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The words, badly faded by the action of the water which had apparently got into the casket during its years of submersion, we made out as follows:
"Ye who hast dared to learn this secret may ye benefit greatly by it. Know ye now also that ye may discover the treasure of our good abbot John of Croylande by means only of this plan I have hereunto drawn.