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Correspondence (1716–1725)

Eastern Patriarchs and the Nonjurors, ed. Williams, 1868

19. No. 19: Mr Cassano to the Nonjurors

HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN,

The Services I have done already and am like to do in respect to the Affairs which are going on is very well known to you all, particularly to those Persons who are to be sent to his Imperial Majesty’s Dominions. ‘Tis probable I must undertake the Fatigue of the Voyage to go with them again into those Parts, since the Reverend Protocyncellus is not able either to understand or converse with them; and to leave my Uncle alone as I have done already, will be no small Regret to me, finding him in a weak Condition, and in case any Thing extraordinary should happen to him, he will be destitute of all help and comfort, whom I am in Duty bound to give attendance at every Call in Case of need. Notwithstanding neither my Uncle nor I should ever be backward to obey your noble Assembly’s Commands in what will tend to the forwarding such a glorious Undertaking for the good of the Publick, unto which I do assure you I shall be ready on all occasions even to sacrificing my Life and Fortune.

Therefore if you should think that my going is very necessary and unavoidable, with Consent of my Uncle, I am ready to obey; only beg that your noble Assembly will be pleased, if you think fit, to honour me with some Character, when I go with those Persons, in your Letters to his Imperial Majesty, and to the Holy Synod, and to the Great Chancellor, which will be an encouragement to do the utmost that lyes in the Power of,
Honourable Gentlemen,
Your most Faithfull and very humble Servant,
BARTHOLOMEW CASSANO.

June 3rd, 1724.