Traces in the Sand

Document 1 · Delivery of possession

4 November 1771

Kalisz (Kalisch)

The record of a delivery of possession, carried out on 4 November 1771 in the Lusnia wood and entered in the records of the castle court at Kalisz on 9 November; the original is sewn into the book. The sworn commissioner of the provinces of Poznań and Kalisz, Wawrzyniec Wstowski, acts at the request of Stanisław Ścibor Chełmski, heir of Łukomia, who has won at law. He recites the judgments on which the delivery rests: a condemnation of 1761, decrees of the Crown Tribunal of 1766, 1767 and 1768 under which the estates of Łukom and Trąbczyn were to be divided by a boundary, and a third condemnation of 1770 against Antoni Prusimski, Starost of Niszczewice, for contravention. In the presence of three noblemen, of the Trąbczyn steward Józef Jaroszewski and of a court messenger he hands over to Chełmski the pine forest and wood called Lusnia as belonging to Łukomia from of old, with the Olęder settlement founded in it not long before: a tavern house with a new stable, without a keeper, and twelve Olęder settlers, who are named. No one objects; an inventory is drawn up, Chełmski is left in peaceful possession, and the settlers are ordered to obey him.

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  1. Actum in sylva seu Borra Lusnie ad Bona Łukom ex antiquo spectante nunc per Holendos infraspecificandos posses[s]a casaque ibidem sitta Feria Secunda post Festum Omnium Sanctorum proxima Anno Domini Millesimo Septingentesimo Septuagesimo primo in Praesentia Generosorum ac Nobilium Caietani Grabski Antonii Parentis et Constantini Filii Fulwarskie, atque Josephi Jaroszewski Economi Trąpczynensis nec non Ministerialis Regni Generalis providi Joannis Bykierski de Villa Węgierce Authentici et jurati actum praesentem acclamantis
  2. Officium infrascriptum in haerendo Constitutionibus Regni et exequindis Condemnationibus seu Traditionibus Bonorum Sancitis ad instantiam et Officiosam requisitionem Magnifici Stanislai Scibór Chełmski Bonorum Łukomia cum attinentiis Haeredis et jurevincentis exhibitionemque Decretorum, seu potius paenam Banitionum cum earundem publicationibus 1ma quidem Feria 2da post Festum Sancti Bartholomei Apostoli in fundo Controverso Anno Domini 1761 et ad Acta Castrensia Coninensia Feria 4ta post Festum Sancti Mathaei Apostoli et Evangelistae anno eodem pro[/post?] oblata porrectae tum Decreto Condescensionis Tribunalitii in Judiciis Ordinariis Generalibus Tribunalis Regni Feria 3tia pridie festi Sancti Aegidii Abbatis anno Domini 1766 inter Eundem Magnificum Chełmski ab una et Magnificum Antonium Prusimski Capitaneum Niszczeviensem parte ab altera ac alios in Comparitionem Decreti illius intrantes Bidgostiae quo ante omnia Cathegoria Bonorae Łukom cum Bonis Trąpczyn dislimitari, de Mandata alterius Feria 5ta post Festum Exaltationis Sanctae Crucis anno Domini 1767 in Judiciis Ordinariis Generalibus Tribunalis Regni Posnaniae nec non Decreti Tribunalibus Condescensionis in Judiciis Ordinariis Generalibus Tribunalis Regni Feria 2da post Festum Visitationis Gloriosissimae Virginis Mariae anno Domini 1768 inter Magnificum Stanislaum Chełmski Bonorum Łukomia Łomowa et Aliorum Haredem ab una et Magnificum Antonium a Kolno Prusimski
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  1. Capitaneum Niszczeviensem Bonorum Trąpczyn et Aliorum Haeredem et Posse[s]sorem parte ab altera ac aliis in Comparitionem Decreti ejusdem intrantes Bidgostiae prolatorum 3tiae demum in termino Condesce[n?]sionis Feria 2da post Dominicae cantate anno elapso 1770 et ad Acta Castrensia Calisiensia Feria 2da post Festum undecem milium Sanctarum Virginum anno eodem pro oblatam porrectae ex instantia suprascripti Magnifici Stanislai Scibor Chełmski Bonorum Łukomia et aliorum Haeredis super Magnifico Antonio Prusimski Bonorum Trąpczyno et aliorum Haerede ratione Contraventionis Decreto superius specificato ex mente Decretorum Tribunalitiorum obtentam et publicatam alias eodem processu in se latiori existente uti post plenariam convictionem ad mentem legis ad traditionem Officium suprafatum accessit de tenore tali:
  2. Najprzód oddaje się W[ielmożnemu?] [Jegomości?] Panu Chełmskiemu bór i las Luśnię zwany i w nim ufundowane niezbyt dawnym czasem Olendry podług opisu granic przez dziedzica Trąpczyna uczynionego do rzeczonych Dóbr Łukomia ex Antiquo należący, teraz zaś od Olendrów Olendry nazwany a to najprzód chałupa oddaje się dobra dla szynku trunków wystawiona z stajnią nową bez gospodarza, Item poddają się Olendry, jako to Michał Kinos, Chenryk Bedka, Jan Tulka, Krystyan Tulka, Bogusław Celmer, Samól Frinderberg, Bogusław Effthman, Krzysztofowa Kulawa, Maci Klinczpor, owczarz Brudzewski, Antoni Pisarz, Wawrzyń Welner Qua itaque peracta nemine impugnante traditione ac conscripto inventorio Eundem Magnificum Chełmski in Pacifica possesione Eorundem fundorum, vi documenti Processu evictorum reliquit et suprascriptis Hollendis uti fundum Bonorum Łukom possidentibus obedientiam Magnifico Chełmski praestandam indixit injunxitque Traditionis praesentis vigore.
  3. Laurentius Wstowski Commissarius Palatinatuum Posnaniensis et Calisiensis Generalis Juratus manupropria
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  1. In castro Calissiensi
  2. Sabbatho ante Festum Sancti Martini Pontificis proximo Anno Domini 1771
  3. Ad officium et acta praesentia Castrensis Calisiensis personaliter veniens Generosus Antonius Serlatkowski obtulit officio praesenti ad acticandum et actis hisce ingrossandum Traditionem in sylva seu Borra Lusnie ad Bona Łukom ex antiquo spectantem Subsecutam de Tenore Tali: Inseratur originale vero ejusdam Traditionis circa Acta praesentia relictum et in Protocollon Insutum est.