patronate

“L’ imperatore istesso sotto varii pretesti di spogli, di juspatronati, di concessioni apostoliche, di avocarie, di incamerationi e di pienezza di potestà trattiene le chiese gli amii vacanti, et in quel mentre se ne preride per se l’ entrate.”—[The emperor himself, under various pretexts of spolia, patronate rights, apostolical concessions, rights of advocation, of confiscation and of plenary power, keeps the churches in vacant years, and meanwhile takes their revenues to himself.]

1847, Leopold Ranke, anonymous translator, “Appendix. List of the Manuscripts That Have Been Consulted, Supplementary Extracts, and Critical Observations.”, in The Poets of Rome; Their Church and State in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. […], volume II, Glasgow; Edinburgh; London: Blackie and Son: […], section 96, page 442

And since the doings of the Curia are a lesson to the world, such a manner of appointment to the cure of souls on its part, teaches and encourages all who have patronate rights to make pastoral appointments of a like kind, as a return for services rendered to themselves, or to please men in power, and in this way to destroy the sheep of Christ.

1878, [Gotthard Victor] Lechler, translated by Peter Lorimer, “Robert Grossetête, Bishop of Lincoln”, in John Wiclif and His English Precursors […], volume I, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], page 46