This and all else may God pardon.

Amen.
"A.

T." "He visiteth the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation." [To this extraordinary document was appended a note in another handwriting.] "There is little doubt that the Ruby now in the possession of Mr.Amos Trenoweth is the veritable Great Ruby of which the traveller Marco Polo speaks.

But, however this may be, I know from the testimony of my own eyes that the stone is of inestimable worth, being of the rarest colour, and in size greatly beyond any Ruby that ever I saw.

The stone is spoken of, in addition to such writers as Mr.Trenoweth quotes, by Friar Jordanus (in the fourteenth century), who mentions it as 'so large that it cannot be grasped in the closed hand'; and Ibn Batuta reckons it as great as the palm of a man's hand.
Cosmos, as far back as 550, had heard tell of it from Sopater, and its fame extended to the sixteenth century, wherein Corsali wrote of 'two rubies so lustrous and shining that they seem a flame of fire.' Also Hayton, in the thirteenth century, mentions it, telling much the same story as Sir John Maundevile, to the effect that it was the especial symbol of sovereignty, and when held in the hand of the newly-chosen king, enforced the recognition of his majesty.