They gave him a right to all the annates and tithes of benefices which had formerly been paid to the court of Rome. |
The Commons were not more enthusiastic about the bill restraining the payment of annates to the Court at Rome. |
Hereafter no remittances shall be made for annates or for any other purpose to the court of Rome, the vice legation at Avignon, or to the nunciature at Lucerne. |
The impost called annates involved the surrender of one-half of revenues during the first year of office by each new episcopal incumbent. |
By reason of his translation to the see of Lisieux he owed Rome annates to the amount of 400 golden florins. |
For the next year the annates were paid in full, as usual, to give time for his Holiness to consider himself. |