ISBN: 9781153830737

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1840 Excerpt: ... stedfast and stable peace to the people of his realm keep, and HTMY cause to be kept, to his power, in that which honour and equity .,-!-- do require. To return: as to the religious dislodged and thrown out of Pensions.. Ti i_ allowed the their estates by the dissolution, the king did not send them religious, altogether unprovided into the world. They had pensions during life allowed for their maintenance. These pensions cevtionswere secured to them by patents under the broad seal, and registered in the court of augmentations. This clause of tempore dissolutionis illius, et diu antea was inserted in the patent. And thus a great many young people, who were lately professed, were left to shift for themselves, and excluded 167. the benefit of this provision. Those, likewise, who were preferred to any ecclesiastical dignity or benefice, at the dissolution of their house, had no pension: which maintenance was likewise to determine with those that had it, upon their promotion to any church preferment of equal value. This, as Fuller observes, was a temptation to the king and chancellor to prefer monks of mean qualifications to good livings: for by such a provision, the exchequer was discharged of taking any farther care of them. The patents for these pensions were all drawn in the same form, as to substance; I shall transcribe one of them for the reader. See Records, Besides these pensions, which were well paid, the monks had some advance-money to equip them for the world, and supply their necessities, till their pensions became due. This bounty-money generally bore the proportion of a fourth part to their annuity. The nuns'' maintenance seldom rose to more than four pounds per annum pension, and forty shillings in hand, when they quitted the cloister. What sha... Jeremy Collier, Books, History, An Ecclesiastical History Of Great Britain, Chiefly Of England, From The First Planting Of Christianity, To The End Of The Reign O Books>History The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly of England, From the First Planting of Christianity, to the End of the Reign of King Charles the Second; Subtitle: With a Brief Account of the Affairs of Religion in Ireland; Volume: 5; Original Publisher: Printed for W. Straker; Publication date: 1840; Subjects: Great Britain; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Europe / Ireland; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / Christian Church / History; Travel / Europe / Ireland;<