My Lord
Necessitas not habet legem. 1 A Noble woman of Florence, who is the Bearer of this, and who had formerly the honour to be a Woman of Company in very good English Families, among which above all she remembers these three . . . . Olifant, Brawmill & Gage . . . . she now supplies 2 your very sensible 3 heart to buy two Stamps, that your only great value can render better, & worthy of your own high merit. Their price, whatever, tho’ little, shou’d be useful to her in her present estate; she hopes then, that her desire & prayer shall be wholly accomplished, if you shall say to Yourself – I will assist & protect an unfortunate, & the writer, who is
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at your commands
Pardon me pray, if unknown to You I wrote a page & a half.
In Casa Mariani
To My Lord.
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