Letter 12041: The churches in question have remaining resources — financial funds, clergy, and other assets — that need to be...

Gregory to Pantaleo, notary. We were expecting your diligence to render us a thoroughly detailed account of the silver belonging to the churches and whatever other property you found, so that from your report we might have been able to deliberate more precisely about what ought to be done. But your report did not inform us as it should have. Therefore, let it be your care to deposit the silver of the churches that the clergy and people still hold — wherever you judge best — in the treasury of the church, with all due diligence and caution, and to obtain a receipt for the deposit. As for the silver of those churches that, on account of our sins, have been abandoned by their clergy and people, bring it here with you. If you discover that three or four clergy from those churches have remained, make a report of who each one is, his circumstances, and where he lives, and bring it to us, so that, if we judge it necessary, we may determine what each should receive annually. As for perishable goods that might deteriorate with age, bring those with you likewise, so that whatever seems useful may be arranged from them. Then, with the Lord's protection, when you have found a ship ready to sail, return to us.

AD PANTALEONEM NOTARIUM. De Ecclesiarum quarumdam superslitibus tum pecuniis, tum clericis, tum rebus aliis. Gregorius Pantaleoni notario. Exspectabamus ut nos experientia tua de argento Ecelesiarum, vel aliis quas invenit rebus, omnino subliliter redderet certiores, ut ex ejus renuntiations quod fieri debuisset deliberare minutius poluissemus. Sed nou nos ita renuvtiatio tua ut oporiebat in- struxit. Curz ergo tuz sit ut argentum Eeclesiarum, quod clerus et populus habet, apud quos previderis, in ® cimiliarchio ecclesiz sub omni sollicitudine at- que cautela deponas, atque de eodem deposilo inde Susceptum accipias. Argenium vero Ecclesiarum, quod pro peccatis a clero et populo destitutum est, tecum huc defer. Si forte tres aut quatuor clericos de ipsis Ecclesiis cognoveris remansisse, ſacita noll- tia, quis quomodo est, vel ubi habitat, nobis deſer, ut eis, si necessarium viderimus, quid singulis att» nis accipere debeant, $latuere valeamus. Res vero quz vetustale perire possunt, tecum similiter defer, ut ex eis quod utile visum fuerit L YOY dis ponatur. esse ab illo patricio qui, cum esset monachus, ux0- rem duxerat, 8vpra ostendimus in notis ad epist. 4 hujus libri. Confer notas Gussanvillei in has ept- Stolas, et miraberis viri docti incogitaniam. Quippe in nota ad epist. 4 contendit epistvlam hanc loco esse motam, quia Venantius ad quem scriptam eam putat jam anno przeterito e vivis sublatus ſueral- Ia nota autem ad hane epist. 40, quz Gusganvill.r0 est 45, hc obvervat : Convaluerat preler spem Ve- nantius, ut supra monuimus, Ecce cunvaluit et vivit indict. 5 qui indict. 4 obieral. Eersr. XLI [Al. 46.] — *Antea, male , cimiliar- cho. Quid $it autem cimiliarchium , dixi ad epist. 10, nuuc 20, lib. 1. * 23558 1949 EPISTOLARUM LIB. XII. — INDICT. V. —-EPIST. XLY. 4250 To autem Protegente Domino inventa navigii pro- A cti vel cautionis quam misimus. Ita ergo $anciitas gperilaie reverlere.