If I adhered, moreover, to what they propose to me, I should not suffer this stroke.

All of our house have been persecuted by this sect, witness your good father, through whose intercession I hope to be received with mercy by the just judge.

I commend to you, then, my poor servants, the discharge of my debts, and the founding of some annual mass for my soul, not at your expense, but that you may make the arrangements, as you will be required when you learn my wishes through my poor and faithful servants, who are about to witness my last tragedy.

God prosper you, your wife, children, brothers and cousins, and above all our chief, my good brother and cousin, and all his.

The blessing of God and that which I shall give to my children be on yours, whom I do not commend less to God than my own son, unfortunate and ill-treated as he is.