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D.W.]--; his property in ready money, "furniture, tapestry, and the like," at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

When it is considered that, as compared with our times, these sums represent a revenue of a hundred thousand, and a capital of two millions and a half in addition, it may be safely asserted that the prelate had at least made a good beginning.

Besides his regular income, moreover, he had handsome receipts from that simony which was reduced to a system, and which gave him a liberal profit, generally in the shape of an annuity, upon every benefice which he conferred.

He was, however, by no means satisfied.

His appetite was as boundless as the sea; he was still a shameless mendicant of pecuniary favors and lucrative offices.