The Old Polish last wills are very remarkable sources of information on the history of mentality, material culture and everyday life. Wills and testaments coming from the lands of Rus voivodeship in particular provides us with many interesting, unknown information about family relations, patronage, estate and foundations of nobility in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The edition presented to the reader includes the last will of officer Marcin Ubysz of Mogielnica, written in May 1690. The manuscript on which this edition is based belongs to the Collection of Aleksander Czołowski in The Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw (ms 626, pp. 116–117). Modified copy of this document is part of the collection of the Archives of the Polish Province of Dominicans in Krakow and is kept there with the pressmark Lw 588, with other documents concerning Ubysz foundations. The following text presents a heretofore unknown Halicz nobleman and a benefactor of the Lviv Dominicans, but is also a contribution to wider reflections about daily life of the epoch of John III Sobieski.
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