Letter 9048: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
AD ANTHEMIUM SUBDIACONUM.,
Apud Felicem agat, ut recepia a Mauro pretii 8orte
8:4 contentus.
Gregorius Anthemio subdiacono.
Maurus przsentium portitor in quadringentis solidis
quasdam merces a Felice viro magniſico se asserit
8uscepisse, * alque promisisse $EX $iliquas per $0li-
dum lucri causa persolvere pretii. > Qua lucri quan-
litate in uno congest?, duas 88 cautiones, id est
uvam de quadringentis quinquaginta, el alleram de
quinquaginla 80lidis © emisisse, spondens cerlo lem-
pore quod debeat exsolvere. Sed quia, ut perhibet,
in eisdem mercibus pa-sus est non leve dispendium,
et reslilulis quadringentis decen solidis, quod reli-
quum lucri est implere compellitur, atque ex hoe
majori se necessitati ac potius desperationi ingemi
subjacere, el proplerea aliquo sibi subveniri pelit
auxilio; experientia tua, $i ita est, apud predicion
mulla dispendia preteritis commendet, consenticale
Rhemensi. Secutz 8umus Normannos omnes.
Eersr. XXXVIT [AL. 36]. — * De excommunice
tione monachorum pro culpis,- vide regulam sancl
Patris Benedicti, cap. 25, et quatuor Sequentibus.
Consule quoque Concordiam Regularum, cap, 59,
ubi de bac communicatione omuium ſere qui regulat
monaslicas promulgaruut consensus5 oslenditur.
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magnificum filiam nostrum una 95g cum reveren- A experientiz tuz * preceptione no8tre mandavimus
dissimo ſratre et coepiscopo nostro Fortunato, ac
glorioso filio nostro Maurentio magislro militum,
quia et ipsi seribimus, agere $tudeal ut hac in re,
sicut Chri-tianum decet et nobilem, plus benignus
quam Trigidus, plus misericors esse deb-at quam di-
. birictus, et Jucrum de damno alterius non exspectet,
sed 4 recepla pretii sit sorle contentus, quatenus
quidquid pauperi cesserit, omnipoteus ei Deus mul-
tiplicala gicut promisit restitutione compenset. Ita
ergo studiose experientia - tua agat, ut illi modis
omnibus hoc pro mercede ipsius imponere et huuc
ab aſflictione possit obligationis exuere.
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