Letter 9072: I am directing you to see to it that Centegus and his wife Flora receive the ten pounds of gold that have been...

Our glorious children Cethegus and Flora, husband and wife, sending Maximus, a most distinguished man and steward of the privy purse [palatinus privatarum], to Sicily on a certain business of their own, have willed that ten pounds of gold be given to our most reverend brother Basilius, bishop of the city of Capua, who is now known to be there, out of the revenues of the ecclesiastical patrimony, to serve his interests. And so that no difficulty might perchance arise concerning the repayment thereof, they have handed over that sum to our most beloved son the deacon Bonifatius. And therefore, since it is not fitting that we should distress our own children, and especially where the Church suffers no loss whatever, we have charged your Fraternity by this letter that, according to the will of our aforesaid children Cethegus and Flora, glorious persons, you should without delay, after receiving the document concerning the sum taken up, give the ten pounds of gold to our above-written brother and fellow-bishop Basilius and to Maximus, that most distinguished man, so that, since no delay shall have arisen in the receiving of it, both they may know that the instructions given to them are usefully carried out, and the interest of the Church may be reasonably safeguarded.