_ 82 _ increasingly involve himself in and devote himself to the pursuit of these holy matters, in the same way as I do. I beseech you, as a singular favour, to act according to your special responsibility and capacity, to advise him not to be so wasteful in dispensing lodgings and clothes. Besides he has no mandate for this. Please stop him doing this if he has not already done so. At the King’s specific command, I am not sending you letters from him or from anyone else, because in the ships which have recently arrived from there, he himself wrote to me indicating that there was no need to do so because thanks to you he had received all this information in great detail. For this I kiss your hands.(A) (A) BNL. Alcob 297 (475 in printed catalogue) fols 175-176r. Copy: hand writing of the end of the 18th Century.
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