Letter 3026: Although your own good judgment should be enough to provide assistance to those assigned to public duty, our...

XXVI. KING THEODERIC TO OSUIN, MAN OF ILLUSTRIOUS RANK, COUNT. [1] Although it belongs to your prudence to lend protection to those assigned to the public welfare, nevertheless our admonition adds to itself, so that the matter may be carried out more securely, when reverence for our command is brought to bear. And so Simeonius, a most distinguished man, whose loyalty was long ago known to us and whose devotion has been proven, we have directed by our appointment to the assessment of the siliquaticum [a market sales tax], and likewise of the ironworks, for the province of Dalmatia. To him do not refuse the assistance he has sought, so that your sublimity may become more commended to us, since he hastens to offer himself to public service.

XXVI. OSUIN V. I. COMITI THEODERICUS REX. [1] Quamvis prudentiae tuae sit utilitati publicae deputatis ferre praesidium. tamen ammonitio nostra se cumulat, ut securius fiat. ubi se reverentia nostrae iussionis accommodat. Simeonium itaque virum clarissimum, cuius fides olim nobis est cognita vel devotio comprobata, ad ordinationem siliquatici nec non ferrariarum ad provinciam Dalmatiam nostra ordinatione direximus. cui expetita solacia non negetis, ut sublimitas tua nobis commendatior fiat, cum actibus se publicis praebere festinat.