Letter 66: PELAGIUS PETRO PRAESBYTERO.

Pope Pelagius I to Peter, presbyter. Because the fraudulent conduct attributed to Maximilian has come to our ears through the tearful petition of petitioners, and because it will not be easy to establish the truth of this unless the property of the church that he has scattered by converting it to his own uses is removed from his control before the case is examined — we therefore wish you to warn him away from the administration of the aforesaid church's patrimony in the meantime, and to keep him under your supervision during the investigation, until the case has been fully heard and judgment rendered.

PELAGIUS PETRO PRAESBYTERO. Quia ea quae de j fraudibus Maximiliani flebili ad aures nostras supplicum relatione uenerunt, non facile secundum ueritatem agnosci poterunt, nisi facultas ecclesiae, quam in usus suos male conuertendo dispersit, ab eius potestate, donec causa cognoscatur, seponatur: idcirco 2 uos eum a supradictae ecclesiae patrimonio uolumus interim sub¬ monere,. et in uestro discussionis ipsius tempore moderamine deti¬ neri. E 4 suplicum B 3 potuerunt E 4 ecclesiae] ex eeclesiae Ej, superscr. E 2 conuer¬ tendo] do corr. sup. ras t et ^ (?) B 2 5 potestate] ex pate (superscr.) E 4 icdrco Ei E 3 6 nos E 4 a] om. E 4 7 nostro E 4 tempora Gratianus. Tit. Petro praesbytero: Cf. superiorem ep. 65,3, cum adnotatis ibidem, p. 172. 1. de fraudibus Maximiliani: Cf. item supra, p. 171-172. 2. supradictae ecclesiae: Itaque in praetermisso huius epistulae fragmento exstabat mentio ignotae Tuscae sedis huius antistitis. submouere: Verbum, sicut et praecedens seponatur, corroborant opinionem, non fuisse videlicet Maximilianum Histriae, sed Tusciae prae¬ sulem. In Venetiis enim et Histria tam potentes schismatici erant, ut ne altissimi quidem militiae duces quidquam contra eos agere auderent. Cf. epp. 52,3-4; 53,3-6.10; 59,1-3.7-9; 60,3-6, p. 135-136; 140-142; 155-158; 160-161. EPISTUI^AE 66,1-2; 67,1-2 175 Anilanem rogat ut presbytero Petro et notario Proiecto protegat, ut absque dificultate adimplere possint quod eis iniunctum est.