Cieciszewski

The noble (Nob.) Ignacy Dąbrowski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Wojciech, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Paweł Borkowski, son of the late Kazimierz Borkowski, and to his successors he mortgages his acquired estate, that is twelve strips in one place, beginning at the village of Borki Werki and running towards the Lipiny boundaries, between the baulks of the noble (Nob.) Piotr Ługowski on the one side and of the noble (Nob.) Jan Ługowski called Suchmiak on the other, situated and lying in the hereditary estate of the village of Ługi Rętki, vacant, with everything – for the sum of sixteen Polish złoty, from now for one year, with the term falling at the feast of St Luke the Evangelist in the following year 1744; and thereafter from year to year. He consented to intromission forthwith and promised warranty, and this under a penalty of sixteen Polish złoty and the present forum.

[Autograph signature:] Ignacy Dąbrowski

Before the subdelegate, the well-born (Gen.) Antoni Kolumna Cieciszewski, vicegerent of the Łuków castle court.

The well-born (Gen.) Jan Franciszek a Gołąbki Jezierski, sword-bearer of the Liw land, clerk of the Łuków castle court, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the magnificent (Magn.) and very reverend (Adm. Rev.) (Perillustris et Adm. Rev.) Andrzej Hieronim Cieciszewski, canon of the cathedral of Chełm, provost and parish priest at Trzebieszów, he is bound and remains indebted for the sum of one thousand Polish złoty – taken up from the hands of the provident (Prov.) Kobyliński, out of a certain share (sortis certae) lying in the estate of Kornica and acquired by him; which sum he inscribes and secures upon all and each of his estates, and he undertakes to pay it on the day and feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist [24 June] or earlier (anticipative), into the hands of the creditor, and to lodge it with the present records – and this under a like penalty of one thousand Polish złoty and the present forum.

[Autograph signature:] F. Jezierski, sword-bearer of the land [of Liw], clerk of the Łuków castle court

Before the subdelegate, the well-born (Gen.) Antoni Kolumna Cieciszewski, vicegerent of the Łuków castle court.

[Signature:] Antonius Columna Cieciszewski, subdelegated for this act

The magnificent (Magn.) and very reverend (Adm. Rev.) (Perillustris et Adm. Rev.) Andrzej Hieronim Cieciszewski, canon of the cathedral of Chełm, provost and parish priest at Trzebieszów, being of sound mind and body, deposed that he gives a quittance to the provident (Prov.) Mateusz Kobyliński, son of the late Jakub, the perpetual purchaser of estates in the hereditary village of Kornica Rzążew from the magnificent (Magn.) Ignacy Olędzki, tribune of the Łuków land, and to his successors – for the sum of one thousand Polish złoty, first inscribed by the said magnificent (Magn.) Olędzki to Ludwik Iwanowski together with other sums, and thereafter by that same Ludwik Iwanowski ceded and made over to the magnificent (Magn.) and very reverend (Adm. Rev.) Andrzej Antoni Barański, formerly parish priest at Trzebieszów, that is to be applied to the altar of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of the church of Trzebieszów (ad altare B.V.M. Ecclesiae Trzebieszoviensis applicandum), before the present records on the Wednesday, the morrow of the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist in the Year of Our Lord 1738 [25 June 1738], or rather by way of redemption, otherwise called wyderkaf; and thereafter adjudged, together with the interest and the full damages, by a decree in the terms for complaints, that is in the courts of the office's suits, on the Monday after the feast of St Margaret Virgin and Martyr in the Year of Our Lord 1740 [18 July 1740], between the said very reverend (Adm. Rev.) Andrzej Barański, parish priest of Trzebieszów, and the said magnificent (Magn.) Olędzki, tribune of the Łuków land, the defendant, on the one side – further for the inscriptions, the decree, the condemnation and the delivery of the estate [uncertain reading] that followed upon them – for that same entrusted sum of one thousand Polish złoty and for the interest, by reason of its payment, he gives a quittance, and the inscriptions and the whole process he cancels.

[Autograph signature:] Hieronymus Cieciszewski, canon of the cathedral of Chełm

The provident (Prov.) Mateusz Kobyliński, son of the late provident (Prov.) Jakub, and he of the late Jan Kobyliński, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the magnificent (Magn.) Ignacy Cieszkowski, starosta [the name of the starosty – uncertain reading], and to his successors he gives and donates his subjects, that is the industrious (Labor.) (labor.) Jakub Żarniak with his wife and his son Tomasz, and likewise Stanisław Szostek with his wife and his sons: Andrzej, a fugitive, and Józef, who remains with him – settled in the estate of Kornica Rzążew, and now, by virtue of the delivery made, remaining in the possession of the magnificent (Magn.) and very reverend (Adm. Rev.) Andrzej Cieciszewski, canon of Chełm, parish priest of Trzebieszów, and acquired by that same man by hereditary right from the magnificent (Magn.) Ignacy Olędzki, tribune of the Łuków land, before the present records on the Saturday, the vigil of the feast of the Nativity of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary in the year now current 1743 [7 September 1743] – together with their wives and sons, as said above, with their oxen, horses, cattle and swine, with the whole farming property and with all the household goods, and this under the land-law damages and the present forum.

[Autograph signature, in block letters:] MATEWSZ KOBYLENSKI