Gregory to Gratiosus the subdeacon. For those who choose the religious life it behoves us to make provision with fitting consideration, lest the occasion of some necessity should either make them slothful or, God forbid, break the strength of their manner of life. Therefore by our present authority we command you that the house situated in this city, in the fourth region, next to the place which is called At the White Hens, belonging to the right of the holy Roman Church over which, God being author, we preside — the house in which Campana, formerly a patrician lady, is known to have dwelt — together with the garden and the lodgings which its gate encloses within the same house, you deliver to Flora the abbess, to be possessed beyond all doubt by right of ownership.
In which house she may, with Christ's help, be able to build a monastery where she may dwell together with her congregation, so that both she herself and also she who shall succeed in her place and office may, as we have said, be able to possess the aforesaid house and garden with all that pertains to them, by a peaceful and undisturbed right, granted by the consideration of our dictate.