Sienicki

The magnificent (Magn.) Franciszek Sienicki, sword-bearer of the Bielsk land, comrade of His Royal Majesty's hussar banner, in his own name and in the name of the very reverend (Adm. Rev.) Father Aleksander, canon of Brześć, and Sebastian, sword-bearer of Mielnik, Sienicki, his brothers german, for whose ratification he stands surety, being of sound mind and body, deposed that he gives a quittance to the magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Beydo Rzewuski, pantler of the Łuków land, and to his successors for the pledges returned to him – a gilt object and a ring [uncertain reading] – pledged by the late magnificent (Magn.) Piotr Sienicki, pantler of Sanok, the deponent's father, with the late magnificent (Magn.) Jan Rzewuski, hunter of Podlasie, the father of the party now quitted, for the sum of one thousand Polish złoty; and likewise for the sum of six hundred Polish złoty – in completion of the sum of four hundred Polish złoty for a horse, secured for payment by a hand-written bond given by the party now quitted to the said late magnificent (Magn.) Piotr Sienicki, pantler of Sanok, and hitherto unpaid, and now set off and reckoned by the deponent. For that sum of six hundred Polish złoty he gives a quittance; they reserve to themselves no mutual claims on account of those pledges or of the sum of one thousand Polish złoty – on the contrary, they cancel them.

The well-born (Gen.) Andrzej and Zofia née Sienicka Chrościechowski, spouses – and the wife with the assistance of that same husband of hers – being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the magnificent (Magn.) Stanisław Beydo Rzewuski, pantler of the Łuków land, lieutenant colonel of the armies of His Royal Majesty and of the Commonwealth, and to his lawful successors they are bound and obliged for the sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty-two Polish złoty by way of a certain, true, just, liquid and simple debt; which sum they inscribe and secure upon all and each of their estates and upon any sums whatsoever, those of interest as well, and likewise upon their movables and livestock; and they undertake and bind themselves to pay that sum to their magnificent (Magn.) creditor on the vigil of the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist falling in the coming year 1744, God willing, together with the interest at ten per hundred – for which interest for the present year, being paid, the deponents themselves give a quittance – and to lodge it with the Łuków castle court records, and this under a penalty of one thousand one hundred and fifty-two Polish złoty and under the present court.

[Autograph signatures:] A. Chrościechowski; Z. Chrościechowska

The magnificent (Magn.) Adam a Mińsko Rudzieński, deputy cup-bearer of the Stężyca land, and the other brother, [the given name read with uncertainty] Rudzieński, sons of the late magnificent (Magn.) Andrzej Rudzieński, pantler of Bracław, on the one side, and Stanisław Sienicki, standard-bearer of Latyczów, in his own name and in the name of the magnificent (Magn.) Dominella née Rudzieńska – by her first marriage the wife of the magnificent (Magn.) Prusiński, deputy pantler of Latyczów, by her second the wife of the magnificent (Magn.) Leszyński [uncertain reading], pantler of Czernihów, and now his own wife, and daughter of the above-named magnificent (Magn.) Andrzej Rudzieński, pantler of Bracław – for whose ratification he stands surety, on the other side, being of sound mind and body, deposed and acknowledged that they, wishing to allay and finally to determine the suit and action over the dowry falling to that same magnificent (Magn.) Dominella née Rudzieńska, now Sienicka, out of the paternal and maternal estates, brought and lodged with the Lublin Tribunal courts, do inscribe and have besought as highest judge and umpire (superarbiter) the magnificent (Magn.) Wiktor Aleksander of Cieszków Cieszkowski, land clerk and clerk of the castle court of Liw.

Which magnificent (Magn.) umpire, together with the arbiters chosen two from each side, is to journey to the ground of the estate of Rowy Principaliora on the Monday after Cantate Sunday, falling in the present year 1744. First of all he shall enjoin upon both appearing parties the production of the documents of the mass of the substance, both the paternal – left by the late magnificent (Magn.) Andrzej Rudzieński, pantler of Bracław – and the maternal, devolved from the late magnificent (Magn.) Salomea Opacka, to whomsoever it may have fallen; and as to the honest production of them he shall bind them by an oath. Out of what is produced he shall come to know and shall establish the mass of both substances, both movable and immovable, devolved from both parents. Having established the mass of the substance, he shall assign and adjudge to the magnificent (Magn.) Dominella née Rudzieńska Sienicka a dowry proportionate according to the mind of the law of nature; and the suit itself over the dowry he shall determine according to the terms issued to the Tribunal courts of the Kingdom, keeping their tenor. The rights and the condition of the estates, both the present and the former, together with the inquisitions, should there be need to carry them out, he shall come to know and shall decide; and all and each of the mutual claims, as the need of the case shall require, without going beyond the tenor of the terms issued, he shall determine, moderate and set aside. To his decision both parties – both those inscribing themselves and those chosen – undertake and inscribe themselves to submit entirely and to be obedient to the award, and this under the land-law damages and under the court of the Lublin Tribunal of the Kingdom.

[Autograph signatures:] Adam Rudzieński, deputy cup-bearer of the Stężyca land — Stanisław Sienicki