Tarczewski

The well-born (Gen.) Karol and Stanisław, sons of the late well-born (Gen.) Wojciech Radzikowski, brothers german to one another, in their own name and in the name of the well-born (Gen.) Franciszka Radzikowska, a maiden, for whose ratification they stand surety, on the one side; and Ludwik and Józef, brothers german to one another, sons of the late well-born (Gen.) Jakub Radzikowski, in their own name and in the name of the well-born (Gen.) Ignacy, Julian, Katarzyna – wife of the well-born (Gen.) Grzegorz Tarczewski – and also Franciszka, Agnieszka and Barbara, unmarried maidens, their brothers and sisters german, for whose ratification they stand surety, on the other side – the Radzikowski, cousins german to one another on the father's side, grandsons of the late well-born (Gen.) Piotr Kazimierz Radzikowski, regent of the Łuków castle court records, and Joanna née Głuchowska, husband and wife – being of sound mind and body, deposed that for the settlement and final adjudication of the suit and action concerning the estates left after the death of the said grandparents and laid waste during the possession of the well-born (Gen.) Jakub Radzikowski, uncle and father – on account of the flight of the subjects, the taking of the profits and the turning of those estates to his own advantage; likewise as regards the inheritance share falling to the well-born (Gen.) Wojciech Radzikowski; and against the same and the well-born (Gen.) Jakub Radzikowski – for the seizure and mortgaging of the manorial and dwelling buildings, their devastation and the allowing of them to fall into ruin, and for the wrongs and damages arising therefrom – they choose and appoint as arbiter and highest judge (umpire, superarbiter) the magnificent (Magn.) Jan Franciszek Jezierski, sword-bearer of the Liw land, clerk of the Łuków castle court. He is to come down to the estates of the village of Radzików Wielki on the 8th day of April of the present year 1743, together with the Gentlemen Arbiters – two named by each side – having full liberty and absolute power: to make a division of the estates between the litigating parties, to pronounce upon the seizure of the estates and to enjoin [their return] upon whomever it is due; to examine and determine the hereditary rights; to enjoin the production of the documents (muniments) by him whom it concerns; to liquidate the sums taken by either party or by its predecessors or successors, and to lay the charge of them upon him whom it concerns; to enjoin repair and to prevent further destruction; to examine the lawfulness of the claims to the land and to moderate the parties; and finally – should it be needful – to conduct inquisitions, to issue interrogatories for the parties, to adjudge them and to ordain and determine such other things as the matter requires. The parties shall be bound to submit to the decision of the magnificent (Magn.) Umpire and of the Gentlemen Arbiters, and to that they bind themselves – under the land-law penalties and the forum of the present office.

Having appeared in person before the present castle court records of Łuków, the noble (Nob.) Marcin Borkowski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Wojciech, being of sound mind, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Grzegorz Lipiński, son of the late noble (Nob.) Marcin, and to his successors he yields up with everything and, ceding, transfers a sum of twenty-six Polish złoty — inscribed to him, the deponent, by the noble (Nob.) Krzysztof Tarczewski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Wojciech, and the noble (Nob.) Teresa née Chojecka [the reading of the given name uncertain], husband and wife, by way of mortgage upon estates lying in the village of Tarczew, before the present records on the Friday after Cantate Sunday in the Year of Our Lord 1717 [the reading of the year uncertain], and now taken up from the hands of the present cessionary. Intromission forthwith, of civil right, from the thing and from the person; and this under a like penalty of twenty-six Polish złoty, before the forum of the present office.

