Kątski

The magnificent (Magn.) Michał Lisicki, hunter of the Drohiczyn land, being of sound mind and body, deposed that by virtue of a special power of attorney given to him by the very reverend (Adm. Rev.) Father Michał Krasowski, canon of Warsaw, before the Drohiczyn castle court records on the Wednesday, the vigil of the feast of the Most Holy Body of Christ Our Lord in the Year of Our Lord 1742 – for the performance of the acts described below – he gives a quittance, forthwith and in fact, to the illustrious (Illustr.) Eustachy and Marianna née Kątska Potocki, starostas of Tłumacz and Dubno, husband and wife, and to their successors, for the sum of ten thousand Polish złoty. That sum arose out of a hand-written bond, given at Radzyń on the 4th day of August in the Year of Our Lord 1733 by the illustrious (Illustr.) Konstancja Szczukowa, wife of the Vice-Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in favour of and to the person of the illustrious (Illustr.) Antoni Count Butler, starosta of Preny, signed with her hand, and lodged with the records of the present office by way of oblation on the Saturday after the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul of that same year 1733; thereafter confirmed in the Warsaw castle court records by the oblation of the illustrious (Illustr.) Cetner, in his own name and in the name of the illustrious (Illustr.) Wiktoria née Szczuka, his wife, as the lawful successor of the late wife of the Lithuanian Vice-Chancellor, on the Tuesday in the octave of the feast of Corpus Christi of that same year 1733 – given to that same magnificent (Magn.) Butler for payment together with the secured interest. Further, by that same magnificent (Magn.) Marek Antoni Butler, starosta of Preny, it was ceded to the said very reverend (Adm. Rev.) Father Michał Krasowski, canon of Warsaw, by virtue of an official inscription made and confirmed on the Monday after Jubilate Sunday in the Year of Our Lord 1733. And thereafter, by a decree of the ordinary general courts of the Lublin Crown Tribunal, issued on the Wednesday after the feast of St Martin the Bishop in the Year of Our Lord 1741, in the suit between that same very reverend (Adm. Rev.) Father Krasowski, canon of Warsaw, the plaintiff, on the one side, and the illustrious (Illustr.) Marianna née Kątska Potocka, starostina of Tłumacz – at that time still in the maiden state, with the assistance of the illustrious (Illustr.) Potocki, starosta of Lwów, her guardian – the defendant, on the other side, it was adjudged to the said Father Krasowski together with the interest for the years expressed in the decree and with the luitum (lucta) penalty of fourteen Polish marks. And now, since the illustrious (Illustr.) Eustachy Potocki, starosta of Tłumacz, has in fact and effectively paid it out, in accordance with the tenor of the tribunal decree cited, into the hands of the deponent as special attorney, together with the interest and the penalty – the deponent gives a quittance; he also cancels the enforcement clause of that decree, the manifestation made at the peremptory term before the present records together with the publication of the penalty of banishment, and the condemnation that followed it. Moreover, his whole and undiminished right to the said original sum of ten thousand Polish złoty together with the interest and the penalty – as having been paid in full – he yields and transfers, with all the legal conditions, points, clauses, articles, bonds, the penalty and the securities, conveying them in full to the person of the illustrious (Illustr.) Potocki, starosta of Tłumacz, as cessionary, and clearing the estates of his wife.

The magnificent (Magn.) Konstancja née Podowska Dąbrowska, widow left by the late magnificent (Magn.) Władysław Dąbrowski, chamberlain of Vilna, the mother, and Stanisław Dąbrowski, deputy cup-bearer of Liw, lieutenant colonel of the troops of His Royal Majesty, the son – begotten in lawful wedlock with the above-named late magnificent (Magn.) Władysław Dąbrowski before he changed the lay estate for the clerical, and nephew of the late illustrious (Illustr.) and very reverend (Adm. Rev.) (Illustr. et Religiosiss.) Michał Dąbrowski, knight of Malta, and after that same father and paternal uncle the sole lawful successor – being of sound mind and body, deposed, ceding,

that they give a quittance to the magnificent (Magn.) Maria née Kątska – daughter lawfully born of the first bed of the late magnificent (Magn.) Jan Stanisław of the two names and Wiktoria née Szczuka Kątski, husband and wife, granddaughter of the magnificent (Magn.) Konstancja ze Złotego Potoku Szczuka, wife of the vice-chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and lawful wife of the magnificent (Magn.) Eustachy Potocki, starosta of Tłumacz and of Dubno, sole successor and heiress – and to her successors, for two sums, namely:

