Letter 9029: The revenues and properties belonging to the Roman church from Syracuse, Catania, Agrigento, and Messana require...

[The OCR source for this letter is heavily corrupted, with the right margin of nearly every line cut off; only line-fragments survive. What follows renders the legible portions, with [...] marking genuine gaps.] [...] our care admonishes us [concerning] the advantages of the Church [...] to persons. And therefore, since we have proved you to have shown yourself a faithful Roman defensor [legal advocate of the Church], [and since] the patrimony of the holy Roman [Church], which to God [...], in the districts of Syracuse, of Catania, and of Agrigentum [...] from the present second indiction [tax-year] has been entrusted to your governance [...], it is necessary that you proceed there impartially, so that, mindful also of the divine admonition, [you may conduct yourself] so effectively and so faithfully [...] lest, through negligence or fraud—which God forbid—you be found to incur danger [...]; so that by your fidelity and your diligence you may [commend yourself] to the divine grace [...]. But the precepts concerning that same patrimony we have, according to custom, set forth [...] for carrying out those things which have been enjoined upon you, that you may be able in any matter [...].

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