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February 23. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarch [Jacques Pantaléon] of Jerusalem and to Archbishop [Gilles de Saumur] of Tyre (Tyrensis), relating that Signoretus, cleric of Acre (Acconensis), recently obtained a letter from the pope to certain executors on a reception and provision for him in the church of Acre (Acconensis). At the insistence of the bishop of Acre (Acconensis) the pope ordered that the cleric be summoned while he was still at the papal curia, so that he would put his letter into the hands of G., master of schools in Parma (Parmensis), papal vice-chancellor. Although he understood the summons, he did not wish to appear before G. afterwards or turn over the letter. Indeed rather he was so defiant that, thinking little of the papal order, he is said to have returned to his parts. Lest S. glory in his contempt of the papal order and in his defiance, the pope orders the addressees to prohibit the executors from proceeding in S.'s reception and provision in that church via this letter, and if perhaps they have proceeded in anything, they shall revoke it. Otherwise they are to declare null and void anything done by the executors concerning this reception and provision.