Monsieur¹,

I have such great assurance of your competence, prudence, capability, and other merits that I most willingly grant you what you ask. May God give you the grace to acquit yourself worthily of it, as I trust you shall.

In token of the above, I have signed this note for you on the twentieth day of June, 1616.

Mauljean

1. Letter 5. – Reg. I, f^o 1. Edmond Mauljean wrote his reply following Vincent de Paul’s request.