Traces in the Sand

Document 1 · Decree

1644

Konin

A judgment by default of the land court at Konin, of its sitting of 1644, headed "Contumaces". Jerzy Chełmski, as plaintiff, has cited the brothers Marcin, Wojciech, Władysław and Andrzej Trąmpczyński, sons of the late Stanisław, and his widow Anna of Słończyce, who holds her dower and a life interest in what he left. He charges that they sent their subjects into his own woodland by the village of Łukom and had about eighty notches cut into trees there in the manner of boundary marks, so as to add a great part of his ground to their own. He reckons the harm, leaving the ground itself aside, at a thousand Polish marks and as much again in damages, and demands that the marks be annulled once the sub-chamberlain's office has been brought out. The defendants were called by the court messenger Mikołaj Jaworowski of Karmin and did not appear at the first term; the plaintiff condemned them, with the court's leave, in the penalty of contumacy. The court messenger Bartłomiej Koelmarek of Łukom declares that he laid the citation on the Monday before at the manor of the cited in the village of Trąbczyn, in the presence of the household.

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  1. Trąmpczynscy Con[tuma]ces
  2. Generosus Georgius Chełmsky Actor Generosos Martinum Albertum Vladislaum et Andream fratres germanos Ottow Trąmpczyńskich olim Stanislai filiis nec non Annam de Słończyce eiusdem olim Stanislai Trąmpczyński Consorte[m] relict[am] bonorumq[ue] morte eiusdem derelictorum Dominam Reform[atoriam] et Advit[alem] de bonis ipsorum generaliter omnibus in Judicium praesens Terrestre Coninense Minorennes si qui sunt cum Tutoribus ipsorum a[ssignatis?] Citatos pro eo quia Ipsi Non Contenti prioribus iniurijs damnis gravaminibus per immissionem Subditorum ipsorum eidem Actori in borra eiusdem Actoris propria Villae Łukom in arboribus incisiones ad instar signorum granicialium Octuaginta citra vel Ultra fecerunt et exciderunt procurarunt qu[i] de facto exciderunt volentes eiusmodi facto magnam partem fundi eiusdem Actoris proprii adiungere et fundo suo appropriare in grave damnum Actoris praemissa faciendo Quod sibi Contra ipsos fundo intacto pensat ad Mille Marcas Polonicales damnique totidem vel prout Judicium decernet Ac nihilominus educto officio Succamerali eadem signa luitis paenis annihilent. Citatione de praemissis latiori existente Per Ministerialem Regni Generalem Honestum Nicolaum Jaworowski de Karmin Juridice clamatos et non Comparentes in Termino primo in paena contumaciae Admittente Judicio eodem Judicialiter Condemnavit. Hicque personaliter stans Ministerialis Regni Generalis Providus Bartholomaeus Koelmarek de Łukom tanq[uam] palam Recognovit se Citationem ratione praemissorum editam Feria secunda proxime praeterita
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  1. in Curia Citatorum Villae Trampczyno praesente familia domus posuisse.