Koziestański

The noble (Nob.) Wojciech Dziewulski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Maciej, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Leonard Ługowski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Tomasz, and to his successors, he mortgages (obligat) his hereditary paternal estate, that is: 1) first – two strips of arable, beginning at the meadows and running towards the Radomyśl boundaries, between the baulks of the successors of the late Jan Szaniawski on the one side and of the successors of the late Szymon Dziewulski on the other; 2) one strip of like length between the same baulks; 3) in the second field – one strip of arable, beginning at the village road and running towards the public road to Zbuczyn, between the baulks of Józef Dziewulski on the one side and of Jan Koziestański on the other; 4) one strip of arable, beginning at the preceding one [uncertain reading] and running towards the Radomyśl boundaries, between the baulks of Jan Koziestański on the one side and of Łukasz Krasuski on the other; 5) one strip of arable, beginning at the Radomyśl boundaries and running towards the Dziewule boundaries, between the baulks of the successors of the late Szymon Dziewulski on the one side and of Wojciech Dziewulski on the other; 6) one strip of arable with half of a second, beginning at the village road and running towards the Dziewule boundaries, between the baulks of the successors of the late Jan Szaniawski on the one side and of Antoni Dziewulski on the other; 7) one strip of arable with half of a second, beginning at the added parcels and running towards the Dziewule boundaries, between the baulks of Łukasz Krasuski on the one side and of Antoni Dziewulski on the other – lying in the hereditary estate of the village of Koziestany, vacant (vacua), with every right, for the sum of forty Polish złoty, from now until a year and the feast of the Three Kings falling in the coming year 1744, and likewise from year to year and to the same feast, until redemption. He consented to intromission and promised warranty, and this under a penalty (vadium) of the same forty Polish złoty and the forum of the present office.

The noble (Nob.) Jan Dziewulski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Michał Dziewulski, being of sound mind and body, deposed that he gives a quittance to the well-born (Gen.) and noble (Nob.): Antoni called Markowicz, Jan called Starczyk, Krzysztof called Jedynak, Antoni and Wojciech Dziewulski, Jan Korycki, Szymon Chromiński, Jan and Piotr Koziestański, Kazimierz Płudowski and the other heirs and possessors of the estates of the village of Januszówka, today Dziewule Stare, as also to their successors – for the condemnation obtained against them at his instance in the terms (the courts of the office's suits) in the present year 1743 – and this having accepted sufficient satisfaction; with a reservation as regards the nobles (Nob.) Józef and Jan Dziewulski, against whom the condemnation remains in force [the reading of this reservation uncertain].

Before the present castle court records of Łuków, having appeared in person, the noble (Nob.) Wojciech Koziestański, son of the noble (Nob.) Jan Koziestański, and Krystyna Pogonowska, daughter of the late noble (Nob.) Szymon Pogonowski called Wojtkowicz, begotten of the noble (Nob.) Marianna Dziewulska, spouses of one another, the wife with the assistance of that same husband of hers and of the noble (Nob.) Piotr Zdanowski, a friend, and with her free consent to what is described below, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Szymon Izdebski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Maciej Izdebski, and to his successors, their estates — the husband those subject to the right of a life estate, and the wife her paternal hereditary estate, and moreover both spouses those which they themselves acquired by hereditary right before the present records on the Monday after Palm Sunday in the Year of Our Lord 1736 — that is all and each of them, in the plots, the buildings and all the structures, gardens, arable, fields, meadows, woods, forests, groves, rivers, streams and the other appurtenances and appendages of those estates, keeping back and excepting nothing for themselves, lying and situated in the hereditary estate of the village of Pogonów — with everything they give and donate, and put from now into possession, renouncing every right of their own, under the land-law penalties, submitting to the forum of the present office.

Before the present castle court records of Łuków, having appeared in person, the noble (Nob.) Wojciech Koziestański, son of the noble (Nob.) Jan Koziestański, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Krystyna Pogonowska, daughter of the late noble (Nob.) Szymon Pogonowski, his lawful wife, and to her successors, he is bound and obliged for the sum of two hundred Polish złoty, due to her for the estate resigned this day and taken up from the hands of the noble (Nob.) Szymon Izdebski — by way of a certain, true, just, liquid and simple debt. That sum he inscribes and secures upon all and each of his estates, both those held and those which he shall hold, undertaking and binding himself to pay it on the first demand of that same wife of his and to lodge it with the present records, and this under a penalty of two hundred Polish złoty, before the forum of the present office.

Before the present castle court records of Łuków, having appeared in person, the noble (Nob.) Szymon Izdebski, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Wojciech Koziestański, son of the noble (Nob.) Jan, and to his successors, he is bound and obliged for the sum of one hundred Polish złoty, which together with the sum of two hundred Polish złoty [already paid out] makes in all the sum of three hundred Polish złoty — being the price of the estate lying in the hereditary estate of the village of Pogonów, resigned to him for ever this day — as the remainder left over and due for payment, by way of a certain, true, just, liquid and simple debt. That sum he inscribes and secures upon the estate resigned to him this day, undertaking and binding himself to pay it on the first demand of that same creditor and to lodge it with the present records, and this under a like penalty of one hundred Polish złoty for non-payment, before the forum of the present office.

