Traces in the Sand

Document 12 · Protest

1 May 1779

Konin

A protest of Marcin Nosalski, heir and possessor of Rzgów, entered at Konin on 1 May 1779 and signed by him. He enters it as a precaution, so that the testimony of Bartłomiej Szepczyński and Mateusz Wąchnicki in his cause with Prusimski before the Kalisz land court at Konin shall not harm him. The two, he says, on the orders of Tomasz Joachimowicz, stopped his people on the public road as they were carting trees on sledges from Chełmski's hereditary woods, beat them, took them with the sledges to Trąbczyn and seized their axes by force. Nosalski protests against them as the authors of the violence, offers to prove the acts of violence by an inquiry of witnesses, and means to have them shut out from giving testimony in this cause.

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  1. M Nożalski in vim Diligentae Manifestatur
  2. Ad Officium et Acta praesentia Castrensia Coninensia personaliter veniens Magnificus Martinus Nosalski Thesaurarida Czerniechovic~ Bonorum Rzgów cum Attinen~ haeres ac Possessor prospiciendo Indemnitati Suae ne quomodocunque per depositionem Testimoniorum ex Laboriosis Bartholomeo Szepczyński et Matthaeo Wąchnicki in Causa cum Ilustrissimi Magnifico Prusimski Capitaneo Nieszczevicen~ in Juditis Juribus Terrestribus Palatinatinus Calissien~ in Conin promota praejudiciosum sibi inferre videatur hanc Actis praesentibus in vim Diligentiae infert querimoniam protestaturque sequenti methodo Etenim Supra praefati Laboriosi Bartholomaeus Szepczyński et Matthaeus Wąchnicki Mandata Generosi Thoma Joachimowicz Exequentes ausi sunt ac praesumpserunt hominibus Sui Ma
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  1. manifestantis de Sylvis Magnifici Chełmski haereditariis in Trahibus arbores vehentibus in via publica iter praepedire. Eosque Concutere ac Converberare ad bonaque Trąpczyn cum Trahibus adducere Secures violenti modo apphendere Arboris in Foresta Curiali Trąpczynen~ iisdem Eicere exindeque in Complicitatem Facti intrare, his itaque peractis violentiis omnino paenas in se trahere non Erubuerunt, Quare Manifest~ns contra Eosdem violentiarum Executores quam Solennissime Manifestatur, offerendo se praemissas violentias per Ipsosmet peractas omnimoda Inquisitione deducturum a perhibendoque hac in Causa Testimonio relegaturum Complicitatemque delicti Seorsivis punctis probaturum velle, Salvis Salvandis.
  2. Martinus Nosalski