Chrościechowski

The magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Beydo Rzewuski, pantler of the Łuków land, lieutenant colonel of the armies of His Royal Majesty and of the Commonwealth, being of sound mind and body, deposed that he – by virtue of the consent graciously granted to him by His Most Serene Royal Majesty, our Gracious Lord now reigning, the tenor whereof is as follows:

„Augustus the Third, by the grace of God king of Poland, grand duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Mazovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlasie, Livonia, Smolensk, Siewierz and Czernihów, and also hereditary duke of Saxony and prince elector – we make known by this our letter to all and to each severally whom it concerns, that we have allowed and permitted, and by this our letter we allow and permit the magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Rzewuski, deputy cup-bearer of Łuków, that he may and shall have power to yield up the whole and entire right of life estate which serves and falls to him in the advocateship (wójtostwo) in the village of Domanice, situated in the Lublin voivodeship and in the Łuków land, and to transfer and convey the same in full upon the persons of the well-born (Gen.) Andrzej and Zofia Chrościechowski, lawful spouses. Which cession and transfer of the right, if it shall thereafter be made and lawfully carried out before any of our trustworthy records, we shall hold valid and pleasing. Which advocateship in the village of Domanice, with all the buildings, arable, meadows, fields, fishponds, rivers, streams, lakes, woods, groves, taverns, mills, subjects and their labour services, rents, tributes, profits and revenues, with the appurtenances and appendages whatsoever, excepting none at all – just as the said magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Rzewuski had and possessed them – so too shall those same well-born (Gen.) Andrzej and Zofia Chrościechowski, spouses, hold, have and possess them until the last term of their lives. And we promise for ourselves and for our most serene successors that neither we nor our most serene successors shall remove or put away the said well-born (Gen.) Andrzej and Zofia Chrościechowski, spouses, from the peaceful possession of that same advocateship and of all that belongs to it, nor shall we give to anyone the power to remove or to put them away, but we shall preserve to them the whole and unimpaired right of life estate; which our most serene successors shall likewise do, saving our royal rights and the rights of the holy Catholic Church. In faith whereof we have commanded this letter, subscribed with our hand, to be furnished with the Crown seal. Given at Warsaw on the twenty-seventh day of the month of January in the Year of Our Lord 1739, and of our reign in the sixth year. Augustus the King. [The place of the seal of the Great Chancery.] – A consent for the yielding up of the advocateship in the village of Domanice in the Lublin voivodeship, the Łuków land, granted to the magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Rzewuski, deputy cup-bearer of Łuków, upon the persons of the well-born (Gen.) Andrzej and Zofia Chrościechowski. Teodor de Wodel [uncertain reading], scholastic, secretary of His Royal Majesty and of the Great Seal."

– now, forthwith and in fact yields up to the said well-born (Gen.) Andrzej and Zofia Chrościechowski, lawful spouses, the whole and entire right of life estate of his own which serves and falls to him in the said advocateship in Domanice, with all the appurtenances and appendages – just as it has long stood within its bounds, baulks and circuit – and likewise with the use, the profits and the revenues falling in whatsoever manner; and his whole and entire right to the said advocateship he conveys, transfers and incorporates in full upon the persons of the said well-born (Gen.) Andrzej and Zofia Chrościechowski, his cessionaries; and intromission into the said advocateship he freely gives to those same cessionaries of the right, by the force of the prescribed office, together with [the right] of leasing it out for any number of years and of taking [the profits], and in fact admits them to it. This his [deposition, etc.].

[Autograph signature:] Stanislaus de Beydy Rzewuski, pantler of the Łuków land

That same magnificent (Magn.) lord on the one side, and the well-born (Gen.) Andrzej and Zofia Chrościechowski, spouses – and the wife with the assistance of that same husband of hers – present on the other side, being of sound mind and body, deposed that they give a quittance for any hand-written contracts whatsoever written down and drawn up between themselves concerning the advocateship in Domanice, and likewise for the bonds given and for all the claims on that account arising up to this day – by reason of the amicable settlement concluded between them and of the satisfaction rendered to one another – and any contracts whatsoever and the bonds they cancel; and this mutually and reciprocally to one another and to their successors.

[Autograph signatures:] Stanislaus de Beydy Rzewuski, pantler; A. Chrościechowski; Z. Chrościechowska

The well-born (Gen.) Andrzej and Zofia née Sienicka Chrościechowski, spouses – and the wife with the assistance of that same husband of hers – being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Beydo Rzewuski, pantler of the Łuków land, lieutenant colonel of the armies of His Royal Majesty and of the Commonwealth, and to his lawful successors they are bound and obliged for the sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty-two Polish złoty by way of a certain, true, just, liquid and simple debt; which sum they inscribe and secure upon all and each of their estates and upon any sums whatsoever, those of interest as well, and likewise upon their movables and livestock; and they undertake and bind themselves to pay that sum to their magnificent (Magn.) creditor on the vigil of the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist falling in the coming year 1744, God willing, together with the interest at ten per hundred – for which interest for the present year, being paid, the deponents themselves give a quittance – and to lodge it with the Łuków castle court records, and this under a penalty of one thousand one hundred and fifty-two Polish złoty and under the present court.

[Autograph signatures:] A. Chrościechowski; Z. Chrościechowska