Letter 11015: The financial accounting for Bonifatius needs to be completed, and Laurentius needs your assistance to accomplish this.

To Romanus the Defensor. [Rubric:] That Laurentius is to be assisted in settling the accounts of Boniface. [...] Gregory to Romanus the Defensor. Since it does not now escape your Experience [i.e. you are by now aware], from the accounts of Boniface, that he is known to have left as his heirs the holy Roman Church, which we serve under God as its author, and his wife, who afterward commended herself to the protection of the Church, and also the son of his brother, made heir to the extent of one ounce [uncia, a twelfth share]: for this reason, as soon as you have received this our instruction, before anyone learns that he has died and commits any fraud against his estate, you shall without delay take care to go to the place where his property is stored away, and let it be done, with all the solicitude and diligence of your zeal, in the presence of the boy Consentius, who is asserted to be the keeper of those very things, and with witnesses called in, solemnly and carefully; and you shall place those goods in a most secure location, as you shall judge useful, so that at a suitable time they may, with God's help, be conveyed here together with that same boy. But the other things as well, in whatever goods or chattels you shall have learned to belong to his estate, make haste with all energy to gather together and establish in one place, so that nothing of his estate may by any occasion be lost. Therefore strive to carry out all these matters with such solicitous and careful diligence, that with you set over them no loss may befall those very things, and that no opening for any fraud whatsoever, under any occasion or pretext, may be able to lie open. And make haste likewise to indicate to us by your writings what the total of his revenues may be.

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