for the first – of seven thousand eight hundred and eight struck thalers (imperials) and eight Polish groszy: in the first place by a bond of debt before the Warsaw castle court records on the Wednesday after the feast of St Peter in Chains of the year 1718 [3 August 1718] for the sum of three thousand one hundred and fifty-eight struck thalers – deposed by the late magnificent (Magn.) Konstancja ze Złotego Potoku Szczuka, wife of the vice-chancellor of Lithuania, widow of the late magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Szczuka, vice-chancellor of Lithuania, the grandmother of the present party quitted – to the successors of the late magnificent (Magn.) Władysław Dąbrowski, chamberlain of Vilna; and next by a further inscription for the sum of four thousand six hundred and fifty of those same struck thalers, secured by that same wife of the vice-chancellor of Lithuania to the late illustrious (Illustr.) Michał Dąbrowski, knight of Malta, at the official confirmation of the contract described below;

and likewise for the obligatory contract concluded between that same magnificent (Magn.) Konstancja Szczuka on the one side and the above-named late Michał Dąbrowski, knight of Malta – in his own name and in the name of the deponent – on the other side, drawn up and dated at Warsaw on the 24th day of October of that same year 1718, signed in the hands of the contracting parties, officially confirmed in the Warsaw records on the Saturday after the feast of St Matthew the Apostle of that same year [24 September 1718], and lodged with the present castle and starostal records of Łuków by way of oblation in the year 1736, inclusively –

and this by way of security upon the estates of Branica, Wola Bezwola and Zbytków [uncertain reading], lying in the voivodeship of Lublin and in the land of Łuków; which sums, reckoning the imperial at eight złoty of the coin current in the Kingdom, make sixty-two thousand four hundred and sixty-four złoty and eight Polish groszy;

and for the second – of seven hundred and twenty-four Hungarian red złoty, three hundred and forty-six thalers and two złoty, and likewise one thousand seven hundred and thirty-five tynfs and two szóstaki, contracted from that same illustrious (Illustr.) Michał Dąbrowski, knight of Malta, the above-named paternal uncle, by the said magnificent (Magn.) Wiktoria née Szczuka, by her second marriage Cetner, mistress of the Crown kitchen, under a hand-written bond given at Warsaw on the 16th day of October in the Year of Our Lord 1739, and lodged with the present records of Łuków by way of oblation on the Thursday on the eve of the feast of St Michael the Archangel of the year 1741 [28 September 1741], and secured for payment together with the interest by that same bond;

and likewise for the testament of the last will, drawn up by that same illustrious (Illustr.) paternal uncle in the commandery of Łomazy on the 26th day of November in the Year of Our Lord 1740, officially confirmed in the records of the consistory of Janów [uncertain reading], and lodged with the records of the present office by way of oblation on the Monday after the feast of the Three Kings of the year 1741 [9 January 1741] –

together with the interest upon the principal sum of eighteen thousand złoty, fifteen groszy and one Polish szeląg, reckoned from the term set for payment in that same bond, that is from the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist of the year 1734, according to the sentences of the Tribunal, to the like feast of the year 1744, in half, and now up to this day for two years in full, falling due and computed, brought down to the sum of nine thousand five hundred Polish złoty, raised by that same magnificent (Magn.) party giving the quittance out of the sum constituting the price of the estate of Branica with its appurtenances –

which principal sums and sums of interest, computed together at ninety thousand three hundred and sixty-four złoty, twenty-three groszy and one Polish szeląg, have now been in fact and effectually paid out to them;

and likewise for all the claims arising out of the possession of the above-named estates and arising up to this day, reserving to themselves no right and no claim out of them, and for the manifestations made both by that same illustrious (Illustr.) predecessor and by themselves the deponents, as regards the whole process begun in whatsoever manner – they give a quittance, and the above inscriptions, the security of the contracts, the manifestations and the proceedings indicated in them they abolish, cancel, extinguish and annul perpetually and for ever.

Thereupon the magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Szymanowski, deputy cup-bearer of Bracław, the lawfully appointed commissary of the magnificent (Magn.) Eustachy and Maria née Kątska Potocki, starostas of Tłumacz and of Dubno, husband and wife, and the attorney specially inscribed for the carrying out of the above before the Halicz castle court records [uncertain reading] on the Saturday after the solemn feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit of the current year 1743 [8 June 1743], having appeared in person before the present office and records, being of sound mind and body, deposed, ceding,

that he – by virtue of the power of attorney serving him – gives a quittance to the above-named magnificent (Magn.) Konstancja née Podowska, the mother, and Stanisław, deputy cup-bearer of Liw, the son, Dąbrowski, and to their successors, for all the claims arising by whatsoever title out of the ground and the possession of the above-named estate of Branica with its appurtenances, and relating to them, the parties quitted, by reason of his principals, and arising up to this day, reserving nothing of them in favour of his principals, and likewise for the manifestations, the relations, the inscriptions and the other proceedings – and the manifestations, the relation and the whole process he cancels, by means of the present depositions in everything.

[Signatures:] K. P. Dąbrowska; Stanislaus Dąbrowski; Stanislaus Szymanowski, deputy cup-bearer of Bracław