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October 18. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the abbot of Saint Samuel of Acre (Acconensis), relating that he was told on behalf of the vice-master and the brothers of the Hospital of Jerusalem (Jerosolimitanum) that they and their predecessors granted their tithes, castles, estates (villas), possessions, jurisdictions, and rights belonging to the Hospital to several regular and secular clerics and layfolk, to some of them perpetually, to some for a term (ad firmam), and to several for a long time, which greatly harmed the Hospital, involving oaths, penalties, letters and other public instruments, and even papal letters in common form. Thus the vice-master and brothers asked the pope the assist, so the pope orders the addressee, the above things notwithstanding, to recall to the Hospital's property and right the goods of the Hospital that he finds to have been alienated and taken away because of such concessions, forcing those who contradict with ecclesiastical censure, appeal put aside.