Letter 13011: My brother Maximus, I must address something that has caused repeated difficulties: your representatives have been...

My brother Maximus, I must address something that has caused repeated difficulties: your representatives have been presenting themselves at this see and speaking on your behalf in ways that I can no longer simply accept at face value. There have been too many instances where what they claimed to represent was not what you actually intended or authorized. Going forward, I will not act on anything your representatives bring to me unless it is accompanied by a mandate written by your own hand and legally subscribed. This is not distrust of you personally; it is prudence in dealing with the inevitable gap between what a representative says and what his principal actually intends.

AD MAXIMUM SALONITANUM EPISCOPUM. Ittins hominibus non crediturum 8e deinceps, nisi mendatum fegaliter subscriptum habeant. Gregorins Maximo episcopo Salonitano. Alia quidem scripta ad fraternitatem tnam antea . ſeceramus; ®* 8ed tempore quo homines tuos quos ad nos misisti relaxare volnimns scripsisse te qui- busdam nostris comperimus quod Þ Veteranum pfe- sbyterum atque Optatum defensorem tunc minime in causa transmiseris, et ideo ea que cum eis acta sunt non debere subsistere. Sed et Thomas, Eeclesize tua defensor, sibi verbo a te dictum perhibuit. Ex qua re jam nec praentium portitoribus judicavimus es8e credendum, ne de ipsis quoque post hzec $imi- liter diceretur. Quia ergo hc res nos valde ſecit ambigere, et cantos esse _debere praemonuit, si causam vultis dicere, instructam de cxtero pers0- nam * cum mandato 1226 legaliter facto, tuis ac presbyterorum $sen diaconorum 4. in testimonium s1Þscriptionibus roborato, gestisque ex more in- dito, transmitlite, ut quidquid cum ea actum fue- rit possit jure subsistere. Nam nos non solum tibi, 8d etiam omnibus quod justum legitimumque fuerit parati 8umus, Deo juvante, per omnia custodire ; lantum est ut tu quod lege pracipitur facere non omittas. |