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. June 18. Nicosia. Archbishop Hugo (Ugo da Fagiano) of Nicosia made public the following two regulations in a council in the church of Nicosia, and afterwards they were presented to the people. First, the archbishop relates that layfolk often enter the church of Nicosia during divine offices or some pastoral office and shout loudly and harm the prelate, priests, other clerics, the place, and the worship. Henceforth anyone, cleric or lay, entering that church or any other church of the city or diocese where prayers should be recited and the divine offices celebrated in peace, if they cause such harm or shout, object, or disturb loudly, they and those who help, give aid to, advise, or support them shall be excommunicated ipso facto, their sentence to be proclaimed publicly until they make amends, leaving to the judges any punishment according to civil laws. Second, the archbishop relates that some of the regular clergy of the city of Nicosia – he hopes not all – admit to the divine offices parishioners of the church of Nicosia, the sole parish church of the Latins in the city. Canon law prohibits them from accepting alien parishioners on Sundays and feast days and from celebrating public masses in their cloisters, and the archbishop forbids this from happening in the future.