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Thank you for this. Very helpful.
But it doesn't sound quite -- right -- to me.
DW
Revd Gordon Plumb wrote:
> Quite a number of religious (and probably seculars as well) applied to
> become honorary papal chaplains. You can find a good short description
> of them and why people applied to become yhonorary papal chaplains in:
>
> `F Donald Logan Runaway Religious in Medieval England c1240-1540
> Cambridge UP, 1996, pages 51-54. There he says that the granting ofd
> an honorary papal chaplaincy gave the person all the privileges
> accorded to papal chaplains at the curia - which included exempting
> the holder from the religious life (if a religious) and from obedience
> to religious superiors. According to Logan between 1390 and 1415 at
> least 326 religious had become honorary papal chaplains. so quite
> common, definitely not at Rome.
>
> Not so much extra dosh as a great degree of freedom from what might
> have become an irksome way of life!
>
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