Traces in the Sand

Document 5 · Protest

April 1778 [inferred]

Konin

A protest of Stanisław Ścibor Chełmski, Treasurer of Wschowa, entered at Konin in April 1778 and signed by him; the heading names as his opponent one Sokołowski, whom the text does not mention. Chełmski takes up his earlier protests: the boundary decree between his Łukom and Prusimski's Trąbczyn was given by the commissioners brought in on his side, following the inspection of 1592 and two Tribunal decrees of 1766 and 1768, and the boundary mounds were raised. Prusimski's commissioners knew of this and nonetheless abused their power: they left to Albert Czarnecki, boundary chamberlain of Kalisz, whom Prusimski had engaged, the inspection of the boundary line, the raising of the mounds and the taking of the oath. Czarnecki had the decree written only some weeks after the commissioners had left. Prusimski offered oath against oath and took as fellow-swearers a neighbour who was himself cited, a man in Czarnecki's service who had never been in those parts, and other persons of no account. Chełmski accuses Prusimski of all this and offers to prove it by an inquiry of witnesses.

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  1. M Chełmski contra Magnificum Sokołowski Manifestatur
  2. Ad Officium et Acta praesentia Castrensia Coninensia personaliter veniens Magnificus Stanislaus Scibor Chełmski Thesaurarius Vschoven~ Reassumendo anteriores Manifestationes contestat~ Decretum Campestre Graniciale inter Bona sui Łukom, Trąmpczyn JMci~ Prusimski Capitanei Nieszczevicen~ et alia per Commissarios pro parte vn~tis conductos ad tenorem Visionis Anni 1592 per Ministerialem et Nobiles (pro ut Consuetudo illius temporis voluit) et ad tenorem Decreti Terrestris Coninen~ recognitae, per anteriores pro tunc Bonorum Trąpczyna cohaeredes, seu verius adhucusque non incusatae, Decretis binis Tribunalibus Annorum 1766 et 1768, authorisatae et Observari in dislimitatione injunctae intercessisse, Scopulosque per Commissarios Instrumento seu Sancito Statuum Regni nitentes erectos, praestito per Vn~tem in ultimo Aciali scopulo juramento solidatos esse, ast JMcum~ Prusimski Capitaneum Nieszczevicen~ et Commissarii pro parte ejus impetrati licet de conclusa dislimitatione praefata noverint, sipatos pro parte vn~tis scopulos cernerint, et de praestito per vn~tem ad formam Statuti in corroborationem eorundem juramento adaequatam notitiam habuerint, attamen his minime adversis, et primo Commissarii pro parte JM Prusimski potestate sui abutentes, Magnifico Alberto Czarnecki Camerario Graniciali Calissiensi ae~ inchoationem Commissionis per JMcum~ Prusimski in Ordine Lustrationis documentorum, efformationis ductuum, ac praebendi Patrocinii conducto lustrationem ductus sipationem scopulorum pro commiserunt[?] tam ad excipiendum a parte super realitatem ductuum juramentum, ac alia peragenda admiserunt, et designaverunt, Qui M Camerarius prolibitu sui jam post Abscessum JMcorum~ Commissariorum aliquot Septimanarum interstitio Decretum conscribi curaverat, documentaque pro oportunitate in uno loco pro legitimis in altero pro invalibilibus attrahere facultatem sibi permiserat. Is Idem autem JM Prusimski habita perfecta (ut superius est mentionatum) de praestito per vn~tem jurti~ notitia, minus etiam gnarus gra~erum sui uti raro in praesentia sui attentatarum Juramentum contra Juramentum offerre animadvertenter praesumpsit, testesque ad simile cum Eodem praestandum Juramentum unum ex collateralitate ad Citatum Alterum Sensu perfecto carentem, tertium in Servitiis Magnifici Czarnecki existentem immediate Petricoviae ad latus sui susceptum, nec in his oris unquam existentem, ac alios inconsiderabiles adsciverat, Qua ex re publice praemissa exponendo JMcum~ Prusimski rne~ horum Omnium incusat et si opus fuerit etiam Inquitionibus praemissa probaturum et deducturum se Offert~
  3. Stanisław Scibor Chełmski