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April 27. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to the chancellor of the church of Toul (Tullensis), relating that Nicolaus the poor deacon called Bridous (Bridoux), former cleric of Patriarch [Jacques Pantaléon] of Jerusalem, explained before the pope that on the basis of a concession that the late Pope I[nnocentius IV] granted the patriarch, then bishop of Verdun (Virdunensis), which after that pope’s death the present pope confirmed, the bishop began the process of granting Nicolaus a benefice in the church of St Mary Magdalen of Verdun (Virdunensis), but this was left incomplete (presumably by the bishop’s promotion to patriarch). The pope orders the addressee, for the second time, to finish the procedure.