Section 02
The Accounts
Where the money came from, and the trial. 4 entries, each one a document, a building or a claim, and who made it.
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01
Parish income
What a rural curé of the period actually received, which is the baseline every other figure has to be measured against.
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02
Mass stipends
Payment for saying masses was ordinary and regulated; taking stipends for far more masses than anyone could say was not.
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03
The diocesan court
He was tried in an ecclesiastical court and the proceedings survive, which makes the central financial question a matter of record rather than speculation.
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04
Bishop de Beauséjour
The bishop who pressed the matter, and the correspondence that documents it.
