Differences on Money

Letter 1,80 - to Laurence, bishop of Milan. August 591.

"Receiving the letter of your Fraternity, I offered thanks to almighty God for relieving me with a longed for report of your good health. But you tell me that a certain quantity of money has been raised from the revenue of the patrimony of the Sicilian province, by the right of the sacred church over which you preside with God's authority, for the reason that at the same time, the revenue of the patrimony of your church was being collected by agents of the holy Roman Church.
And so it was necessary, you said, in accordance with the tenor of the letter sent by you, to examine the sum of money received and entered, and to track down the value of the whole account with care.
After examining this, it has been alleged that nothing was refunded to your church from the holy Roman Church.
But while your deacon, Constantius, has alleged something different to what had been argued by our people. the examination of the business became doubtful, and it could be aired more precisely if there were a person who could settle something firmly.
Therefore, it is necessary for your Sanctity to nominate a person over this matter, with whose help the Roman Church should settle something definitely."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 191.