Letter 10124: A dispute has arisen between the bishops Sabinianus and Theodorus about expenses incurred for hospitality, and also...
AD FANTINUM DEFENSOREM.
Causas Sabinianum inter et Theodorum episcopum ,
tum de impensis in hospites, tum de alits 8u0 judicio
definiat.
Gregorius Fantino deſensori,
Sabinianus vir clarissimus, prasentium lator, no-
bis indicavit hanc olim jbi consueludinem convenisse,
ut, diversis supervenientibus , cives ejusdem Ci-
lilatis * de proprio expensas impenderent. De qua
re dum $e quererentur aſſligi, hoc illis cum Theo-
Ecclesia ejus eerlz portiones $ubstantiz suz Jdona-
tione conscribereatur, et hoc in Se onus SuSCiperet,
atque, Securis eis redditis, ip+e de Ecclesia quidquid
essel necessarium , erogaret, Se vero per tertiam
decimam et primam indictiones, quibus predieiz ci-
vitati deſensoris officium tenuit, absente episcopo,,
de proprio expendisse quod de Ecclesia puterat ero-
gari. Et quia $ibi quod expendit postulat debere re-
$lilui, idcirco experientie luz pracipimus ul reveren-
dissimo fratri et coepiscopo nostro Decio $tndeat
imminere, quatenus aut pacifica, $i ita est, cum eo
ordinatione decidat ; aut certe $i qua $e ratione a
restitutione expensarum credit deſendere posse, Þ in
judicio tuo assislat. Et exquisila LOGO diligentius
B veritale, ita quidquid Ubi zquitatis ordo suaserit, mora
poslposila delinito , ut et rationabiliter causa finem
accipiat, elpartesapud tenulla ſatiget *in observatione
dilatio. Si autem donationes, de quibus dictum est,
Ecclesizz $uxz ess& Onerosas Cxistimat , et reddere
eas donatoribus forlasse voluerit , si qui ex eis qui
cas recipiunt clerici Sunt, a le Similiter moneantur
ut aut 8ecundum portiones $uas quze erant $oliti dare
persolvant, aut certe si causari voluerint, contentio-
nes parlium tua necesse est Cognitione disLlingui , ut
nulla se pars inaudita queratur prajudicium $usti-
nere. Alias vero causas quas cum memoralo reve-
rendissimo viro ſraltre nostro suprascriptus portitor
habere prasentes 8e asserit, tuo similiter volumus ,
mediis 8acris Evangeliis, judicio deſiniri.
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