Pope Honorius III writes to Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, cardinal of the Roman Church, the archbishop of York, and their suffragans, noting that the abbots and brothers of the Cistercian Order are exempt from the payment of teinds both for possessions held before the Council General (summoned by Pope I[nnocent]) and also for meadow lands acquired before or after the said Council, which they cultivate with their own hands or at their own expense. He thus commands that no one presume to exact teinds from them.