Letter 9063: I am asking a favor. Laurentius — a man of distinction, who bears this letter — has business before Leontius that...
.Magnitudincm vestram tempore quo" hic Jn Romana urbe fuit cognovisse'' recoli-
mu8 Bonifatium quondam numeranum' coudito teatamento" partem aliquam hereditati»
Huae xenodochio, qnod ad sanctum Petnim apostolorum principem situm est', reliquisse.
Et quoniam gerere nos Bollicitudioem diximus, ut ad gloriosum tilium nostnun Leon-
tium' persona'' pro exponeudis ratiociiiiis ipsiue mitteretur, curam, ut compleri debuisset,
habuimus. Idcirco quia Laurentius vir clarisHimus praesentium portitor ad hoc illic '
QOHcitur esse transmissuB ', magnitudinem vestram patema dilectione salutantes petlmuB,
ut ei hac inc causa coDcurrere atque vestra, sicut de vobis confidimus, salva iusHtia
impendere patrocinia debeatis, quatenus, dum sincerissimae bonitatis vestrae fuerit ope
BuffultuB, et de viduitate muUeris quondam Bonifatii et de pauperibus, quibus, sicut
diximus, isdem Bonifatius hereditatis suae partem aliquam dereliquit, mercedem apud
omnipotentem Deum'' adquiratis.
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