The benefices referred to had devolved to the Holy See, because Dr.
All beneficesand other ecclesiastical property were, from the beginning, seized on by the heretics.
Sidenote: Statute of provisors forbidding the attempts of the popes to present to benefices in England.
They were made in violation of the law, and were conducted with simony so flagrant that English benefices were sold in the papal courts to any person who would pay for them, whether an Englishman or a stranger.
There Sarpi says that five-sixths of Italian benefices are at the Pope's disposal, and that there is good reason to suppose that he will acquire the remaining sixth.
If the continuance ofbenefices in commendam ceased, the device of pensions upon benefices was substituted; and a thousand pretexts put colossal fortunes extracted from Church property, now as before, into the hands of Papal nephews.
In the collation to bishoprics and otherbenefices the same spirit of equity appeared; for Pius inquired scrupulously into the character and fitness of aspirants after office.
This large sum accrued from the composition of benefices and the sale of vacant offices.
They specially disliked the decrees which enforced the residence of prelates and the limitation of benefices held by a single ecclesiastic.
Its service is painfully inadequate; to save the expense of salaries for additional canons, the cabildo recommend that some of the missions and benefices now held by the religious orders be turned over to the cathedral.
True, Englishmen were appointed to the richest benefices within the Pale to which the English kings had the right of presentation, and these strove, with as much zeal as the knight or baron, to extend the boundaries of the shire-lands.
But, it must be borne in mind that the spirit of exclusion was still in full force amongst the Anglo-Irish clergy, and no Irishman was eligible for benefices within the Pale.
I may here mention that the anomaly of “donative” beneficeswas abolished by Act of Parliament in 1898.
The manor of Somersby goes with that of Bag Enderby, and the benefices are held together, being barely a mile apart.
Besides the said benefices of Zebu, Villa de Arebalo, and the island of Caraga, that bishopric has twelve secular benefices which minister to fifteen thousand four hundred souls.
Benefices and missions of the bishopric of Zibu, and the number of souls ministered to.
Benefices and missions of the bishopric of Camarines, and the number of souls instructed therein.
The benefices are appointed by competition as soon as they become vacant, in the manner prescribed by the holy council of Trent, in accordance with the royal patronage and last royal decree of your Majesty that treats of this matter.
The benefices of secular priests, and the convents and residences of religious, above mentioned, are directed and instructed as follows.
The prelates no longer have benefices to give to nobles whose ancestors founded the churches, and to other lettered persons; from which results also that gifts are no longer given to the churches.
The pope retains only a veto in case of unfitness or uncanonical election, and the nominations to benefices "in curia vacantia," i.
In England, parliament, by the Statute of Provisors, forbids the interference of the pope in bestowing beneficesand livings in England.
No sooner was the decree of Bourges rescinded than the Pope resumed and enforced his claim to the provision of benefices in France.
The Pope imposes on the churches and benefices pensions, subsidies, exactions of all kinds.
Pensions were reserved for those who quitted their benefices on account of religion.
It would be difficult to prove that, with a view to the interests of religion among the people, or of the clergy themselves, taken as a body, any pluralities of benefices with cure of souls ought to remain, except of small contiguous parishes.
The clergy, it is said, were expected to contribute a fourth; but I believe that benefices above ten pounds in yearly value were taxed at one-third.
It appears from an account sent in to the privy council by Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, in 1562, that in his diocese more than one-third of the benefices were vacant.
The far greater part of its benefices were supplied by conformists of very doubtful sincerity, who would resume their mass-books with more alacrity than they had cast them aside.
I had the curiosity to ascertain his revenue, and I have thought what I found curious enough to be inserted here, diminishing some of the benefices to avoid all exaggeration.
We pray that no priest [shall be chaplain] nor no other officer to any man of honour or worship, but only to be resident upon their benefices whereby their parishioners may be instructed with the laws of God.
Moreover, he agreed that the friars should hold some benefices in and near Manila and the ecclesiastical-educational employments in the colleges.
He then proposed that the benefices should be shared between Filipinos and friars, whilst Father Sevilla insisted on the absolute deposition of the friars.
The outcome of the controversy respecting the benefices was that the friars could be sent to those parishes where the people were willing to receive them, without danger of giving rise to public disorder.
Rome, for the time being, had overruled the question of the benefices contrary to Nozaleda's wish.
Búrgos, urging the fulfilment of the Council of Trent decisions, which forbade the friars to hold benefices unless there were no secular priests available.
Even if the recipient was a native there was little ceremony in dealing with papal grants of benefices when occasion prompted, as was shown in the affair which first revealed the unbending character of the future Cardinal Ximenes.
They alleged that whatever might be the papal rights in other countries, in Spain the patronage of all benefices belonged to the crown because they and their predecessors had wrested the land from the infidel.
The management of benefices went on in the usual arbitrary manner.
These details show but too plainly how benefices were dealt with, and how at the mere rumour of a prelate’s death temporal sovereigns disposed of a high spiritual office in favour of a child.
Rinaldo Orsini was a prelate of a type then but too common; from his youth up he had held benefices without spiritual functions, and so he treated his archbishopric as a sort of garrison, the revenue of which was sufficient for him.
When it is remembered that in the lifetime of Sixtus, Lorenzo had made use of Girolamo’s mediation to procure tokens of favour and evenbenefices for his young son,[350] this intrigue throws no favourable light on his character.
Lorenzo had not ceased interceding for benefices for his son.
But the presbyterians soothed themselves with hopes of retaining their benefices by some compromise with their adversaries.
It will be remembered that such of the clergy as steadily adhered to the episcopal constitution had been expelled from their benefices by the long parliament under various pretexts, and chiefly for refusing to take the covenant.
The actual incumbents of benefices were, on the whole, a respectable and even exemplary class, most of whom could not be reckoned answerable for the legal defects of their title.
It had been not unusual, from the very beginnings of our reformation, to admit ministers ordained in foreign protestant churches to benefices in England.
These must have been to benefices in the gift of the Crown; in other cases, letters patent could have been of no effect.
And Laud gave just offence by a public declaration, that in the disposal of benefices he should, in equal degrees of merit, prefer single before married priests.
It was expected that the Queen would present the deprived ministers to such benefices as would now be left vacant by the Papists' deprivations; and at least, they urged, it would be well to do nothing rashly.
A fresh rumour now ran that five thousand more Spaniards would shortly be brought over; and some of them preferred to the vacated benefices and sees.
In the same year, occurred a similar renunciation of three hundred and sixty benefices in Scotland.
The lengthy discussions on ecclesiastical benefices in Germany ended finally in the concordat of Vienna, promulgated by Nicholas V.
The pope preserved the right to nominate to vacant benefices in curia and to certain benefices of the chapters, but all the others were in the nomination of the bishops or other inferior collators.
An act of 1836 prohibited the holding of benefices in commendam in England.
Nor are they only Italians, but Spaniards also, Frenchmen, Germans, who look for nothing but benefices at Rome.
What then would be the case with English people, in whose country there are no ecclesiastical benefices for Catholics?
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