Epistola Ioannis Monlucii, episcopi Valentini regis Gallorum legati ad Poloni[a]e Ordines de Illustrissimo Andium duce in Regnum Polonicum allegendo

TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS, MOST REVEREND, SPECTABLE, MAGNIFICENT, AND GENEROUS LORDS, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, PALATINES, CASTELLANS, AND OTHER DIGNITARIES AND OFFICIALS, AND TO THE ENTIRE NOBILITY OF THE MOST AMPLE REPUBLIC OF POLAND, LITHUANIA, RUSSIA, PRUSSIA, MASOVIA, ETC., ASSEMBLED IN THE CONVENTION OF WARSAW.
To these most observant Lords, health, happiness, and peace.

A decorative drop cap 'V' features floral and foliate scrollwork.

WHILE I, and Mallocius together with me, a most upright senator in the Senate of Grenoble, were setting out to you, most illustrious, most reverend, magnificent, spectable, and generous Lords, as ambassadors from the most Christian King of the Gauls, behold, Mallocius was suddenly intercepted by a difficult illness and left the embassy orphaned. As for me, with an incredible desire to greet you and to fulfill the duties of this most illustrious office, I persisted in the embassy, though I was retarded and almost recalled not by the length of the journey, nor the roughness of the roads, nor my grave state of health, nor an age already affected by many labors, but by ambushes set and arranged in almost every place. We did, however, escape and overcome them, with the assistance and v-