The fifth book of The works of Francis Rabelais, M.D., contaning the heroic deeds and sayings of the great Pantagruel to which is added the Pantagruelian prognostication, Rabelais's letters, and several other pieces by that author / done out of French by P.M.

LETTER X.

My Lord,

I Writ to you at large all the News I could learn, the 28th of January last past, by a Gentleman, Servant to Monsieur de Montreuil, call'd Tremeliere, who return'd from Naples, where he had bought some Horses of that Kingdom for his Lord, and was returning to him with all speed. The same day I receiv'd the Pacquet that you were pleas'd to send me from Legugé, da∣ted the 10th of the said Month, in which you may see the method I have taken for the delivery of your Letters, by which they are safely and suddenly brought to me here. Your said Letters and Pacquet,

were deliver'd at the Arms of Basil, on the one and twentieth of the same Month, the eight and twentieth they were deliver'd to me here. And to en∣courage at Lyons, (for that's the Point and principal Place) the Bookseller at the Arms of Basil to be diligent in this Affair, I repeat what I writ to you in my afore∣mention'd Pacquet, if you chance to write to me about any thing of Consequence: That it is my advice, that on the first oc∣casion of writing to me, you write a word or two to him in a Letter, in which be pleas'd to inclose some Gold-crowns, or some other piece of old Gold, as a Royal, an Angel or Salutation, in consideration of the pains and care he takes of them, so small a matter will more and more endear him to your Service.

Now, to Answer your Letters, I have diligently search'd the Registers of the Pa∣lace, since the time that you commanded me, that is, the year 1529, 1530, and 1531, to see if Dom. Phillippe's Act of Re∣signation to his Nephew were to be found, and have given the Clerks of the Register two Gold-crowns, which is but a small re∣compence for the great and tedious Trou∣ble in it. In short, they have found no∣thing of it, nor ever heard news of his Procurations; wherefore I doubt there is some foul play in his Case, or the Instru∣ctions

you writ to me were not sufficient to find 'em. And that I may be more cer∣tifi'd in it, you should tell me, cujus Dio∣cesis, of what Diocess the said Friar Dom. Phillippe was, and if you have heard no∣thing to give more light in the matter, as if it was pure & simpliciter, or causâ permu∣tationis.