Letter 11015: The financial accounting for Bonifatius needs to be completed, and Laurentius needs your assistance to accomplish this.

Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)Romanus, Patrician, and Exarch of Italy|c. 598 AD|Pope Gregory the Great
property economics

AD ROWANUM DEFENSOREM.
Laurentium juvet in finiendis Boniſacii numerari 14-
| lionibus.
Gregorius Romano deſensori.

quoniam sanctam Romanam, cui, auctore Deo, LIGY yz Experientiam 1am non latet in rationibus Boni-

deservimus, Ecclesiam, et conjugem $uam, quz $e
luitioni ecclesiasticz postea commendavit, heredes,
necnon et ſilium ſratris sui, Þ in unam unciam he-

_ redem idem noscitur reliquisse ; ea propter statim ut -

hoe precepinum susceperis, anlequam eum quisquam
obiisse cognoscat, et in substantia illius aliquid frau-
dis committat, ad locum in quo res ejus 8unt recon-
ditz? vine mora curabis accedere, et cum omni solli-
citudine ac diligentia studii tui sit, praesente Consentio
puero, qui rerum ipsarum esse custos asseritur, adhi-
bitis testibus, solemniter ac subliliter facere, easque
. res in loco twtissimo, ut ulile previderis, collocare,
quatenus apto terapore huc. cum eodem puero, Deo
auxiliante, valeant (ransmitti. Sed et cztera, in qui-
buslibet rebus © 8ive corporibus quz de 8nbstantia
ipsius esse didiceris, com omni strenuitate in unum
congregare et constituere festina, ut nihil de ejns
possit qualibet occasione deperire subs{antia. Hzc
jgitur omnia ita soHficita et subtili stude cura pera-
gere, ut 1e Nie posito ne dispendium in rebus ipsis
eveniat, et cujuslibet fraudis «ub qualibet occasiono
4 8jive exquisitione tocus aliquis patere non valeat.
Summa vero redituam ejus quz sit nobis pariler tuis
8Criplis indicare ſeslina.

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