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Benefices, Ecclesiastical - Early works to 1800
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A treatise of beneficiary matters: or, a history of ecclesiastical benefices and revenues. In which are set forth their Rise and Progress, and the Various Means by which they have accrued to the Church. By Father Paul, of the Order of the Servites, and Consulter of State to the Republick of Venice. Translated from the most correct copy in Italian extant, printed at Mirandola, 1676. To which are added notes and observations; most of which were collected by M. Amelot de la Houssaie; which serve as authentick Confutations of the Calumnies spread against the Author.
Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.Date: 1727- Books
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An Act to inlarge the time for returning the certificates of all ecclesiastical livings, not exceeding the yearly value of fifty pounds; as also for discharging all livings of that value from the payment of first-fruits; and for allowing time to archbishops and bishops, and other dignitaries, for payment of their first-fruits.
Great Britain.Date: 1708]- Books
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A Further mite of testimony, in a few mo short remarks upon that church-corrupting and ruining vile abomination of patronages, which have been a grievous yoke and heavy burden upon the churches of Christ, ever since antichristian tyranny raged through the world; Now willingly submitted unto, compiled with, and practised; which is one of the many great national sins, snares, and deep defections of this backsliden and upsitten age. In a letter to a friend.
Date: 1731