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Excerpt from Catholic Unity and the Relation of National Churches to the Church Universal: An Address
Wolsey was promoted to Lincoln the fees to Rome were so large that the King asked that they should be remitted. The Consistory would not listen; the Church of Lincoln, they said, was very rich. The Pope added he had nothing but annates for his support, that he was greatly in debt, especially for his Coronation, and intolerable daily expenses. It ended in Wolsey having to pay something like in modern value for the see of Lincoln, and shortly after another enormous sum when he became Archbishop of It was, in fact, an aggravated system of ecclesiastical death duties in the interest of the Roman Court. Moreover, as the curial system got established, the tendency at Rome to develop a claim to universal theocratic government developed with it.
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