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"That our lawsuit has a strange conclusion I do not deny;

however, there are precedents. I remember lawsuits in which worse

outrages were committed than in ours, and yet marriage articles

ended the whole trouble: in this way Lopot was reconciled to the

Borzdobohaty family, the Krepsztuls with the Kupsces, Putrament

with Pikturna, Mackiewicz with the Odynieces, and Turno with the

Kwileckis. What am I saying! The Poles used to have worse broils

with Lithuania than the Horeszkos with the Soplica family; but

when Queen Jadwiga198 took the matter under advisement, then that

difficulty too was settled out of court. It is a good thing when

the parties have maidens or widows to give in marriage; then a

compromise is always ready at hand. The longest suits are

ordinarily with the Catholic clergy or with close kindred, for

then the cases cannot be concluded by marriage.