Traces in the Sand

Document 2 · Report

30 March 1778

Konin

A report of the court messengers Bartłomiej Szepczyński of Trąbczyn and Mateusz Matuszkiewicz of Szetlewek of 30 March 1778. They have served two copies of a royal citation before the Crown Tribunal at Piotrków, dated at Piotrków on the Saturday after Reminiscere Sunday 1778. Cited are Stanisław Chełmski, heir of Łukomia, and the officers of the Kalisz land court: the judge Franciszek Wierusz Walknowski, the sub-judge Stefan Zielonacki and the notary Xawery Mikorski, at Prusimski's instance. The land court's decree of 20 October of the year before, said to contradict its earlier one, is to be lifted and the cause sent to the Tribunal; Prusimski asks to be freed from the claim that Chełmski acquired from Jan Tracholz. One copy was left at Konin in the house of the townsman Palszewicz, the other at the manor of Łukom.

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  1. Actum in Conin Feria Secunda post Dominicam Laetare Quadragesimalem proxima Die Scilicet Trigesima Mensis Martii Anno Domini 1778uo
  2. Ex parte M. Prusimski contra MM. Chełmski et Judicium Terrestre Calissien~ ad Tribunal Relatio
  3. Ad officium et Acta praesentia Castrensia Coninensia personaliter venientes Providi Bartholomaus Szepczyński de villa Trąmpczyn et Mathaus Matuszkiewicz de villa Szetlewek, Ministeriales Regni Generales Sani existentes Recognoverunt se Citt~ Litt~ Authen~ pro Judiciis Ordinariis Generalibus Tribunalis Regni Petricoviensi Infrascripto editt~ binas tenoris talis, Stanislaus Augustus Dei Gratia Rex Poloniae M D Litha~ Ruszia Prussia M. S. Kijoviae Podoliae Podlackiae L. S. Severiae Czerniechoviae Vobis Magnificis Stanislao Chełmski Bonorum Łukomia Haeredi atque Francisco Wierusz Walknowski Judici Stephano Zielonacki Subjudici Xaverio Mikorski Notario Terrestribus Calissiens[i?] Causae Infrascriptae Judicibus Gravaminosis De persona bonis ac Officio Vestris mandamus ut in Judiciis Nostris Ordinariis Tribunalis Regni Petricoviens[i?] a data et positione praesentis Citt~ recte in quatuor Septimanis seu tam diu et quando Causa praesens ex Regro et Inscriptione sibi Competenti adjudicandum vocata et acclamata Incident personaliter et peremptorie Compareatis, ad Instantiam Magnifici Antonii a Kolno Prusimski Capitanei Nieszczevicen[si?] Bonorum Trąmpczyna Haeredis Acto~ Qui vos inhaerendo Manifestationi suae factae sive faciendae tam Legibus Regni et Decretis tam Anterioris Judicii Vestri remissionis ad Terminum Condescensionis Consuccessionem Relictae olim Patrui Acto~ factae atque Tribunali ac Commissioni à Statibus Regni Emanatae Citat, seu potius ad praemissa sistendo Executionem Decreti vestri posterioris Feria 2da post Festum Sanctae Haedvigis viduae Electae Dei scilicet Die 20 8bris, anno praeterito Inter M. Chełmski et se Acto~ in Conin prolati ad citat ad viden[?] et audien[?] Decretum suprafatum Terrestre Coninen~ in Contrarium priori, non relevato nec resoluto priori Decreto uti Etiam absque Termino per Magnificum Chełmski non habito resolvi, nequeunte, ac non attentis Decret~ Tribunalio et Commissione a Statibus Regni Emanata, Forum Terrestre Calissiensi et Decisionem Vestram Impedientibus et non admittentibus gravaminose et etiam non demandata Communicatione Documentorum in tam inveterata Causa et a Triginta Annis initiata, ex praescripto novellae Legis decerni debita prolatum relevan~ a nexuque et rigore ejus se Actorem Liberari Imo Causam pro resolutione ejusdem Decreti, ad Tribunal Remitti, Nihilominus Cassata Transfusione seu Jure illegali per M Chełmski a Famato Joanne Tracholz indebite et in meram vexam ac in Involutionem Causae Granicialis Decreti Actu Commissionalis Discrepantis quaesito in Competen~ Eidem Actione Decreta se Acto ab Impetione hac liberari, ra~one vero Exportati ejusdem Decreti Gravaminosi paenas super parte quam super Judicio exteriori in reliquo ea omnia quae Juris Justitiae ac Documentorum erunt, Contra vos Statui decerni et Sententiari Cittationi sitis parituri et Judicialiter responsuri Dato Petricoviae Sabbato post Dominicam Reminiscere Quadragesimalem Anno Domini 1778uo Primam et quidem Providus Szepczyński in oppido Konin Domoque Famatis Palszewicz [...] praesente matre familia[s?] alteram P Matuszkiewicz contra M Chełmski in Curia Bonorum villae Łukom Praesente [...] Cop[?] utras[?] super mensis hippocaustorum distinctim die hodierna Actu Contenta posuisse et reliquisse