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August 9. Viterbo. Pope Alexander IV writes to the prior of Saint-Hilaire of Orléans (St Hylarius Aurelianensius), relating that Dun-sur-Aurun (Sado de Duno Regis) canon of Saint-Ursin de Bourges (St Ursinus Bituricensis) informed him that in that church the statute strengthened by oath states that when a canon retires or dies, the prior and chapter collect the first year’s fructus from the prebend and with it buy redditus, called an annuale in the vernacular. When Sado obtained the prebend that brother Petrus de Sancto Johanne had in that church before becoming canon of St Mary of Mt Sion (Syon) in Jerusalem of the Order of St Augustine, however, the prior and chapter collected the income for three years and counting. The pope orders the addressee, if it is so, to have the prior and chapter be content with the one year’s income and assign the rest and the prebend to Sado without delay.