Having appeared in person before the present castle court records of Łuków, the noble (Nob.) Antoni Pogonowski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Jakub, being of sound mind and body, deposed that the noble (Nob.) Szymon Izdebski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Maciej, and his successors — for the sum of fifty Polish złoty, inscribed to him, the deponent, by the noble (Nob.) Krystyna Pogonowska, daughter of the noble (Nob.) Szymon Pogonowski and wife of the noble (Nob.) Wojciech Koziestański, with the assistance of that same husband, by way of mortgage upon estates lying in the hereditary estate of the village of Pogonów, before the present records on the Monday after Misericordia Sunday in the Year of Our Lord 1737, and now taken up from the hands of the party now quitted as the perpetual acquirer of the rights to those estates — he gives a quittance, releases and perpetually acquits, and that inscription he cancels.

The noble (Nob.) Wojciech Koziestański, son of the noble (Nob.) Jan, being of sound mind and body, deposed that he gives a quittance to the noble (Nob.) Szymon Izdebski and to his successors for the sum of one hundred Polish złoty, remaining out of the price set for the estate lying in the hereditary village of Pogonów and inscribed to him earlier before the present records on the Saturday after Judica Sunday in Lent of the present year 1743 by way of a simple debt, and now in fact raised – and that inscription he cancels.

The deponent unlettered (in the source: „Ignarus scribendi litterarum”) – the entry without a signature.

The noble (Nob.) Wojciech Koziestański, son of the noble (Nob.) Jan, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Krystyna Pogonowska, daughter of the late noble (Nob.) Szymon Pogonowski, his lawful wife, and to her successors he is bound and obliged for the sum of one hundred and fifty Polish złoty – raised from the hands of the noble (Nob.) Szymon Izdebski on the day of the present act – by way of a certain, true, just, liquid and simple debt; which sum he inscribes and secures upon all and each of his estates, and which he ascribes, adds and joins to the earlier sum of two hundred Polish złoty, inscribed before the present records on the Saturday after Judica Sunday in Lent in the Year of Our Lord 1743 by way of a simple debt, so that it may make a sum joined together of three hundred and fifty Polish złoty; and he undertakes and binds himself to pay that sum on the first demand of his wife and to lodge it with the present records, and this under a like penalty of three hundred and fifty Polish złoty and under the present court.

The deponent unlettered (in the source: „Ignarus scribendi litterarum”) – the entry without a signature.

Thursday, on the very day of the feast of St Dorothy, Virgin and Martyr, in the Year of Our Lord 1744.

The noble (Nob.) Wojciech Koziestański, son of the noble (Nob.) Jan Koziestański, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Maciej Koziestański, his brother german, and to his successors he gives and donates his paternal hereditary estate, that is his whole and entire inheritance share, such as falls to him as against his other brothers — in the homesteads, gardens, orchards, arable, fields, meadows, woods, forests, groves, thickets, brushwood, lakes, marshes, rivers and in everything else adjacent and belonging to that same inheritance share — with the exception of the added parcel of arable at the Koziestańska boundary [uncertain reading], of three strips in the width of a staje, which he reserves for himself, lying in the hereditary village of Radomyśl Stary, with everything. He consented to intromission and promised warranty, and this under the land-law damages, for which he appoints the present court.

[The deponent] unlettered.

Friday next after Ash Wednesday, in the Year of Our Lord 1744.

The noble (Nob.) Marcin Zabłocki, being of sound mind and body, deposed that the nobles (Nob.) Andrzej Radomyski, Piotr Koziestański, Antoni Dziewulski, Wojciech and Józef Dziewulski and Łukasz Krasuski, heirs and possessors of the estates of the village of Koziestany, and their successors — for the sum of forty-six Polish złoty together with a penalty of fifteen marks, adjudged to him by a decree of condescension of the present office, issued in the estate of the village of Koziestany on the Wednesday next after the feast of the Purification of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of the current year 1744, between him as a party on the one side and the party quitted on the other, and lodged with the records of that same office on the Thursday, on the very day of the feast of St Dorothy, Virgin and Martyr, of the current year, by way of oblation — and this day taken up by him sufficiently and in full, he gives a quittance, and that decree together with its force he cancels.

The noble (Nob.) Tomasz Dziewulski, son of the noble (Nob.) Stanisław, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Mateusz Koziestański, son of the noble (Nob.) Jan Koziestański, and to his successors his paternal hereditary estate, that is three strips of arable in the place called Przygrodna, beginning at the Koziestany homesteads, between the baulks of the noble (Nob.) Jan Dziewulski on the one side and of Piotr Zawadzki on the other, situated and lying in the hereditary village of Koziestany, with everything, for the sum of eighteen Polish złoty, from now until redemption, he gives in mortgage. He consented to intromission forthwith, governing himself by the law of this court, and this under a penalty of eighteen Polish złoty. The present court.

The same […] on the one side, and the noble (Nob.) Mateusz Koziestański on the other side, deposed and acknowledged that mutually and reciprocally they give a quittance to one another and to their successors – for whatsoever protestations, together with the inspection of wounds, made before the present records against one another, for the relations entered and for all and each of the claims which they had against one another up to this day — and especially the noble (Nob.) Koziestański [gives a quittance] to the nobles (Nob.) Tomasz Ławecki and Piotr Dziewulski, the accomplices entering into this matter — and this by reason of the settlement concluded; and the protestations and the relations they cancel.

[Autograph signature:] Jan Koz[iestański]