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. November 21. Naples. In a general letter to all professed religious [and sent to Nicosia], Pope Innocent IV responds to many complaints made to him by prelates. He criticizes the religious for hearing the confessions of parishioners, preaching in their churches to those who should go to their parish churches on Sundays and Feasts, preaching rival sermons to the bishops in the cities, attracting the faithful to choose burial with them and draw up wills in their favour, depriving the secular church of its dues. The pope forbids them: to receive the faithful in their churches on Sundays and Feasts to hear sermons and make confession without the licence of the parish priests; to preach in their churches at the same time as Mass is being heard in parish churches; to preach in other parishes unless invited by the parish priests; to deny the parish priests the half, third or fourth [depending on regional custom] portion of dead parishioners goods or endowments in favour the Holy Land in the case of licit burials.