procurations

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
PROCURATIONS, eccl. law. Certain sums of money which parish priests pay 
yearly to the bishops or archdeacons ratione visitationis. it 3, 39, 25; 
Ayl. Parerg. 429; 17 Vin. Ab. h.t., pa e 544. 
    

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