Traces in the Sand

Document 5 · Report

20 December 1771

Konin

An entry of 20 December 1771. The court messenger Nicolaus Krzepczyński of Myszaków, by special commission of Stanisław Ścibor Chełmski, lays weapons before the castle office at Konin: four sabres in sheaths with belts and one unsheathed, four spears with iron points, three long guns and one gun mounted with brass, loaded with lead and fine powder. He states that Chełmski took them on the Monday before in the Lusnia wood, when Antoni Prusimski of Kolno, Starost of Niszczewice, broke in there by force and armed men besieged the innkeeper's house. The messenger takes the weapons back.

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  1. Actum in Conin Feria Sexta pridie Festi Sancti Thomae Apostoli Anno Domini 1771
  2. Pro Parte Magnifici Chełmski Armorum Praesentatio
  3. Ad Officium et Acta praesentia Castrensia Coninensia personaliter veniens Providus Nicolaus Krzepczyński de Villa Myszaków Ministerialis Regni Generalis Speciali Commissione Magnifici Stanislai Scibor Chełmski Bonorum Łukom Cum Attinentiis Haeredis presentavit Officio praesenti Arma Infrascripta et quidem Frameas Quatuor in Vaginis cum Cingulis coreis Item unam evaginatam Ferro Obductas Item Chastas Quatuor Spiculis ferreis super baculos Obsignatas Item Bombardas Longiores Tres et Sclopetum unum Orichalco obductum Plumbo et Minuto Pulvere Onustas. Quae praemissa praeter alia arma per Partem infrascriptam sublata In Borra Lusnie nuncupata Hollandis Superin[ae]dificata ad Bona Łukom nunc et ab antiquo Spectante Circa Violentam Magnifici Antonii a Kolno Prusimski Capitanei Nieszczeviensis Bonorum Trąmpczyn Contiguorum Haeredis Superinvasionem ac Armatis hominibus Licentiosis Gazae Tabernatoris Obsessionem Feria Secunda Immediate praeterita Arma eadem per Magnificum Chełmski Intercepta Is idem Ministerialis Suprascriptus esse asseruit Quae sic praesentata rursus ad se recepit et de receptis Officium suum praesentibus Quietatus est.