Krasowski

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.

Having appeared in person before the present castle court records of Łuków, the noble (Nob.) Franciszka Krasowska, daughter of the late well-born (Gen.) Marcin Krasowski called Pawlik [uncertain reading] and widow left by the late noble (Nob.) Wojciech Paszkowski, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the well-born (Gen.) Łukasz Polkowski, her son-in-law, and to Magdalena Paszkowska, her daughter, that is to lawful spouses of one another, and to their successors, she gives and donates her paternal hereditary estates, falling to her as against the other sister, that is her whole and entire inheritance share – in the plots, arable, fields, meadows, woods, forests, groves, oak woods, gardens, orchards, rivers, streams and in everything else adjacent and belonging to that inheritance share – lying and situated in the hereditary estate of both villages of Krasowy, with everything. Intromission forthwith, of civil right; and this under the land-law penalties, before the forum of the present office.

Having appeared in person before the present castle court records of Łuków, the noble (Nob.) Barbara Krasowska, daughter of the late noble (Nob.) Marcin Krasowski and wife of the noble (Nob.) Jan Ryszkowski, with the assistance of that husband of hers, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Łukasz Polkowski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Szymon Polkowski, and to his successors, she mortgages and binds her paternal hereditary estates, that is her whole and entire inheritance share, falling to her as against the other sister – in the plots, arable, fields, meadows, gardens, woods, forests, groves, rivers, streams and in everything else adjacent and belonging to those estates – lying and situated in the hereditary estate of both villages of Krasowy, vacant (unsown), with everything – for the sum of forty Polish złoty, from now until the feast of St Adalbert the Bishop falling in the coming year 1744, and thereafter likewise from year to year. Intromission forthwith, of civil right; and this under a like penalty of forty Polish złoty, before the forum of the present office.

Having appeared in person before the present castle court records of Łuków, the noble (Nob.) Jan Ryszkowski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Michał, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Barbara Krasowska, his wife, and to her successors he is bound and obliged for the sum of forty Polish złoty, which he took up on this day from the noble (Nob.) Łukasz Polkowski, by way of a certain, true, just, liquid and simple debt. That sum he inscribes and secures upon all his estates, undertaking and binding himself to pay it on the first demand of that wife of his and to lodge it with the present records; and this under a like penalty of forty Polish złoty, before the forum of the present office.

The same nobles (Nob.) Jan Ryszkowski and Barbara Krasowska, spouses of one another, being of sound mind and body, deposed that mutually and reciprocally they inscribe to one another a life estate upon all and each of their paternal and maternal estates, and likewise upon their movable goods and those that move of themselves, until the last moments of their lives – and this in the following manner [as is customarily written].

The well-born (Gen.) Wojciech Krasowski, Łukasz Polkowski and Magdalena née Pajkowska, husband and wife, and the well-born (Gen.) Franciszek Kiełpiński – the last in his own name and in the name of the well-born (Gen.) Marianna née Pajkowska Kiełpińska, his mother, for whom he stands surety – being of sound mind and body, deposed (and the wife with the assistance of her husband) that they give a quittance to the nobles (Nob.) Stanisław Rozwadowski and Marianna Sobolówna, daughter of the noble (Nob.) Kazimierz Sobol, spouses to one another, further to Jan Mościcki and Urszula née Niewęgłowska – by her first marriage the wife of the late noble (Nob.) Sebastian Sobol, and now the wife of that same noble (Nob.) Mościcki – and to their successors:

for the sum of two hundred Polish złoty, due by title of the dowry after the late noble (Nob.) Elżbieta Sobolówna, daughter of the late noble (Nob.) Marcin Sobol and wife of the late noble (Nob.) Jan Paszkowski, the grandmother of the deponents, out of the paternal and maternal estates – adjudged to them by a decree of condescension issued upon the ground of the estate of the village of Krasów Wielki on the Friday after the feast of St Giles the Abbot in the year 1743 [6 September 1743], between the parties, and lodged with the records of the present office by way of oblation on the Monday after the feast of St Thomas the Apostle of that same year [23 December 1743], and ordered to be paid on the day of the present act – further for the penalty and payment (luita) of three Polish marks adjudged by that same decree – by reason of the actual payment of that same sum and penalty they give a quittance, and the enforcement clause of that same decree they cancel.

Moreover the same deponents yield up and cede to the said nobles (Nob.) Stanisław Rozwadowski and Jan Mościcki – out of the above sum of two hundred Polish złoty and the penalty, actually paid out and taken up by them – together with all the conditions of that same decree and process, giving them every and entire right: to take up that sum, to give a quittance for what is taken up, and to hold, to have and to answer for the estates charged with that sum until its payment, whensoever it shall follow.

[The deponents] unlettered.

Monday after the feast of St Dorothy, Virgin and Martyr, in the Year of Our Lord 1744.

The well-born (Gen.) Andrzej Domański, son of the late Wawrzyniec, called Siemion, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Zofia née Domańska Zaleska, lawful wife of the noble (Nob.) Wojciech Zaleski, and to her successors, for the sum of two hundred Polish złoty — first and originally inscribed by the noble (Nob.) Antoni Krasowski [uncertain reading] to the well-born (Gen.) Anna née Obrąpalska Gilowska, wife of the well-born (Gen.) Franciszek Gilowski, and thereafter yielded up by that same well-born (Gen.) Gilowska to himself in the castle court of Łuków on the vigil of the feast of St James the Apostle in the Year of Our Lord 1738 — having received sufficient satisfaction, he gives her a perpetual quittance and acquits her of that same sum, making his recognition in this matter.

[Autograph signature:] Andrzei Domanski