Letter 10066: The monastery founded by Adeodatus may be consecrated.
AD DECIUM LILYBETANUM EPISCOPUM.
Solitis cautionibus udhibitis, cons!ructum ab Adeodala
monaslerium consecret.
Gregorius Decio episcopo ® Lilybelano.
Adeodata gloriosa ſemina petitoria nobis insinua-
tions Suggessit quod habetur in subditis : in domo
ziquidem juris $ui intra civitatem Filybetanam mo-
naSterium ancillarum Dei a $olo 8@ pro $ua devo-
tione ſundasse, quod in honorem beati Petri princi-
pis apostolorum, et sanciorum Christi mariyrum
Laurentii, Hermetis, Pancratii, Sebastiani et Agne-
lis desiderat consecrari. Et ideo, frater charissime,
quia in tua civitate memorala constructio jure con-
Sistit, $i nullum corpus ibidem constat humatum,
percepta prius donatione legilima, id est, in reditu
prxslantes liberos a tributis fiscalibus solidos decem,
pueros tres, boum paria tria, mancipia alia quz $er-
riant in ips0 monaslerio numero quinque, equas nu-
mwero decem, vaccas decem, haslulas vinearum nu-
mero quatuor, oves numero quadraginla, etc., 8e-
cundum morem.
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