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January 25. Anagni. Pope Alexander IV writes to the master and brothers of the Hospital of St Mary of the Teutonics of Jerusalem, responding to their request by taking as the right and property of St Peter all lands, areas, castles, towns or villages and whatever places that they are able to wrest from the hands of the pagans, as long as they do not belong to Christians or Christians did not possess them from time immemorial, and he confirms that they shall remain under special papal protection and defence for all times after they are brought to Christian worship, and he concedes them and the tithes from them to the addressees and their house to be held freely, such that they shall never be subject to the dominion of [another] power. Nevertheless, once they have acquired these things, the pope wants them to a grant a portion of these possessions and tithes to the churches and their prelates that the Apostolic See will establish.