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February 18. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to Viviano, the provost of Sorania in the diocese of Parma, relating that, as explained to him by the brothers of the late bishop of Tripoli, Bartolomew the archdeacon of Tripoli, Gerard of Tripoli and Robert, when the bishop was alive the pope granted through a letter that he could bequeath his movable goods. The pope orders the addressee to investigate, and if he finds that the disposition of the goods pertained to the bishop at the time of his death in accordance with that letter, although the letter was not presented to the addressee, he shall force the executors of the will, the bishop’s debtors and whoever holds the goods to furnish the brothers with what the bishop left them of his moveable goods in his last will, in accordance the pope’s concession, after a warning, using ecclesiastical censure, without appeal, notwithstanding various obstacles.