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October 1. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishops and bishops whom this letter reaches, relating that the frequent incursions of the pagans forces the prior and hermit brothers of Mount Carmel to leave the dwellings they have in Outremer and transfer to various and remote areas. They are accustomed to being in deserted places far from cities, so that they worship with free minds in quiet and, they assert, divided in their cells, they can come together for the divine office at the bell, and they desire to have a cemetery for burying their bodies. Since their pious religion is worthy of grace and favour, the pope bends to their entreaties and orders the addressees to grant them these things when the hermits come to them for them, as they see fit, without prejudice to alien right.