...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY) ; and it became...

...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY) ; and it became...

...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convent*. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes of young men, many of them of noble birtfi, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders...

...considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. Tlie hope of obtaining one of those sinocures led multitudes of young men, many of them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom wont further than taking the inferior orders (see OUDEHS, HOLT); and it became...

...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...young men, many of them of noble birth, to enter the clericfil career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLT);...

...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. ; 9 8@ f rJ qM ޞ_ vi ̎) 'vz/ j... t _[ d 'l( = c j # m Vk X JM{ ڔ >C ͜ who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY); and it became...

...and Francis I. (1516), the French king had the right to nominate upwards of 200 Abbes commcndataires, who, without having any duty to perform, drew a third...orders. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitude* of young men, many of them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, which, however,...

...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY) ; and it became...

...They were not necessarily clergy, but were expected to take orders unless exempted by a dispensation. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...inferior orders ; and it became customary to call such aspirant abbés, jocularly, Abbés of St. Hope. They formed a considerable and influential class...

...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY) ; and it became...