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August 14. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the patriarch of Jerusalem and papal legate (Robert de Nantes), relating that, as the patriarch’s agent Master Filippo of Tripoli proposed before him, since the pope granted the patriarch the power of providing eight of his clerics with prebendal benefices in the cathedral churches of his patriarchate, and, considering the agent’s obedience, labour, honourable character, knowledge of letters and laudable conversation, the patriarch wishes to provide him with a post (personatus), the pope orders the patriarch to provide him with a post (personatus) or other ecclesiastical rank (dignitas) in a church of his patriarchate as he sees fit, notwithstanding that the agent is otherwise beneficed or any papal indulgence to the contrary.