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To Monseigneur,
Monseigneur
the most Illustrious and Most Reverend Archbishop of Besançon, Monsieur Ferdinand de Rye, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Abbot of Saint Oyan de Joux commonly known as Saint Claude, Cherlieu, etc.
Monseigneur,
It is to you that the credit is due for the partial purging of your land of Saint Claude from witches, that vermin which had long been multiplying and would have infected many dis-
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