教牧守則·對話錄與書信 第 763 章

Gregory to Fantinus, defensor. Let it be known to your Experience that Primogenitus, our notary, has departed this life for his sins. And since he is known to have left as heirs the holy Roman Church, which by God's authorship we serve, and his wife, who afterward commended herself to the protection of the Church, as well as his brother's son, in one single share of inheritance;

on this account, as soon as you have received this instruction, before anyone learns that he has died and commits any fraud upon his property, you shall take care to go without delay to the place where his goods are stored; and let it be done with all care and diligence of your zeal, in the presence of the boy Consentius, who is said to be the guardian of those very goods, and with witnesses brought in, solemnly and precisely, and to place those goods in a most secure place, as you shall foresee to be useful, so that at a fitting time they may, with God's help, be conveyed hither together with that same boy.

But also the rest, whatever things—whether goods or livestock—you shall have learned to belong to his substance, hasten with all vigour to gather and establish in one place, so that nothing of his substance may perish through any occasion whatsoever. Study therefore to carry out all these matters with such careful and precise diligence that, with you set there, no loss may befall the goods themselves, and no room may lie open for any fraud under any pretext or contrivance whatsoever. Hasten, moreover, to inform us by your letters at the same time what the total of his revenues may be.