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. August 29. Acre. At the request of Aegydius Tyrensis electus consecratus, Cardinal Odo of Tusculum the papal legate grants the elect licence to found a hospital to receive poor pilgrims from Brittany and from the city, diocese and province of Tours and to celebrate the divine office in a house in the vicus Anglicorum in Acre, rented from the magister and brothers of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, which the electus bought from Thomas Cordarius. Odo authorizes the construction of an oratory and altar dedicated to St Martin, the celebration of Mass, the collection of alms, and the possession of a bell to ring at Mass and the other offices, on condition that for the time being the oratory remains subject to the bishop of Acre.