Quote from Letter 9.75 to Fantinus, defender. November-December 598
You Experience should know that our notary, Primigenius, has passed from this world, for his sins. He is known to have left as his heirs the holy Roman Church, which we serve with God's authority, and his wife, who afterwards commended herself to the protection of the Church, and also the son of his brother, as an equal heir, accounting for every last cent. For that reason, so that you receive this order at once, before anyone discovers that he has died and permits some fraud over his fortune, you will take care to travel without delay to the place in which his property has been stored. And there, with all concern and diligence, let it be your aim to act with solemnity and precision, in the presence of the boy, Consentius, who is nominated as the guardian of the property, and summon witnesses.
You Experience should know that our notary, Primigenius, has passed from this world, for his sins. He is known to have left as his heirs the holy Roman Church, which we serve with God's authority, and his wife, who afterwards commended herself to the protection of the Church, and also the son of his brother, as an equal heir, accounting for every last cent. For that reason, so that you receive this order at once, before anyone discovers that he has died and permits some fraud over his fortune, you will take care to travel without delay to the place in which his property has been stored. And there, with all concern and diligence, let it be your aim to act with solemnity and precision, in the presence of the boy, Consentius, who is nominated as the guardian of the property, and summon witnesses.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 589
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