Crossword-Solution: DATARY 6 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

There was in the presence a certain Messer Tommaso, of Prato, his HolinessÆ Datary; [1] and this man, being a friend of my enemies, put in: ōMost blessed Father, the favours you are showering upon this young man (and he by nature so extremely overbold) are enough to make him promise you a new world.

The Pope took my patent and handed it to the Datary, telling him to lose no time in dispatching the business.

For every indulgence obtained from the datary's office, a stipulated sum was paid; nearly all the disputes occurring at this period between the states of Europe and the Roman Court arose out of these exactions, which the Curia sought by every possible means to increase, while the people of all countries as zealously strove to restrain them.

Maria Ritonda, and for making an altar, with a marble statue of Our Lady, in that church, which he chose as his place of repose and burial after death; and he left all the rest to Giulio and Giovanni Francesco, appointing as executor of his will Messer Baldassarre da Pescia, then Datary to the Pope.

There, after the Datary had seen the pictures and appraised them at their true worth, the young man and his uncle were straightway introduced to Pope Clement, who, seeing the works and the youthfulness of Francesco, was struck with astonishment, and with him all his Court.