Letter XX. To Haimkric, the Chaxcellor, Ox the Same Subject

(Circa A.D. 1127.)

To the illustrious Lord HAIMERIC, Chancellor of the Holy Roman See, Brother BERXARD, of Clairvaux, health and prayers.

Since I have once begun, permit me to speak to you, even though I shall make myself importunate; but importunate for charity, truth, and justice. For although I am not of sufficient importance to have at Rome business of my own, yet I do not regard any of the affairs of God as things in which I have no concern. Wherefore, if I have with you still the favour which many people suppose, permit me to beg you to forward the deputies of the Lord Archbishop of Rheims in their present business. I am sure that they neither resist for themselves nor ask from another anything but what is just.