Letter 12042: Romanus, I have instructions for you regarding the current state of the Sicilian patrimony.
AD ROMANUM DEFENSOREN.
Salustium admoneat ne posthac Luminoso Ecclesie
8ervo sil moles!us.
Gregorius Romano deſensori.
Luminosus przsentium lator violentiam $e ux0-
remque- Suam a Salustio viro clarissimo ASSCrens
zuslinere , huc necessilate eadem faciente venire
compulsus est. Unde quia servum ganctz Marie,
quod est * parochiz Grumentine, 8e esse as8erit,
necesse est ut ecclesiastica tuitione valletur. Expe-
rientia itaque tua prezfato supplici ecclesiastica 10n
desiciat impertiri s6latia, eumque de quo queritur
admonere, quatenus se ab eorum inquietudine com-
pescat. Si vero est quod 8ibi in eis rationabiliter
dicat posse compelere , electorum judicio lermine-
tur, tuaque quidquid definitum Merit ex8ecutione
modis omnibus impleatur.
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