benefices

• These benefices were the property of the Church; they were in the gift and bestowal of the Pope, and in the bestowing of them the Pope levied a proportionate tax. —  The Life of Cesare Borgia
• As in the case of the benefices, the succession to some, but by no means to all, of the estates followed the rule of Primogeniture. —  Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
• The provisions of the Pragmatic Sanction were directed chiefly to guarding the freedom of election and of collation to benefices, and to prohibiting the imposition of any form of taxes by the Pope upon ecclesiastical property in France, save by previous consent of the prince and clergy. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• The lovely Countess of Turenne sold his preferments and benefices, the immense treasure of John XXII was his, and he showered such benefits on a grateful family that of the five Cardinals who accompanied his corpse from Avignon, one was his brother, one his cousin, and three his nephews; and that the Huguenots who violated his tomb at La-Chaise-Dieu, should have used his skull as a wine-cup, seems an horrible, but not an unfitting mockery. —  Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
• A portion of the third part of the benefices was all that had been assigned for the support of the ministry, and even this had not been fully or regularly paid, so that in many parishes the ministers' stipends had to be provided by their own people. —  Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series

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