vacances, taxes levied on bénéfices during a vacancy

dépouilles, taxes on the property left by an incumbent.

sîiccessions, succession-duties.

déports, a kind of first-fruits paid to the bishop or archdeacon from parochial bénéfices, as the annates from the greater bénéfices were paid to the Pope.

incoinpatibilités, apparently a tax on pluralities: but this is doubtful.

1. 16. commandes, taxes on revenues held "in commendam," i. e. by a layman: see above, p. 133, 1. 34, note.

a7inates, first-fruits: see above, p. 134, I. 7, note.

1. 19. De rendre àfc. This was a demand put forward by the clergy in England, and actively opposed by the parliament in i'236.