Quote from Letter 9.53 to Maurentius, a general. November 598
(W)e suggest that your Glory that you should apply your protection to them [people of the island of Prochyta], preserving justice, wherever it proves necessary, and if in some matter the benefit for the people under his [the accused count]control should weigh lightly against the order of reason, as he claims, let the burdens imposed on them be lightened to the very limit of justice, with your support.
Their privileges should not be trampled on in any way at all, but let everything that ancient usage has established be preserved unchanged in all things. And so, let your Glory show yourself to be so decent in these matters that you may be shown to support the side of justice, and these who have been commended may report your good deeds to us, for this is what we always want to hear about you.
(W)e suggest that your Glory that you should apply your protection to them [people of the island of Prochyta], preserving justice, wherever it proves necessary, and if in some matter the benefit for the people under his [the accused count]control should weigh lightly against the order of reason, as he claims, let the burdens imposed on them be lightened to the very limit of justice, with your support.
Their privileges should not be trampled on in any way at all, but let everything that ancient usage has established be preserved unchanged in all things. And so, let your Glory show yourself to be so decent in these matters that you may be shown to support the side of justice, and these who have been commended may report your good deeds to us, for this is what we always want to hear about you.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 577
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