Most Reverend Father in Jesus Christ,
IT would be hard for us to express with what com∣fort & contentment we have understood the just & honorable conclusion of which the affair of your most R L. hath had in the Sacred General Council with the universal consent of all those holy and lear∣ned Fathers, and in presence of all the Ambassadors of the Princes of Christendome. But you may well conceive the same by the Singular affection which we have alwayes born to you, and by the desire as well as the firme and just hope which we have had that your innocence would be thus acknowledg'd & manifest to all the world. VVherefore we ex∣treamly rejoyce with you both for your particular interest, and chiefly for our own, Your most Reve∣rend Lordship being not onely born a Gentleman of our Republick, but of a family so honourable and to which we have so many obligations. And being this so high and so honourable and so soveraign As∣sembly hath favour'd with its praises not onely the judgement but also the testimony which we gave to the Pope, and where else it was needful, of your most Reverend Lordship, as knowing very well the ver∣tuous, religious and Catholick life which you have al∣wayes led, we have all grounds to desire and hope (as we shall do with all sort of affection and reason) that God who is the fountain of justice and of all good, having been pleased that the calumnies un∣justly made against you, are surmounted by the truth, you will also surmount the Obstacle which had been layd against your most Reverend Lordship to the publication of that dignity which the honou∣rable qualityes of your person, vertue, piety and integrity have caused you to merit and obtain. Gi∣ven in our Ducal Palace the 29th. of September, MDLXIII.
GRIOLAMO PRIƲLI by the grace of God Duke of ƲENICE.
And on the backside it was inscrib'd, To the most Reverend Father in God, M. John Grimani by the grace of God most worthy Patriarch of Aquileia.