ORDRE DE SAINT BENOÎT - "Édit du Roi, portant Suppression Un - Lot 160

ORDRE DE SAINT BENOÎT - "Édit du Roi, portant Suppression Union des OFFICES CLAUSTRAUX de l'Ordre de St Benoit." Donné à Versailles le 1er Octobre 1772 - Imprimé de la Veuve d'André GIROUD, Imprimeur-Libraire du Parlement (du Dauphiné) 4pp in-4° - "... we are informed that a large number of Monasteries of the Order of St. Benedict in our Kingdom, Cloistered Chapels, other Cloistered Offices, even Monastic Places, have become, through the succession of times, a species of distinct Benefices separate from the Conventual Menses, and that they are possessed e titre by Regulars. This abuse, introduced by an ancient custom, is no less contrary to the temporal good of monasteries than to the maintenance of regular discipline,...