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January 13. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the same [Patriarch Jacobus (Pantaléon) of Jerusalem], granting him the faculty of absolving according to the form of the Church all clerics and laypeople from the sentence of excommunication that they incur or henceforth will incur for violating the prohibitions or constitutions issued by Cardinal-Bishop [Eudes de Châteauroux] of Tusculum (Tusculanus) when he was papal legate in areas of Outremer, and of giving a dispensation for the irregularity for celebrating or being involved in the divine offices while so bound, unless it was done in contempt, with the proviso that he enjoins on them to abstain from similar things in the future.