Grotowski

The well-born (Gen.) Rozalia Grotowska, [the widow left] by the late well-born (Gen.) Michał Grotowski, deputy cup-bearer of Livonia, having entered upon a second marriage with the well-born (Gen.) Piotr Antoni, of two given names, Ogrodziński, cavalry captain of the armies [of His Royal Majesty and of the Commonwealth], his wife, with the assistance of that same husband of hers, being of sound mind and body, deposed that she – in her own name and in the name of the well-born (Gen.) Józef, the son, and of Justyna, Elżbieta and Marianna, the daughters, the Grotowskis born in the first bed, for whose ratification she stands surety – gives a quittance to the magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Rzewuski, pantler of the Łuków land, and to his successors for the sum of twelve thousand Polish złoty, out of the original sum of eighteen thousand Polish złoty – inscribed and secured for payment by a certain contract between them, hers, in her own name and in the name of her orphans, on the one side, and that same magnificent (Magn.) party quitted, at that time deputy cup-bearer of Łuków, on the other side, drawn up and written down in the estate of Olszewnica [the reading of the name uncertain] on the sixth day of July in the Year of Our Lord 1739, subscribed with their hands, and confirmed officially before the present records on the Tuesday, on the very day of the feast of St Giles the Abbot of that same year; that sum falling to her by her right of life estate, and likewise the interest accrued upon it – and this by reason of the actual payment of the said principal sum of twelve thousand Polish złoty together with the interest, falling due on this day, made to her by the said magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Rzewuski, pantler of the Łuków land; and that contract, together with its official confirmation (roboratio), she cancels in its entirety.

[Autograph signatures:] Rozalia Ogrodzińska; Piotr Ogrodzinski

The magnificent (Magn.) Józef count Ostroróg, deputy cup-bearer of the Czernihów land, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the well-born (Gen.) Józef, the son, and to Justyna, Elżbieta and Marianna, the daughters, the Grotowskis – born in the first bed of the late well-born (Gen.) Michał Grotowski, deputy cup-bearer of Livonia, with the well-born (Gen.) Rozalia, likewise née Grotowska, [now] the wife of the well-born (Gen.) Piotr Antoni Ogrodziński, cavalry captain of the armies of His Royal Majesty and of the Commonwealth – and to their successors, he is bound and obliged for the sum of twelve thousand Polish złoty, counted in Hungarian red złoty at eighteen Polish złoty each, raised on this day from the hands of the magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Rzewuski, pantler of the Łuków land, by way of a certain, true, just, liquid and simple debt, that is of money lent; which sum he inscribes and places upon all and each of his estates, and he undertakes and binds himself to pay that sum of twelve thousand Polish złoty together with the interest at ten per hundred – notwithstanding disasters and hostile times – (and for that interest for the present year, paid by the magnificent (Magn.) Rozalia Ogrodzińska, as the lady of the right of life estate, into the hands of her husband, a quittance is given) – at the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist in the coming year 1744, God willing, and to lodge it with the Czernihów castle court records or to place it upon clear and free estates, and this under a penalty of twelve thousand Polish złoty and under the court of the Czernihów castle court office.

[Autograph signature:] Josephus Ostrorog

As regards the interest received, in his own name and in the name of his wife: [autograph signature:] P. A. Ogrodzinski