Letter 9239: We have learned that you have been placed in charge of the public patrimony, and we count on your diligence to serve...

Since we ought to presume upon you with such great affection that, if the interests of our church were being pursued before others, we would there call upon your glory as a helper, we have good reason, because the cause rests with you, to rejoice that it is not fitting for you to neglect what, for love of the blessed Peter, chief of the apostles, you yourselves were able to render before others. Since, therefore, we have learned that the care of the public patrimony has been committed to your administration, we therefore, greeting you with fatherly tenderness, commend to you the patrimony of our church in accordance with justice. So that, should it perhaps happen, as is wont to occur, that public men, once an occasion has been found, should wish to bring some annoyance upon it, may the goodness of your magnitude not permit this to be done, but rather may it protect that property and its men from all disturbance; and may it dutifully, with due regard for the poor, attend to their portions, so that almsgiving may fulfill its office while justice is preserved, and that from this a greater reward may accrue to you before God. We exhort you therefore, most glorious son, so to show yourselves benevolent toward the interests of our church, which you love, as you ought to be in all things, to the end that you may both wholesomely discharge what has been enjoined upon you and, what must be most earnestly striven for, may render Almighty God favorable to you.

Cum tanta nos de vobis oporteat caritate praesumere, ut, si ecclesiae nostrae utilitates apud alios» agcrentur, vestram illic adhiberemus** 'gloriam adiutricem, satis n») dominus C3. ita Cl; inoboedientiae ex oboediae corr. C2 m, 2; oboedientia C3. «>) volumua C2. 3. V) causa om., ted tuppl. m, 2 C2, q) gramen codd,n., $ed corr, m.2 C2. ex augere corr. C2. ■) cum om. C 1. *) tractaute C2, «) perpendit C3, IX, 238 in titulo: Cathenensi Cl. 2; Catheueusi C1.3 in indicibus; Chateneuw C3; Kathaueusi C*l. — Poet titulum ante Filius in marg. add. scripta C 1. ») lab. seut. C2. ^) quietem suam codd, n. «) ita Cl.2; «erius C3. IX, 239 in tUulo: Talitani Cl et in ind. C 1. 3; Talittani corr. in Tallitano C2; Talitano C3; Talano Cl in arg.; Talatano C2 in arg. ») alias C 1. adheremut» C3. 2) Cf. ep. IX, 234. IX, 238. De Leofie cf. ep. VI, 30 n. 1) De Secero cf. ep. V, 34 n. IX, 239. Talitanus quo munere fundus sU, duhito: comUis largitionuM an privatarum an patri- monU? In Itaiia, m SicUia, in Bdlia et SicUia? Reg. Greg. II. 30 23-4 • GREGORII 1. REGISTRl *. * * *. /;dfebemu8, quoniam in vobis est causa, gaudere, quia vos non oportet*^ neglegere, quod amore beati Pctri apostolorum principis praestare^ ipsi apud alios poteratiB. Quia igitur comperimus publici patrimonii curam vestrae'' esse ordinationi^ commissam, id- circo patema dulcedine salutantes patrimonium vobis nostrae* ecclesiae secundum iustitiam commendamus. Quo ne forte, iieri ut assolet, occasione inventa homines publici quandam vellent^» infcrri molestiam, hoc magnitudinis vestrae bonitas* fieri non permittat, scd ab omni illud hominesque ipsius inquietudinc tueatur picque salva ratione pauperum partes attendat ut elemosina vicem impleat servata iustitia et vobis ex hoc ante Deum maior mercos^ adcrescat. Uortamur ergo, gloriosissime fili°°, ut ita benignos vos exhibere tam° circa ecclesiac nostrae, quam diligitis, utilitates, quam etiam in omnibus debeatis, quatenus et iniuncta salubriter oxpleatis^ et omnipotentem vobisi" Deum, quod summopere studendum est, placabilem faciatis.