Letter CLX. To Haimeric, the Chancellor, in the Name of the Same Bishop
(A.D, 1133.)
To his dearest lord, HAIMERIC, venerable Cardinal-deacon and Chancellor of the holy Roman Church, his servant STEPHEN, of Paris, sends loving and friendly greeting.
A friend is proved in time of necessity.1 say this, not that I have any doubt of your holy friendship for me, but to prevent any doubt from arising. But arise it undoubtedly will if I shall now find no sign of friendly zeal in you. Further, know that it will be to me an inexcusable proof of your want of zeal if Theobald Notier does not meet with what he deserves whenever a fitting opportunity arises; for through his heartless ambition he has cut away by the hands of his nephews the half of my soul, leaving the remaining half for nothing but cruel suffering.
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For his murderers, see note to ep. 150. Peter the Venerable also complains •of his murder (lib. i. ep. 17), and implies that he was taken off before Thomas of S. Victor in the following words: — "The impunity enjoyed by these men lends arms to their phrensy; and so the sword of the persecutors, after slaying the Subdean of Orleans, has been unsheathed against Thomas of Paris, just because the first was unavenged.'' Still, the contrary may be without difficulty inferred from this Letter of S. Bernard's. But John, the author of the death of Archembald, was possibly John, the Uean of Orleans, who met a like end. His death is recorded in the Lamentation ot that Church given by Stephen of ↩
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