ll
their judicial subordinates in 1788 and 1789, and the provincial power
of the league thus formed.]

[Footnote 5224: Article 12.]

[Footnote 5225: "The Revolution," Vol. I.--Abbe Sicard, "Les
Dispensateurs des benefices ecclesiastiques avant 1789."
("Correspondant" of Sep. 10, 1889, pp. 887, 892, 893.) Grosley,
"Memoires pour servir l'histoire de Troyes," II, pp. 35, 45.]

[Footnote 5226: Abee Elie Meric, "Le Clerge sous l'ancien regime,"
I., p. 26. (Ten universities conferred letters of appointment on
their graduates.)--Abbe Sicard, "Les Dispensateurs," etc., p 876.--352
parliamentarians of Paris had an indult, that is to say, the right
of obliging collators and church patrons to bestow the first vacant
benefice either on himself or on one of his children, relations or
friends. Turgot gave his indult to his friend Abbe Morellet, who
consequently obtained (in June 1788) the priory of Thimer, with 16,000
livres revenue and a handsome house.--Ibid., p.887. "The bias of the
Pope, ecclesiastical or lay patrons, licensed parties, indultaires,
graduates, the so frequent use of resignations, permutations, pensions,
left to the bishop, who is now undisputed master of his diocesan
appointments, but very few situations to bestow."--Grosley, "Memoires,
etc.," II., p.35. "The tithes followed collations. Nearly all our
ecclesiastical collators are at the same time large tithe-owners."]

[Footnote 5227: An inferior class of priests, generally assigned to poor
parishes.]

[Footnote 5228: Abbe Elie Meric, ibid., p.448.]

[Footnote 5229: Abbe Elie Meric, ibid., pp 392~403. (Details in
support.)]

[Footnote 5230: Abbe Richandeau, "De l'ancienne et de la nouvelle
discipline de l'Eglise en France," p. 281.--Cf. Abbe Elie Meric, ibid.,
ch. II. (On the justice and judges of the church.)]

[Footnote 5231: Mercur, "Tableau de Paris," IV.,chap. 345. "The flock no
longer recognize the brow of their pastor and regard him as nothing but
an opulent man, enjoying himself in the capital and giving himself very
little trouble about it."]

[Footnote 5232: "Le Monde" of Novem. 9, 1890. (Details, according to the
Montpellier newspapers, of the ceremony which had just taken place in
the cathedral of that town for the remission of the pallium to Mgr.
Roverie de Cabrieres.]

[Footnote 5233: "Encyclopedie theologique," by Abbe Migne, ix., p.465.
(M. Emery, "Des Nouveaux chapitres cathedraux," p.238.) "The custom
in France at present, of commo