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Gregorius Candido presbytero a cunti ad patrimonium Galliæ. Pergens, auxiliante Domino Deo nostro Jesu Christo, ad patrimonium quod est in Galliis gubernandum, volumus ut dilectio tua ex solidis quos acceperit vestimenta pauperum, vel pucros Anglos qui sunt ab annis decem et septem, vel decem et octo, tit in monasteriis dati Deo proficiant, comparet, qua'enus solidi Galliarum, b qui in terra nostra expendi non possunt, apud locum proprium militer expendantur. Si quid vero dc pecuniis redituum quæ dicuntur ablatæ recipere potueris, ex his quoque vestimenta pauperum comparare te volumus, vei, sicut praefati sumus, pueros qui in omnipotentis nei servilio proficiant.
Gregory to Candidus the priest, going to the patrimony of Gaul. Proceeding, with the help of our Lord God Jesus Christ, to govern the patrimony which is in Gaul, we desire that your Beloved, from the solidi which you shall receive, purchase clothing for the poor, or English boys of seventeen or eighteen years, that, given to God, they may profit in monasteries; so that the solidi of Gaul, which cannot be spent in our land, may be usefully spent in their proper place. But if you are able to receive anything of the monies of the revenues which are said to have been taken away, we wish that from these also you purchase clothing for the poor, or, as we said before, boys who may profit in the service of the Almighty.
額我略致前往高盧產業的司鐸干狄多。你藉我們的主天主耶穌基督之助，動身去治理在高盧的產業，我們願你親愛者從你所收取的金幣中，購買窮人的衣物，或購買十七、八歲的英格蘭男童，好使他們獻於天主，在隱修院中長進；如此，那在我們地方無法花用的高盧金幣，便可在其本地得到有用的花用。但若你能收回那些據稱被奪去的收益款項中的任何部分，我們願你也從中購買窮人的衣物，或如我們先前所說，購買能在全能者的服事中長進的男童。
398:2
Sed quia pagani sunt qui illic inveniri possunt, volo ut cum cis presbyter transmittatur, ne quid ægritudinis contingat in via, ut quos morituris conspexerit debeat baptizare. Ita igitur tna dilectio faciat, ut haec diligenter implere festinet. (Cf. Joan. Diac. I. II, n. 6.)
But since those who can be found there are pagans, I wish that a priest be sent with them, lest any sickness befall on the way, so that he may baptize those whom he shall have seen to be dying. Let your Beloved, therefore, so act, that he hasten diligently to fulfil these things. (Cf. John the Deacon, book II, no. 6.)
但因為那裏所能尋得的人是外教人，我願有一位司鐸與他們同去，免得途中發生任何疾病，好使他能為那些他所見瀕死的人施洗。因此，願你親愛者如此行事，殷勤地趕緊履行這些事。（參閱執事若望，第二卷，第六節。）