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September 19. Acre. In the palatium of the lord of Tyre, in which the papal legate is residing. Incorporating the text of the papal letter of 25 March 1260 (RRR 3295), which authorised magister Cosmas, canonicus Anconitanus, subdiaconus et nuntius papae, to enforce collection of the census owed to the church of Rome, Hugolinus, sacrosanctae Romanae ecclesiae et Apostolicae sedis judex et notarius, records in the presence of T[homas], bishop of Bethlehem (episcopus Bethlemitanus) and papal legate that Cosmas acknowledges under his seal and that of the papal legate that he has received from frere Jacques, prieur of the house in Acre of the abbey of St Mary of the Valley of Jehoshaphat, acting on behalf of the abbé and convent of St Mary, 5 gold ounces in Saracen besants, which the abbey owes to the church of Rome and the pope for the last 4 years, at 1 ounce a year, [together with the current year]. Cosmas will hand the money over to the pope. Witnesses: dominus Cantor Caesariensis; magister Nicolaus thesaurarius Caesariensis; magister Guillelmus archidiaconus Lydensis; magister Joannes canonicus Nazarenus, dominus Joannes Homodei civis Venetus. Hugolinus, sacrosanctae Romanae ecclesiae et Apostolicae sedis judex et notarius, wrote this deed.