The financial official Ioannes Doukas certified with his signature a chrysobull of Alexios I for Christodoulos of Patmos (1088) granting an exkousseia from certain taxes for a ship of 500 modioi to be built for and owned by the monastery of Patmos, and another chrysobull of Ioannes II (1119) confirming earlier chrysobulls of Alexios I establishing an annual grant of wheat for the monastery on Patmos. Theoktistos, the hegoumenos of Patmos, later requested and was granted by the emperor Manuel 1 a decree protecting the 12 paroikoi of Patmos on Leros from the praktores of Samos and granting the monastery 6 more paroikoi for Leros, exempt from all fiscal obligations. The decree was issued, signed in red ink and sealed by the emperor, then registered in the sekreton of the megas logariastes by Ioannes Pepagomenos, in the sekreton of the epi ton oikeiakon by Theodoros Spondyles, in the sekreton of the megas logariastes of the euage sekreta by Romanakes and in the sekreton of the epi ton vestiarion by Kostomyres. A copy was finally certified and signed by Basileios Pekoules and Ioannes Alopos