Letters474 Letter CDLXXIV. To Adelaide, Queen of France.

To the illustrious Queen of France: B[ernard], Abbot of Clairvaux, health and the assurance of his prayers.

I venture to submit a request to you, and that with confidence, though not as relying upon any knowledge or intimacy which so humble a person as myself may have with your Highness, but rather upon your well-known kindness and liberality. Wicard, your servant, complains of you, that although he knows of no offence of which he has been guilty, he has been deprived of all his goods unjustly and sent into exile by you. And since I have learned that this man has the good resolution of deserting the world and turning unto the Lord. 1 I consider it not an unsuitable thing for me to ask or for you to grant that you should both take him back into your favour,, and restore to him the whole or at least a part of his property.

I also commend unto you, if he or I have found any favour in your eyes, this pious man, the Abbot of 2 Beaulieu, who from interest in this matter has taken the trouble to bring this letter of mine to you from a great distance. Let it be your care then, that he has not endured this fatigue to no purpose. Farewell.