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- noun plural (Eccl. Law) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.
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Examples
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In 1409, at the Council of Pisa, Pope Alexander V. expressly renounced annats; Charles VII. condemned them by an edict of April,
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Three celebrated jurisconsults, Dumoulin, Lannoy, and Duaren, have written strongly against annats, which they call a real simony.
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The paying of annats was again forbidden by Charles IX., at the
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In several dioceses the bishops, chapters, and archdeacons, after the example of the popes, imposed annats upon the curés.
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Henry IV., who feared no danger, but feared Rome, confirmed the annats by an edict of the 22d of January, 1596.
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The epoch of the establishment of annats is uncertain, which is
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The exaction of the _annats_ is stigmatized as simony.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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The Papal treasury, under guise of _annats_, laid claim to the entire income of the bishopric or other benefice for the first year after each new appointment.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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Since the month of August of last year, when I began to govern these islands, the half-annats [103] have been collected with the care ordered by your Majesty, in which I coöperated with the commissary for that tax.
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It cannot be ascertained what the mesada taxes in the ecclesiastical estate, and the half-annats in the secular, are worth; nor that concerning sales and resignations of office, and other petty transactions, for all of which a figure of 6,000 pesos annually is set down ...... 6,000 pesos.
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