 At the beginning of the 17th century the ownership of the town was transferred to the Gołuchowski family.In the 16th and 17th centuries the town was a major centre of Polish Protestants (Calvinists and the Polish Brethren).On the basis of privilege granted by Krzysztof Gołuchowski in the second part of the 17th century the town was populated by Sephardi Jews expelled from Spain.