Gregory to Desiderius, bishop of Gaul. We have learned the desire of your fraternity through the report of John the district-officer; which indeed we are willingly prepared to fulfil, if we shall have been diligently informed concerning the things he has reported. For he says it was told him by your love that certain privileges were once granted to your Church by the apostolic see, and that its priests anciently had the use of the pallium. Since you greatly ask that this be renewed for you, we caused search to be made in the archive of our Church, and nothing could be found. But since we judge that the more earnestly you desire to obtain these things, the more solicitous you are, expend your care more vigilantly in searching the charters of your Church;
and if any writings can be found thence which are able to inform us, take care to send them here. For we who grant new privileges, most gladly restore old ones.