Traces in the Sand

Document 7 · Protest

October 1783 [inferred]

Konin

A protest of Antoni Prusimski of Kolno, Starost of Niszczewice, against Stanisław Chełmski, Treasurer of Wschowa, entered at Konin in October 1783 and signed by him. Chełmski has cited him before the land court at Konin to produce men, some of them in his service and others not to be found with him, and to be punished for an act of violence said to have been done. Prusimski declares: if the act was done by those men, it was done without his knowledge and without his order; he can produce only two of those named in the citation, Gregory and Thomas; the arrest did not reach the others. He offers to clear himself by an examination of witnesses as well, and means to claim penalties for the groundless vexation.

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  1. JM Prusimski Capitanei Nieszczevicen~ contra M Chełmski Manifestatur
  2. Personaliter veniens Illustris Magnificus Antonius de Kolno Prusimski Capitaneus Nieszczevicen~ Insignis Sancti Stanislai Eques succurrendo Cuivis Indemnitti Substantiae suae hanc in vim omnimodae diligentiae actt~ praesen~ contra Magnificum Stanislaum Chełmski Thaesaurariam Vschoven~ sequenti methodo infert~ querelam Etenim Maf~ans quam primum a suprascripto Magnifico Chełmski pro statutione Hominum non nullorum Sibi inservientium Nonnullorum vero apud se venientem irreperibilium pro Judiciis Terrestribus in Conin Celebran~ pro paenis super statuendum acsi pro peracta violentia extenden~ concitatus extiterit illico Sui innocentiam explicando quod haec violentia si per Eosdem Homines peracta deducetur inscio veniente et sine mandato Ejus est facta et tantum modo Duos Homines Terminis Magnifici Chełmski Complexos videlicet Gregorium et Thomam statuere valet Alios vero arestum non praevenit ne igit~ aliquod ex inde pati videatur Damnum offert praesen~ querela etiam inquisitionibus se ab obiectis Magnifici Chełmski et quod Arestum praemissos Homines non praevenit Emundaturum et paenas respectu Indebite Vexe expetiturum velle salvis Salvandis
  3. Antoni Prusimski