101.] [Footnote 5153: Ibid, p.

378.] [Footnote 5154: Abbe Sicard, "Les Dispensateurs des benefices ecclesiastiques" (in the "Correspondant," Sep.10, 1889, p.883).

A benefice was then a sort of patrimony which the titulary, old or ill, often handed over to one of his relatives.

"A canonist of the eighteenth century says that the resignation carried with it one third of the income."] [Footnote 5155: "Souvenirs", by Pasquier (Etienne-Dennis, duc), Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.Vol.

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