The Works of Voltaire a Contemporary Version With Notes volume 10
The Works of Voltaire a Contemporary Version With Notes volume 10
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SECTION IV.
Churchmen have not only pretended to be exempt from taxes, they have found the means in several provinces to tax the people, and make them pay as a legitimate right.
In several countries, monks having seized the tithes to the prejudice of the rectors, the peasants are obliged to tax themselves, to furnish their pas- tors with subsistence ; and thus in several villages, and above all, in Franche-Comte, besides the tithes which the parishioners pay to the monks or to chap- ters, they ...further pay three or four measures of corn to their curates or rectors. This tax was called the right of harvest in some provinces, and boisse- lage in others.
It is no doubt right that curates should be well paid, but it would be much better to give them a part of the tithes which the monks have taken from them, than to overcharge the poor cultivator.
Since the king of France fixed the competent allowances for the curates, by his edict of the month of May, 1768, and charged the tithe-collectors with paying them, the peasants should no longer be held to pay a second tithe, a tax to which they only volun- tarily submitted at a time when the influence and violence of the monks had taken from their pastors all means of subsistence.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
SECTION IV.
Churchmen have not only pretended to be exempt from taxes, they have found the means in several provinces to tax the people, and make them pay as a legitimate right.
In several countries, monks having seized the tithes to the prejudice of the rectors, the peasants are obliged to tax themselves, to furnish their pas- tors with subsistence ; and thus in several villages, and above all, in Franche-Comte, besides the tithes which the parishioners pay to the monks or to chap- ters, they ...further pay three or four measures of corn to their curates or rectors. This tax was called the right of harvest in some provinces, and boisse- lage in others.
It is no doubt right that curates should be well paid, but it would be much better to give them a part of the tithes which the monks have taken from them, than to overcharge the poor cultivator.
Since the king of France fixed the competent allowances for the curates, by his edict of the month of May, 1768, and charged the tithe-collectors with paying them, the peasants should no longer be held to pay a second tithe, a tax to which they only volun- tarily submitted at a time when the influence and violence of the monks had taken from their pastors all means of subsistence.
What to read after The Works of Voltaire a Contemporary Version With Notes volume 10?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Voltaire to read onlineMoreLess
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