INSTRUMENT OF FINAL JUDGMENT

[PAMPHLET 18.]

Given for the restoration of the good name and reputation of Francesca

Pompilia, now dead; formerly the wife of Guido Franceschini of Arezzo,

now dead; for acquittal in favour of Domenico Tighetti, as an heir

beneficiary of the same Francesca Pompilia, from all disquietude, all

molestations, vexations, and perturbations, brought or threatened to

be brought by the Venerable Monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene of the

Convertites in the Corso; together with the citations lawfully

executed in observation of the four terms to instruct themselves as to

the appeal and its legal prosecution, in order that the same sentence

might pass on, as it has passed on, to judgment, because no appeal has

been interposed.

In the name of God, Amen.

September 9, 1698, under the sixth declaration in the eighth year of

the Pontificate of the Most Sacred Father in Christ, etc., Innocent

XII., Pope by Divine Providence. This is a copy, or transcript, of the

citations made by my own act, and written below, and of the sentence

rendered respectively of the following tenor, namely:

The Most Reverend and Most Illustrious Governor in criminal matters:

Let the undernamed principals on the other side be cited, etc., to

appear in the Criminal Court to-morrow, which will be the nineteenth

day of the current month, at the accustomed hour of convening court,

lest it seem good that each and all the terms be repeated as ill

founded, and that they therefore are to be held and observed as null

and void in their force for any powers whatsoever, and lest the one so

insisting be freed from censures, so far as, etc., it be concluded, or

seem best to be concluded in the case, and that the final sentence be

heard in due form according to the aforesaid insistence by Domenico

Tighetti, heir-beneficiary of the former Francesca Pompilia, the wife

of the former Guido Franceschini, as principal, or, etc.

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