Letter 4050: You have the authority I am giving you for this purpose.
AD JOANNEM ABBATEM.
Ad monasterium sancti Andrea proficiscatur , vitios0s
coerciturus ac puniturus.
Gregorius Joanni abbati * de Regio
Ea que ad correptionem religiosarum pertinent
personarum nos prelerire nec decet, nec convenit.
Pervenit itaque ad nos in monaslerio sancli Andrez,
quod juxta » Vulcanum est positum, multa perpe-
lrari facinora. Atque ideo auctoritalis nostre pre-
ceptione 8u{7:!:um ad id te-monasterium prolicisci
necesse est, et omnia que dicuntur sublili investi-
gatione discutere. Et $i ita, quod absit, inveneris,
Sic in jllos regulariter vindicabis, ut digna eos coer-
citio a pravis et illicitis de cxtero doceat aclibus
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