Letter 8025: Reports have reached me that Jews in your diocese are being troubled and harassed in matters that are lawfully...

To Victor, Bishop of Palermo. That the Jews are to be afflicted with no inconvenience in those things that have been granted to them. Gregory to Victor, Bishop of Palermo. Just as the Jews ought not to have license to presume anything beyond what is permitted to them by law, so too in those things that have been granted to them they ought to sustain no prejudice. Now the Hebrews dwelling here in this city of Rome have lodged a complaint with us on behalf of those who live at Palermo, and the petition presented by them, which is contained below, sets forth the matter. If, therefore, their complaint is supported by the truth, it is fitting that your Fraternity, having carefully examined the tenor of the law, should so keep and observe toward them whatever has been decreed concerning this matter, that neither do you yourself appear to do anything unjust, nor do they appear to suffer prejudice. But if there is something which can reasonably stand in the way of restoring those things which have been demanded, let judges be chosen by the parties, who may be able to settle those matters that accord with equity. But if perhaps the dispute itself cannot be brought to an end there, it is necessary that the case come to us; so that, without any odium upon you, those things which shall have seemed friendly to justice may be decided. Therefore, until the case itself reaches its conclusion, let your Fraternity suspend itself from the consecration of those places which are said to have been taken away.

AD VICTOREM EPISCOPUM PANORMITANUM. Judeos in his que ipsis concessa 8unt nullo incom- + modo afficiendos. Gregorius Victori episcopo Panormitano. Sicut Judzis non debet esse licentia quidquai in ce De lapsis nequaquam ad ordinum functiones re- cipiendis epist. 18 lib. 1, et epist. 26 lib. 11, nunc lib. 1v, etc. 4 Ornatum intellige, splendorem, decus sive privi- legium jam ab antiquo concessum, atlque adeo legi- time expetitum. Vide Henricum Steph., Schediasm. c. 18; Joan. Brodzi, Miscel. lib. ix, c. 20. Syagrinus Augustodun. episcopus, pro genio et honore sue Ec- clesi@ pallium pos'ulat, infra, lib. tx, epist, 108. Svinere, ita in his quz eis concessa Sunt uullum de- bent prxjudicium sustinere. Que auteiwu nobis in bac urbe Roina habitantes Hebrzi pro his qui Panorini degunt, conquesti sunt, data vos ab eis petitio que in Subdilis tenetur inſformat. Si igitur' querimonia eoruin veritate ſulcitur, oportet ut fraternitas vestra, legis serie-diligenter inspecta, ita eis quidquid hac de re decretum est custodire debeat ac servare, ut nec ipsa aliquid injustum facere, nec illi pati praju- dicium videantur. Si vero est aliquid quod ad resti- wwendum ea que sunt postulata rationabiliter possit obsistere, judices a partibus eligantur, qui ea que #2quitati conveniunt valeant definire. Quod si forle illic contentio ipsa finiri nequiverit, ad nos venire B causam necesse esl; quatenus * sinc veslra invidia que amica juslilie visa ſuerint QI 5 decernantur. Quousque ergo causa ipsa finem accipiat, a conse- crativone locorum quz ablala dicuntur ſraternilas $e vesira Suspendat.