The nobles (Nob.): Barbara Karwowska, the daughter begotten of the late noble (Nob.) Wojciech Karwowski called Markowicz with the late noble (Nob.) Marianna Krasuska – the sister german of the late noble (Nob.) Stefan Krasuski, who departed without issue – and the wife of the noble (Nob.) Leonard Karwowski called Jonik; Anna, the daughter begotten of the late noble (Nob.) Antoni Karwowski, the brother of the said Wojciech, with that same late noble (Nob.) Marianna Krasuska, and the wife of the noble (Nob.) Wojciech Kożuchowski, the niece; further Franciszek Karwowski together with the noble (Nob.) Ewa Karwowska and with the noble (Nob.) Anna Kożuchowska, his sister german, for whom he stands surety; and moreover Jadwiga Celińska, the daughter begotten of the late noble (Nob.) Marcjan Celiński with the late noble (Nob.) Anna Karwowska – the sister german of the said noble (Nob.) Barbara Karwowska, the deponent – by her first marriage the wife of the late noble (Nob.) Tomasz Tarczewski, and now by her second marriage the wife of the noble (Nob.) Kazimierz Krasuski, in the absence of her husband, who by reason of sickness cannot appear before the present records, with the assistance of the noble (Nob.) Jakub Tarczewski, her son begotten with her first husband – being of sound mind and body, deposed (and the women with the assistance of their husbands, and the widow as above) that to the noble (Nob.) Franciszek Krasuski called Synowicz, son of the late noble (Nob.) Maciej Krasuski, and to Andrzej Tarczewski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Marcjan, and to their successors they give and donate their estates – both the paternal hereditary ones and those come by inheritance, fallen to them after the said late noble (Nob.) Stefan Krasuski and due to them as against the other co-successors – that is their whole and entire inheritance share: in the plots, the buildings and any structures whatsoever, gardens, orchards, arable, fields, meadows, woods, forests, groves, rivers and streams, and in the other appurtenances and appendages of those same estates, situated and lying in the hereditary village of Krasusy-Gołowierzchy – with everything. They consented to intromission forthwith and promised warranty, and this under the land-law damages and under the present court.

The deponents unlettered (in the source: „Ignari scribendi litterarum”) – the entry without signatures.

The noble (Nob.) Antoni Celiński, son of the late noble (Nob.) Stanisław, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Adam Celiński, son of the late noble (Nob.) Sebastian, and to his successors he mortgages his paternal estate, that is:

1) first – four strips of arable, beginning at the place called Nalesna, between the baulks of the noble (Nob.) Marek Celiński and his successors on the one side and of the noble (Nob.) Andrzej Celiński called Michałowicz on the other; 2) secondly – two strips of arable, beginning at the place called Węgtów [uncertain reading] and running towards the Krzymosze boundaries, between the baulks of the noble (Nob.) Adam Celiński on the one side and of the noble (Nob.) Bartłomiej Celiński on the other; 3) thirdly – one strip of arable, beginning at the boundaries [uncertain reading] and running towards the Celiny boundaries, between the baulks of the noble (Nob.) Andrzej Tarczewski on the one side and of the successors of the late noble (Nob.) Iwanowski on the other; 4) fourthly – three strips of arable, beginning at the place called Ostrów, between the baulks of the noble (Nob.) Andrzej Celiński [the cognomen – uncertain reading] on the one side and of the noble (Nob.) Kazimierz Celiński on the other; 5) fifthly – one strip of arable, beginning at the Nurzyna boundaries and running towards the place called Węgtów, between the baulks of the noble (Nob.) Wojciech Celiński on the one side and of the successors of the late noble (Nob.) Kazimierz Nurzyński on the other; 6) sixthly – one strip of arable, beginning at the said place Węgtów and running towards the Nurzyna boundaries, between the baulks of the successors of Andrzej Celiński on the one side and of the successors of the noble (Nob.) Aleksander Celiński on the other; 7) seventhly – two strips of arable, beginning at the place called Borkowa and running towards the said place Węgtów, between the baulks of the successors of the late Stanisław Celiński on the one side and of the noble (Nob.) Piotr Celiński on the other – in the hereditary village of Celiny; 8) further two strips, beginning at that same place Węgtów and running towards the boundaries [uncertain reading], between the baulks of the noble (Nob.) Aleksander Celiński on the one side and of the noble (Nob.) Józef Celiński on the other – in the hereditary village of Nurzyna –

vacant and ready, with everything, for the sum of one hundred and fifty Polish złoty, from now for one year, with the term falling at the feast of All Saints in the year, God willing, to come 1744; and thereafter from year to year. He consented to intromission and promised warranty, and this under the present forum.

