Traces in the Sand

Document 1 · Report

9 June 1788

Konin

An entry of 9 June 1788 in the book of the castle court at Konin. Ludwik Żurawski, in the service of Antoni Prusimski of Kolno, Starost of Niszczewice and heir of Trąbczyn, brings a team before the office: a cart with unshod front wheels and iron-shod rear wheels, two oxen, a cow and a chestnut mare. The team belongs to Marcin Gryndel, a peasant of Łomowo, an estate of Chełmski, Treasurer of Wschowa, which belongs to his principal estate of Łukom. Gryndel had driven into the pine wood that belongs to Prusimski's hereditary estate of Trąbczyn and was never in dispute, and was already carting home from it a felled tree fit for building; the Trąbczyn forest keeper stopped him in the wood. After showing them, Żurawski leaves the animals and the cart at the chancery to be given back to Gryndel, who asks for them at once; a receipt for this was entered the same day.

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  1. Actum in Conin Die Nona Mensis Junii Anno Domini Millesimo Septingentesimo Octuagesimo Octavo
  2. Pro parte Illustri Prusimski Pecorum Equi cum Curru Eidem adjuncto Praesentatio
  3. Ad Officium et Acta praesentia Castrensia Coninensia personaliter veniens Nobilis Ludovicus Zurawski Illustri Magnifico Antonio in Kolno Prusimski Capitaneo Nieszczevicen~ Bonorum Trąmpczyna haeredi inserviens inhaerendo Juri Communi praesentavit Officio Eidem Currum cum prioribus binis rothis nudis nimirum sub lamina ferri superposita non existentibus als z bosemi przedniemi Kołami cum posterioribus vero rothis sublamina ferri superposita existentibus alias z zadniemi Kołami szybowanemi tum boves duos posteriores unum pili flavidi als sierci płony sub alternum pili discoloris alias sierci pstrey przekobiały nec non Vaccam pili virgulati als z bura pstrey sierci atque Equam Castaneam Currui suprascripto cum paxillis als w Kłonicach existenti injunctos et Currum Eundem boves et Vacca in jugo als w jarzmach Equa vero in loris alias w szlach trahentes Laborioso Martino Gryndel de Bonis Łomowo Magnifici Scibor Chełmski Thesaurarii Vschovensis Bonorum Eorundem haeredis ad Bona Principaliora Łukom hujusce itaque Magnifici Scibor Chełmski Thesaurarii Vschoven~ haereditaria spectantibus Cmethoni Borram ad Bona Trąmpczyna supramentionati Illustri Magnifici
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  1. In Kolno Prusimski Capitanei Nieszczevicensis Ordinis Sancti Stanislai Equitis haereditaria spectantem et pertinentem et in nulla unquam disputatione haereditatis existentem inequitanti et de Eadem Borra Arborem excisam ad Bona mentionata Łomowo Domum Suam jam Vehenti ad aedificia Valentem et aptam in haccemet Borra per Custodem Sylvarum Trąmpczynensium interceptos et gratia praesentationis modo supra praeexpresso subsecutae ad Ante Cancellariam praesentem Castrensem Coninensem appulsos et adductos Quos modo supra exarato boves vaccam atque Equam cum Curru Eidem injunctos, in Ante Cancellariam adstantes praesentatos Is Idem praesentans Nobilis Ludovicus Zurawski circa Cancellariam praesentem Castrensem Coninensium gratia Extraditionis Eorundem Suprascripti laborioso Gryndel ad statim Extraditionem horumce circa praemissam Praesentationem subsecutam requirenti (pro ut praemissa Extraditionis Quietatio in rem Cancellariae Officii sui Die hodierna in Actu exarata subsecuta fusius in se edisserit) reliquit relinquitque per praesentia