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<span class="mu-i">Your Worship</span>
By your will I have enquired into the affair involving the AB Archbishop L. of B..
The Witch-hunters were not mistaken in that <span class="mu-s">Di</span>abolism was conducted with his knowledge, nor the immediate execution untried of his person and those with him unjustified. It is my recommendation that they be given Notes of Lesser Reprimand and be reinstated to their former duties unprejudiced. Their action was warranted by an extremity of circumstance.
Though we should like that L. be discovered according to the Laws governing such matters, extending L. the offer of Repentance would have risked all the lives involved, and likely the opportunity to continue his efforts redoubled, knowing how short his time. The Witchhunter Principal made a co<span class="mu-s">mm</span>and decision: it was not meet for his faithful troop to bear the risk for one who has so desdained his soul.
It is true: L. <span class="mu-i">did</span> consort with the False, and <span class="mu-i">did</span> by their assistance and advice conduct Rites through which the attainment of some Object was sought, though not known if it is truly his own desire or their design. As far as we know, he is damned. May the Charity extend to him, even to him.
The seeds of doubt that trouble us now come not from hasty judgment, but from a lack of knowledge only: were the ones called up by L. tr<span class="mu-s">u</span>ly demons? And if they were, how was their appearance and manner so unfamiliar?
The Diabolic Summons and all entailed were usual, ascertained through my own contacts familiar with such matters. The original Proscribed Work containing those formulas is comparable, even identical, to those seized from other cases of Diabolism. The only difference is the result of their performance by L.
It is my postulate that L.'s uncharacteristic Demons only appear when they are Summoned by the Sanctified, or, less likely, in the presence of one. Proof I have none, outside of unreliable fragments.
The Cardinal Power they serve styles itself a <span class="mu-s">Qu</span>een, in rivalry or parody of Our Lady. Their aim, if I must guess, might be the destruction in the completest sense of those that have been Called to the Charity.
Yet if there had been so committed an Adversary, how should we of the Cloth have never heard of it, even those of us sworn against them especially?
Here my own intuition troubles me, which though again without proof of substance, yet I feel very sure: we have never heard of these because they have always been with us, and those of us that have trafficked and contracted with them have never been brought to light, nor betrayed them.
It is my belief that L. was not the first, and at this time not the only. With Your Worship's leave, I would request Exceptional Remit to fully pursue the matter.
Your Obedient Servant
R. F.