The noble (Nob.) Paweł Tarczewski, son of the late noble (Nob.) Łukasz, being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the noble (Nob.) Jan Tarczewski, son of the late Jakub, and to his successors he mortgages his hereditary estate, that is a plot containing within it twelve strips, beginning at the village road and running towards the road called Zapłotnia [uncertain reading], between the baulks of the present party taking the mortgage on the one side and of the deponent himself on the other, situated and lying in the hereditary village of Tarcze, vacant, with everything, for the sum of one hundred Polish złoty – which sum was counted out and paid to the noble (Nob.) Paweł Chromiński – from now until redemption. He consented to intromission forthwith and promised warranty, and this under a like penalty of one hundred Polish złoty and the present forum.

[The deponent] unlettered.

The noble (Nob.) Paweł Chromiński, son of the late Maciej, being of sound mind and body, deposed that he gives a quittance to the nobles (Nob.) Paweł and Andrzej Tarczewski, sons of the late Łukasz, brothers german to one another – for the sum of one hundred Polish złoty, deposed to him by the late noble (Nob.) Łukasz Tarczewski, the father of the present parties quitted, by way of an obligatory inscription and inscribed before the present records on the Tuesday after Laetare Sunday in Lent in the Year of Our Lord 1720 [12 March 1720] upon certain estates lying in the hereditary village of Tarcze, as also for all and each of the claims arising up to this day and for whatsoever protestations made and following upon them – by reason of the sufficient satisfaction and the actual payment of the above sum.

[The deponent] unlettered.

The nobles (Nob.) Tomasz Krasuski Starus, son of the late noble (Nob.) Stanisław, and Krystyna née Krasuska Strączek, lawful husband and wife to one another — she with the assistance of her husband — being of sound mind and body, deposed and acknowledged that to the noble (Nob.) Stanisław Krasuski, son of the noble (Nob.) Stefan called Synowiec, and to his successors their estates — the husband his hereditary ones, and the wife those subject to her rights — that is two and a half strips of arable, beginning at the road called Zapłotnia and running towards the Celiny boundaries, between the baulks of the noble (Nob.) Stanisław Wierzejski on the one side and of the successors of the late noble (Nob.) Antoni Krasuski on the other; further two and a half strips of arable, beginning at the road called Zapłotnia and running towards Wzgórny, between the baulks of the successors of the late noble (Nob.) Tomasz Tarczewski on the one side and as above on the other — situated and lying in the hereditary village of Krasusy Gołowierzchy, vacant, with everything, for the simple sum of fourteen Polish marks, until the day of St Adalbert the Bishop falling in the year 1745, from year to year, they give in mortgage and mortgage. They consented to intromission forthwith, governing themselves by the law of this court, and this under a simple penalty of fourteen Polish marks. The present court.

[The deponents] unlettered.

The noble (Nob.) Anna née Tarczewska, daughter of the late noble (Nob.) Maciej Tarczewski Piotrowicz – widow left by the late noble (Nob.) Stanisław Domański in her first marriage, by the late noble (Nob.) Jan Tchórzewski in her second, and in her last by the late noble (Nob.) Maciej Krasuski called Magdalon – being of sound mind and body, deposed that to the well-born (Gen.) Andrzej Józef, of two given names, Jaszowski, son begotten of the well-born (Gen.) Wacław Jaszowski with the late well-born (Gen.) Petronella of Wągrodno, and to his successors her estates, acquired by hereditary right both after the late noble (Nob.) Maciej Tarczewski mentioned above, her parent, and after the late noble (Nob.) Jakub Radzikowski, that is two homesteads, described in the deeds of donation made before the present records to the person of her, the party acting, lying round about in breadth and in length, situated in the hereditary village of Tarcze, she gives and donates with everything. To intromission she consents by the common law, and this under the land-law damages, for which she appoints the court of the present office.

[The deponent] unlettered.

The same [well-born (Gen.) Anna née Tarczewska] to the same [Andrzej Józef Jaszowski] and to his successors the sum of […] Polish złoty – inscribed to her, the party acting, by the late noble (Nob.) Maciej Tarczewski Piotrowicz, her parent, before the present records on the Tuesday in the octave of the feast of the Most Holy Body of Christ in the Year of Our Lord 1738 by way of mortgage upon certain estates lying in the hereditary village of Tarcze, and now taken up from the hands of the donee – yields up and cedes with everything; and all the rights she transfers, out of her property and her person, and this under a like penalty of that same sum. The present court.

[The deponent] unlettered.