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. June 27. Gavi. Pope Innocent IV writes to the abbot and monks of St Sabbas of Alexandria [of Egypt], relating that, since the city of Genoa is at the foundation of the faith and is everywhere disturbed by the enemies of the Church, the Apostolic See grants it special favours. Thus, responding to Genoese requests, the pope orders the addressees to sell for a just price, or rent for a fitting annual sum for up to ten years renewable, to the Genoese the house that the abbot and monks possess in Acre in the district called the Chain, notwithstanding any statute or papal indulgence they may have, such that the pope will smile upon them. The pope, however, declares null and void any sale, rent or other alienation of the house to the contrary, on pain of excommunication, to be enforced by Archbishop [Niccolò Lercari] of Tyre via ecclesiastical censure.