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

-chies, which, with most augmented benefits, most honorable offices, most opulent pensions, and most rich revenues—full and overflowing—return to him the greatest and most certain annual income, he will not only satisfy his own most amply, but he will also receive those of yours who shall be delighted by Gaul most honorably, and will adorn them most liberally.

Nor is the most illustrious Duke of Anjou one who, swelling and fierce with his own forces or troops, would burst into your liberty, laws, and rights, and oppose the institutions of your ancestors and your native customs. For he is one who has no other armies, no other soldiers, than those you have kept in your hands, and who will always constitute the most firm foundations and bonds of your faith, love, and constancy, of his dignity, authority, and Royal majesty, if he shall reach this by your benefit. Yet, for him, if there were a question of preserving this most flourishing kingdom and defending its invincible borders, most friendly and allied Kings and other Princes would not be lacking.

And these things, indeed, while a more ample opportunity is given for me to expound to you what has been entrusted to me by the most Christian King and committed by the most illustrious Duke, I would desire most greatly to be understood by you, most illustrious, most reverend, and spectable Lords, a little more accurately, and to be valued according to their dignity and your most spectable prudence. For there are many other most important, most ample, and most grave matters, the heads of this entire business, which neither this epistle nor your