Letters44 Letter XLIV. To the same, on the same subject (Circa A.D. 1128)
Letter XLIV. To the same, on the same subject (Circa A.D. 1128)
You see how often I count on your bounty, so that I do not fear, although I have received so much from you, to make myself again an importunate suppliant and to weary you with new demands. My presumption, indeed, is great, but it does not merit indignation, since it is caused by affection and not by want of consideration. Your Paternity remembers, I doubt not, that when I was lately at Troyes you were so good as to relinquish for the love of God, and at my entreaty, all the claims which you had made against the monks of Molesme on the Church at Senan. Now, the same monks complain that I know not what new, and, as they say, undue praerogatives are asserted over the forenamed Church. I beseech you that these also may be remitted, and trust that in this even you will not refuse me, so that, as you have granted me the greater favours, so I may be successful in obtaining the lesser. Farewell.
Videtis certe quantum praesumam de vestra benevolentia: ut nec crebra impetratio preces finiat, et toties exauditus, rursum accedere precator importunus non verear. Magna quidem praesumptio; sed non meretur indignationem, quoniam de charitate, non de temeritate descendit. Meminit, nisi fallor, vestra Paternitas, quod dudum Trecis querelas universas, quas pro Ecclesia Senoina adversus Molismenses monachos ante habueratis, pro amore Dei et nostro penitus omisistis. Et ecce iidem monachi conqueruntur, quod nescio quas novas, et, ut ipsi aiunt, indebitas vobis consuetudines in praedicta Ecclesia vindicetis. Obsecro ergo et ipsas dimitti, confidens me, ne hac quidem vice passurum repulsam: ut qui jam de majoribus merui non repelli, in obtinendis minoribus non confundar Valete.