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Epistle XXV.
To Romanus, Guardian (Defensorem)195
| 195 Romanus had been
appointed guardian (defensor) of the patrimony in Sicily.
See IX. 18. | .
Gregory to Romanus, &c.
It is well known to thy Experience that Peter, whom we have made a guardian (defensorem), is sprung from the
estate belonging to our Church which is called Vitelas. And so,
since we ought to shew kindness towards him in such a way that
nevertheless the Church may suffer no disadvantage, we command thee by
this order to charge him strictly not to presume, under any pretext or
excuse, to marry his children anywhere but in that estate to which they
are bound by law and their condition196
| 196 This was a case of a
native of Sicily, who had been ascriptus glebæ, having been
appointed a Defensor Ecclesiæ. The purpose of the
epistle is to guard against his supposing that such appointment
exempted his children from the restrictions imposed by their birth. | . In this
matter, too, it is necessary for thy Experience to be very careful, and
to threaten them, so that on no occasion whatever they may go out of
the property to which by their birth they are subjected. For, if
any one of them (as we do not believe will be the case) should presume
to depart from it, he may be assured that our assent will never be
given to any of them dwelling or being married outside the estate on
which they were born, but that also their land should be
superscribed197
| 197 Sed et superscribi
terram eorum. The meaning may be that
notices should be put on the land to which such defaulters were
attached, declaring that such and such persons belonged to it and were
bound to remain on it. Cf. V. 41, note 3, on the phrase
titulos imponere. | . And then
know that you will run no slight risk, if through your negligence any
of them should attempt to do any of the things which we
forbid.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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