Letter 9206: Brother, the people of the castle of Callipolis live on land that belongs to the Roman church, and their pastoral...
Indicatum nobiB est, qnod bomineB Callipolitani caBtri, in quo te propitiaote
Domino* coQStituimuB Bacerdotem, gravibus diverBorum moIestiiB'' afHigantur atque
in longinquis angariis multisque diBpendiiB conterantur. Hortamur ergo fraternitatem
tuam, ut, quia et locua ipso nostrae, sicut cunctiB notum est, ecclesiae esee dinoscitur,
Bollicitudinem tuam rectae defensionb zelo succendas eoeque non permittas inlicitis"
praegravari^, quia et cxemplsria tibi privilegiorum ecclesiae dc scrinio noetro ad hoc
fecimuB dari, quatcnus informatus ex omnibua, qualiter habitatoree loci illius defensare
valeaB, noa igDorcB.
VolumuB ctiam, ut masBae ipsius Callipolitantifl ' homincB sub sollicitudinis tuae
cura a futura tertia indicdone habere debeas atque de eomm relevandiB moIestiiB eBso
cautiseimus; et adhibita Bollicitudinis cura uniuBCuinsque* vircB, quid' praeetare dc Bua
penmone ecclesiae utilitatibus valeant, caute cognoscere ac" secundum vires suaa ad
persolvendum quemquc disponere^. De qua ordinatione fratemitas tua suptiliter facta
Dotitia, quid dare ipsi hominea totius'' Callipolitanae masaae possunt, indicare non differas,
ut eciamns, quid exinde disponere auxiliante Domino yaleamus. Ad Sergium vero
defeneorem' praecopta direximus', ut in hac tibi^ ro non solum non audeat esse con-
trariuB, eed vobis magis ubi valuerit solacia summinietret'.
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