Having resolved on Tuesday last our cause
I' the guilty sense, with death for punishment,
Spite of all pleas by me deducible
In favor of said Blessed Memory,—
I, with expenditure of pains enough,
Obtained a respite, leave to claim and prove
Exemption from the law's award,—alleged
The power and privilege o' the Clericate:
To which effect a courier was dispatched.
But ere an answer from Arezzo came,