Letter 12039: From the estate of the late deacon Servideus, you are to distribute the following: ten horses are to go to the...

To Fantinus the defensor [a Church official charged with protecting Church property]. That, from the inheritance of Servusdei the deacon, he is to hand over ten mares to the hospice [xenodochium] and four to Luminosa, handmaid of God. Gregory to Fantinus the defensor. We believe that your Experience [a title of address] has already learned that our most beloved son Servusdei the deacon has left as his heir the holy Roman Church which, with God as its author, we serve. And since under the heading of a legacy he appointed that four head of mares be given to Luminosa, handmaid of God, who is closely related to him [...], and since we, at the request of our most beloved son Florentinus the deacon, have provided that ten head of mares together with their stallion be bestowed upon the hospice of the Anicii, over which he is recognized to preside, we therefore command you by this injunction that to the bearer of these present letters, who has been sent there from the workshop for this purpose, [...] both the four which have been bequeathed and the ten head of mares which we have granted to the hospice -- from the mares, indeed, of the aforesaid deacon together with the stallion -- you are to hand over without any excuse or delay.

AD FANTINOM DEFENSOREM. Ez Servidei diaconi hereditate , zenodochio tradat equas decem Luminose ancille Dei quatuor. . Gregorius Fanlino deſensori, Experientiam tuam jam credimus cognovisse, di- lectissimum filium nostrum * Servumdei diaconum , heredem $sanctam Romanam Ecclesiam, cui, Deo avclore, deservimus, reliquisse. Et quia legati titulo quatuor equarum capita Luminosz ancillz Dei proxi- me 8uz dari constituit, atque n's, petente dilectis- 8mo filio nostro Florentino diacono, xenodochio Anichiorum, cui praeesse dignoscitur, decem equa- rum capita Þ cum emissario suo pravidimus largien- da, hac tibi idcirco preceptione mandamus ut latori presentium, qui ad hoc illie ex opere missus est , Non ita de episcopis, ut dictum $svpra. Gussaxv. 4 Dicimus de plano, Unde cognitio planaria in jure, etc., id est, sine Strepitu judicii, Guss8anv. In orn. autem, consentientibus vet. Excusis, legitur, aut plano adhortationis vestre moderamine, 0miss0 a. * lia in tribus Vatic. etin vet. Colbert. In alio Colbert., mense Aug., quod eliam lego in Excusis. Eersr. XXXIX [Al. 43]. — ® Idem esse videtur de quo libro 1 epist. 44, col. 556. Eeist. XL [Al. 45]. — * Venantiug: hunc alium | SANCTI GREGORII! MAGNI et alienandi licentia, LQQ7J ita de eis quas ante A tam quatuor que legata sunt, quam decem equarum capita quas xenodochin concessimus, de equabug 1208 przſati quidem diaconi simul et emissarium ine aliqua debeas excusatione vel mora contradere.