It is well known to your Experience that Peter, whom we have made a defender, as born from a property under the control of our church, which is called Jutelas. And therefore, because we ought to be kind in his case, but so as not to harm the Church's profit, we advise you with this order that you should warn him strictly not to presume to join his sons in marriage anywhere outside, with any sort of cleverness or excuse, but that they should be married within that estate, where they have been bound under legal stipulation.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 618.
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