Letter 12016: Laurentius is to help you with the financial accounts of the late Bonifatius.

To Azimarchus the Scribo [an imperial secretary]. That he show favor to Laurentius, who is setting forth before Leontius the accounts of Bonifacius, formerly accountant. Gregory to Azimarchus the Scribo. We recall that Your Greatness, at the time when you were here in the city of Rome, learned that Bonifacius, formerly an accountant, having drawn up his testament, left some part of his inheritance to the hospice for the poor which is situated at [the church of] Saint Peter, chief of the apostles. And since we said that we were taking care that a person be sent to our glorious son Leontius for the setting forth of his accounts, we took care that this ought to be carried out. Therefore, since Laurentius, a most distinguished man, the bearer of the present letter, is known to have been sent on for this purpose, greeting Your Greatness with fatherly affection, we ask that you ought, in this matter, to lend your assistance to him, and to extend your patronage, as we are confident concerning you, with justice preserved; so that, while he shall have been supported by the help of your most sincere goodness, both on behalf of the widowhood of the wife of the late Bonifacius, and on behalf of the poor to whom, as we say, the same Bonifacius left some part of his inheritance, you may acquire a reward in the sight of Almighty God.

AD AZIMAKCHOM SCRIBONEM. Laurentio Boniſacii quondam numerarii rationes apud Leontium exponenti ſaveat. Gregorius Azimarcho Scriboni. Þ Magnitudinem vestram, quo lempore hic in 'Ro- mana urbe ſuit, cognovisse recolimus Boniſacium quondam numerarium, condilo testamento, L 19] partem aliquam hereditatis sn2# xenodochio quod ad sanctum Petrum apostolorum principem situm est reliquisse. Et quoniam gerere nos soliicitudinem diximus ut ad gloriosum filium nostrum Leontium persona pro exponendis ratiociniis ipsius mitteretur, curam ut compleri debuisset habuimus. Idcirco quia Laurentius vir clarissimus preasentium portitor ad hoc illud noscitur esse transmissus, magnitudi- nem veslram paterna dilectione salutantes, petimus ut ei hac in causa concurrere, alque vestra, sicut de vobis confidimus , salva justitia impendere patroci- nia debeatis, qualenus dum sinceri>zsime bonitalis vestre ſueril ope suſſultus, et de viduitale mulieris quondam Boniſacii, et de pauperibus quibus, sicut dicimus, idem Bonifacius heredilatis suz partem aliquam dereliquit,, mercedem apud omnipotentem. Dewn acquiratis.