatsoever claims arisen between them on both sides upon any title – choose, appoint and solemnly accept as supreme judge and umpire (superarbiter) the magnificent (Magn.) Krzysztof a Gołąbki Jezierski, starosta of Gródek, giving and granting to him, together with two arbiters set up two on each side, full power and entire authority:

to come upon the ground of the estate [the name of the village struck out in the manuscript] on the Tuesday after the feast of the Conversion of St Paul the Apostle in the coming year 1744 [28 January 1744] and there to bring the matter to an end; to examine and to determine the donations of both sides, the rights, the inscriptions and the documents; to carry through an inquiry as to the sums and as to the movable and self-moving goods, both after the late well-born (Gen.) Tomasz Domański and after the well-born (Gen.) Borowski, and to order restitution to him to whom it is due; and to determine all and each of the claims of both sides so that nothing shall remain uncleared for the future.

Promising withal and undertaking that all that, whatsoever shall be adjudged by the said umpire and arbiters and determined as right and just, they will hold as valid and agreeable and will approve – and this under the land-law damages, upon a simple word, appointing for answering the court of the present office.

[The deponents] unlettered.