Letter 9046: I am asking you to convey a firm message to Leontius, the former consul: he is not to make any unilateral decisions...

It has come to us that certain men, out of a zeal of perverse will, are endeavoring to filch away from the elders and citizens of the city of Naples certain things concerning the islands, against their right, in the matter of our glorious son Leontius, so that they may be able unjustly to afflict them with losses. For this reason we enjoin by this instruction that you ought to be watchful, so that with him no occasion of such fraudulent appropriation may be found in this cause; and if perchance you should come to know that anything has been said, or that he himself is perhaps doing something prejudicially, which we do not believe, we wish you to tell him, by our mandate, that he ought not to lend assent to the words of evil men nor to involve himself in this sin, since, although in time past they have been thoroughly secured concerning those same islands by the orders of the princes, nevertheless, while we were in the imperial city, their rights were so firmly established and fortified by the gracious order of our most serene lord the prince Maurice, granted at their request, that they have nothing on account of which they ought justly to be afraid. On account of this matter, so that both you may be more diligently informed and may be able plainly to give satisfaction to our aforesaid glorious son, if the cause should require it, we have foreseen that copies of those same orders should be transmitted to you. But if it should be necessary, we shall also have the authenticated [originals] themselves dispatched. Only see to it, as we have said, that you take care to be watchful, so that no occasion of defrauding anyone may lie open there.

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