Metadata: Main Kaptur Court [Sąd kapturowy] of the Volhynia Wojewodship
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом'янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-30-02
- Web address:
- cdiak.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- mail.cdiak@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 17
- Title:
- Main Kaptur Court [Sąd kapturowy] of the Volhynia Wojewodship
- Title (official language):
- Главный каптуровый суд Волынского воеводства
- Creator/accumulator:
- Main Kaptur Court [Sąd kapturowy] of the Volhynia Wojewodship
- Date(s):
- 1632/1697
- Language:
- Polish
- Latin
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 8 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The documents in this fond, in Polish (with Latin elements), Latin and Old Ukrainian (with Latin elements), contain official document registers of the kaptur courts of the Volhynia wojewodship, whose materials consist mainly of decrees and judgements [kondemnaty, a kind of decree] sentencing defendants to banishment, the infamia (a punishment consisting of disgrace and the loss of civil rights), or the payment of monetary fines; and also reciprocal complaints and formal protestations [protestacje] of nobles, townspeople [meshchane], monasteries, and the clergy; etc.
Materials one way or another pertaining to the Jewish population come in the form of fragmentary records in official document registers and may be provisionally divided into several subject groups:
1. Decrees banishing, sentencing to the infamia and other penalties, and removing from office individual Jews or entire Jewish communities for failure to pay taxes, monetary debts and other obligations, and rental payments, including in the case of the Vladimir Jewish community’s failure to pay the liquor [czopowe] and “hearth” [podymne] taxes, and the case of the Lutsk Jewish community’s failure to repay debts to the Kiev подсудку [court clerk?] Jan Olizar, Nikolai Rokshitskii, and the Lutsk land regent Maximilian Vereshchak; for failure to return pawned property or property left for safekeeping (in particular, a horse, weapons, and other valuables stolen from an inn in the village of Ianovka); and for damage to rented property.
2. Formal complaints [protestacje], baliffs’ [woźni] реляции regarding the serving of lawsuits, and other documents containing complaints filed by Jews regarding damages and offenses perpetrated upon them: highway robberies; failure to repay debts; landowners’ breaches of rental conditions (including a formal complaint filed by a Jewish lease-holder, a former resident of Lubny who had resettled to Volhynia due to hostile attacks, against the owner of the town of Mel’nitsa for the former’s being caused constant damages and subjected to attacks upon his home, the seizure of all his property, and to being himself taken into custody and forced to issue a мембрам [a blank form to record debts or other obligations] to free himself); parts of documents (formal complaints [protestacje], oaths [juramenty], registers of damages incurred) and individual documents on the collection of unlawful exactions from and thefts perpetrated upon Jews by government soldiers and privately-owned detachments quartered in cities, towns, and villages (in particular, in the town of Muravitsy).
3. Records of promissory notes, quittances, property dispute agreements, business proxy documents, etc.; a complaint [manifestacja] filed by townspeople of Olyka regarding the impossibility of paying taxes due to the total destruction of the city in a fire that started at night in Jewish homes and the synagogue; decrees and other documents pertaining to a case between the father superior of the Orthodox Fraternal Monastery in Lutsk and the Jewish community of Lutsk regarding the alleged looting of the Lutsk Fraternal Church by four Jews and their accomplices and the sacrilege committed by these persons (alleged to have burned relics of St. Barbara seized during the looting); etc.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Olizar, Jan
- Rokshitskii, Nikolai
- Vereshchak, Maximilian
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Crime
- Financial matters
- Legal matters
- Military
- Trade and commerce
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
