Et quia huiusmodi maxima et plurima sunt loca, quae, ut vulgo dici solet, neque Deo neque hominibus utilia sunt, quia videlicet neque regularis secundum Deum ibidem vita servatur, neque illa milites sive comites secularium potestatum qui gentem nostram a barbaris defendant possident: si quis in eisdem ipsis locis pro necessitate temporum sedem episcopatus constituat, non culpam praevaricationis incurrere, sed opus virtutis magis agere probabitur.
And because there are very many large places of this sort which, as it is commonly reported, are serviceable neither to God nor man, to wit, because neither is the regular life according to God kept in them, nor do they have in them soldiers or thanes of the secular powers to defend our nation from barbarians: if anyone, to meet present needs, set up the see of a bishopric in these same places, he shall not be held to come under guilt of transgression, but rather to be performing a virtuous act.
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