Letter 7037: Fifteen pounds of silver are owed to Faustinus.
AD DONUM EPISCOPUM.
Faustino quindecim argenti libras, aut ex Ecclesi@
pecunia, aut e sacralis vasis, in filiarum redemptio-
nem [ribuat.
Gregorius * Dono episcopo Messanensi.
Et sacrorum canonum (Gra!, 12, q. 2, c. 414), et
legalia statula permiltunt- ministeria Ecclesiz pro
captivorum esse redemptione vendenda. Et ideo +
quoniam Faustinus lator prasentium, ut filias Suas
de jugo poluisset captivitatis exuere, trecentorum
triginta Solidorum probatur debitum contraxisse, ex
quibus triginta redditis, ad relique quantitatis re-
slitutionem eum certum est non posse suſficere,
ſraternitatem tuam his hortamur affatibus ut de ar-
gento Meriensis Ecclesiz, Þ cujus miles esse digno-
scitur, quod apud vos est, quindecim ei libras acce-
pto ab eo © desuscepto dare amodis omnibus debea-
lis, ut eo venundato, et restituto. debito , F&7
necessitate valeat obligationis absolvi. Sed et illud
ſraternitas vestra debet esse s$ollicita, ut siquidem
de predicta Ecclesia ® usuale argenium est, 8upra-
Scriptam quantitatem accipiat; alioquin de sacratis
v0s$ vasis hac in re eam quam prediximus quanti-
laltem prebere necesse est. Nam (CGrat. 12, g. 2,
c. 16) sicut omnino grave est frustra ecclesiastica
Ministeria venundare, $ic iterum culpa est, imimi-
venti hujusmodi necessilate, res maxime desolale
Leclesize captivis $suis pr:xponere, et in corum re-
demptione ces8are.
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