Letter 12022: I have a practical request: please lend to Savinus, our subdeacon, twenty men along with oxen for the purpose of...

To Gregory, former prefect. That he lend Savinus men and oxen for hauling twenty beams. Gregory to Gregory, former prefect. We make it our necessary care to procure [supplies] for the churches, being confident that you will readily and devotedly bestow whatever you recognize to be for their advantage, churches to which we do not doubt that Your Glory wishes to render service even of your own accord. And therefore, since beams are altogether necessary in the aforesaid churches, and we have enjoined Savinus the subdeacon that in the meantime he should make haste to cut up to twenty of them and ought to haul them to the sea, greeting you with fatherly affection, we ask that Your Glory, with regard to the estates which you hold there in emphyteusis [a long-term hereditary lease], should cause your men with their oxen to furnish assistance in this matter, so that he himself, supported by your aid, may be fit to accomplish those things which have been enjoined upon him, and that you may be able to acquire a reward [...]. So therefore, just as we have said, and as we are confident concerning you, act, glorious son, so that both we may return thanks to you, and you may have the blessed chiefs of the apostles as helpers in all things, for the love and devotion of yours which you display toward their churches.

AD GREGORIUM EXPREAFECTUM. Ad vectandas trabes viginti. homines 5108s ac boves commodet Savino. Gregorius Gregorio expreſeclo, rentibus adbibere necessario Þ procuramus, conſi- dentes vos facile et devote quidquid pro earum vti- litate cognoscitis impertiri , quibus gloriam vestram etiam 8ponte non dubitamus velle przstare. Et ideo quia in predictis eeclesiis trabes omnino sunt ne- cess8arize, atque Savino subdiacono ut interim usque ad viginti incidere ſeslinet et ad mare trahere. de- beat injunximus, paterno salutantes affectu, peiimus ut gloria vesira de possessionibus quas illic in em- phitheosim habet hac in re homines cum bobus suig ſaciat przebere s0latia, quatenus ſet ipse vestra opi- tulatione sufſultus ad ea explenda que $ibi injuncta sunt possit esse idoneus, et vos mercedem 1] 19h valealis acquirere. Ita ergo, sicut diximus, et ut de vobis confidimus, agite, gloriose fili, ut et nos vobis gratias reſeramus, et bealos apostolorum principes pro amore et devotione vestra, quam eorum eccle- siis exhibetis, habealis in omnibus adjutores.