Part 24 (1/2)

I made this September 3, 1698.

MOLINELLUS.

SEPTEMBER 4, 1698.

When he had made statement of fact, R. D. Alexander Ca.s.sar, Subst.i.tute Procurator of the Poor, appeared, pet.i.tioned, and was granted as above.

By the Governor in criminal causes, or the Most Excellent Lord Venturini.

Let those named below be cited for learning of the appeal and its lawful prosecution, this fourth time, and of the final presentation, and the decree, etc., at the aforesaid instance of Domenico Tighetti, heir-beneficiary of the former Francesca Pompilia, formerly wife of the former Guido Franceschini, as princ.i.p.al, or, etc.

CHARITAS.

D. Giovanni Maria Serbucci, as Procurator and Manager of the lawsuit brought by the former Guido Franceschini as princ.i.p.al on the other side.

D. Francesco Paracciani, as Procurator of the Venerable Monastery and Convent of Santa Maria Magdalena in the Corso, for all, etc.

I have done this, September 4, 1698

BALATRESIUS.

_September 5, 1698._

When he had made statement of fact, R. D. Alexander Ca.s.sar, Subst.i.tute Procurator of the Poor, appeared, pet.i.tioned, and was granted, as above.

I, Domenico Barlocci, Notary of the Court of Criminal Causes of the Most Ill.u.s.trious and Most Reverend Governor of the City, as Notary for the Poor, have found this copy correct by collating it, although it was extracted from the original doc.u.ments by one who is trustworthy in my eyes, etc. In pledge of the above, I have subscribed and have published it, as I am required to do.

[The seal of the said Notary.]

THE SECONDARY SOURCE

OF

THE RING AND THE BOOK

A CONTEMPORARY Ma.n.u.sCRIPT PAMPHLET

”The following pages contain a MS. contemporaneous account of the execution of the princ.i.p.al actors in the tragedy which has been immortalised in the poem of the _Ring and the Book_.

”I am enabled by the kindness of my friend, Mr. Browning, to give it a place in these Miscellanies of the Philobiblion Society.”

JOHN SIMEON.

(I shall not attempt to say with what a feeling I correct proof-sheets received on the day subsequent to that which brought the intelligence of the death of this great-hearted and n.o.ble-minded man, characteristically good and gracious to the very last.)

R. B., May 24, 1870.

The above words are the introduction by Sir John Simeon and the comment by the poet (Philobiblion Society Miscellanies, xii. 1868-9), on the reprint of the subsequent pamphlet in the original Italian.