Be it known unto all who keep a kitchen, and unto such authorities as may later own this warrant, that the bearer, having made a temporal offering at the rate presently advertised, is hereby remitted of the petty guilt attaching to the dishes left unwashed until the morrow.
Whereas the vessels were used in good faith, and whereas the hour was late, and whereas the sponge had become an argument, the Office of Temporal Offerings — acting under faculties presently in force, from a See we are not at liberty to identify — declares this lapse to be of a venial and domestic character.
This instrument does not wash the dishes. It does not prevent their being left again. It declares only that the stain upon the conscience, being small, is here accounted small, and that the morning may begin without a sermon on the subject.
Given under our uncertain seal, in the year of a calendar we all agree upon, if on little else.