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August 18. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, [deans, archdeacons, archpriests, provosts and other prelates of churches] in the Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus and in other provinces of Outremer, ordering them not to hinder the activity of the Friars Minor (Franciscans). Indeed, through the Christendom many prelates envy the poverty of the Franciscans and try to control their settlements, masses, funerals and confessions notwithstanding their religious autonomy. The pope assigns the patriarch of Antioch and the archbishops of Nazareth and Nicosia as conservators to protect the basic privileges of the Franciscans, by using ecclesiastical censure in case of necessity.