Letter 10080: The case before you involves the bishop Dulcinius and property that belongs — or is claimed to belong — to the...
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$i revera Dulcinus episcopus substaniie $UM $eX un-
cias Ecclesie Locrensi el 8ex monasterio sancti Chri-
slophori reliquerit, nullam jam diclo monasterio mo-
lestiam irrogari paliatur. |
Gregorius Secundino episcopo Taurominitano.
Scripta ſraternitatis vestraz $uscepimus, in quibus
indicastis reverendissimum fratrem nosirum Mar-
cianum, Locrensis civilatis episcopum, aliter nobis
de causa Ecclesiz: contra monasterium $Sancti Chri-
$tophori, quod in vestra dicecesi est conslitutum,
intimasse, non gquidem fallendi voluntate, sed quia
Eeisr. XXXII. — © Vatic. D et Rhem., quo eum
vehementius slimulatum, elc.
Lege caus. 25, quzst. 2, cap. 5 el 4, caus. 10, ex
Toletano 1, et cap. 5, 4, 5, extra de divortiis. Haque
ea de qua hic agitur male secesserat, male habitum
religiosum induerat, male inconsulto episcopv, Cul
caus® cognitio ſuerat demanda!a, ad maritum redie-
rat. Nec tlamen diffiteor episcopum penam lan gra-
rem temere inflixisse. GUSSANVY.
EersT. XX XIll. — * Vide supra, epist. 8 lib. 1v.
Stolam exhibent, habet intrinsecus redderetur.
Evrisr. XXXILY. — * In Excusis, Euloqgio, reluctan-
ltibus omnibus quos consuluimus Mss. scilicet quin-
que Vatic., quatuor Colhert., seplem Norm., Tu-
ron., Rhem., Reg.
ter instructus. Et quoniam scribitis Dulcinum de-
ces8orem ipsius nihil de rebus Ecclesiz suz ſuisse
testatum, ed de propriis ac magis quz in predicto
monasterio fidelium oblatione collata $unt * elogium
condidisse, alque $ex uncias Ecclesiz et 8ex eidem
monaslerio jure hereditario reliquisse, necesse est
ut $i ita etiam non ex opinione, $ed absolute in ve-
rilate esse recolitis, nullam predicto monasterio $i-
natis molestiam irrogari, przcipue dum eamdem
causam jam tlemporibus reverende memorize. Maxi-
miani episcopi vos atque ſratrem et coepiscopum
nosirum Ruſfinum ex ejus deputatione ac cessione
audisse ac decidisse testemini, adeo ut inter parties
ea quz inveniri poterant partirentur, et quod Eccle-
B 8iz ſuit Þ intrinsecus redderetur. Volumus ergo ut
pars utraque conticeat, etea quz a ſfraternitate tua
una cum prxdicto Ruſffino quondam episcopo slatuta
s1mt inconvulsa consistant, quatenus nec pars Ec-
clesize denuo injuste quzestionem inferre, nec mona=
SLerium irrationabiliter videatur post vestram maxime
delinitiouem controversiam $uslinere.
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