Letter 1020: Sicily's provincial assembly has sent Ambrosius, one of the leading men of the provincial bar, to our lords and...

The provincial assembly [council] of the high magistrates has sent Ambrosius as envoy to our lords and princes, furnished with various instructions which appear to concern the public good. If you lend your support to this man, I think the outcome will be that he obtains a reward in return for his labor. I beg you, therefore, whether for the merit of the embassy or for my own sake, to look well after this excellent man, who is sufficiently confident in spirit that, with your backing, his ease in pressing forward his petitions will succeed. [The remainder of the source consists of OCR-garbled critical apparatus and editorial notes from the manuscript edition, not part of the letter: ...]

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