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May 21. Anagni. Pope Alexander IV writes to the patriarch of Jerusalem [Jacques Pantaléon], relating that the patriarch complained to him that the abbot and convent of St Mary of Josaphat of the Order of St Benedict in the diocese of Jerusalem, which is subject to the patriarch, asserting that they have a privilege of exemption from the pope, are trying to withdraw from the patriarch's jurisdiction on this account, to the prejudice and no little trouble to the patriarch and his church. The patriarch asked the pope to provide for him and his church in this matter. Although the pope does not believe that he granted such a privilege of exemption to the abbot and convent, just in case, if such a privilege was sent from the pope, which he repeats that he does not believe, he has ordered it revoked.