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Letter CXXXVII.

To the same, and on the same day.

(On the subject of Easter, acknowledging the trouble Proterius has taken,—to which is joined a request that the accounts of the œconomi^[1] should be audited by priests, not lay persons.)

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↑ Œconomi(stewards) were officers appointed to manage the revenues of each diocese under the bishops’ direction, when the bishops and their archdeacons had enough to do otherwise: cf. Bingham, Antiq., Bk. III. chap. xii.

[1] Œconomi(stewards) were officers appointed to manage the revenues of each diocese under the bishops’ direction, when the bishops and their archdeacons had enough to do otherwise: cf. Bingham, Antiq., Bk. III. chap. xii.

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