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When the Bishoprick of Quebec was first established in 1674, the See was endowed by Louis the 14^th with the Revenues of two Abbacies, those of Benevent and L'Estrees; about 30 Years ago the Bishop then finding it difficult, considering the distance, to recover the revenues of them by consent of Louis the 15^th resigned the same to the Clergy of France, to be united to a particular revenue of theirs stiled the Æconomats applied to the augmentation of small livings. In consideration of which the Bishop of this See has ever since received 8,000 Livres out of the said Revenues. A few Years before the late Bishops death, the Clergy of France granted him for his life only a further pension of 2000 Livres. The Bishop had no estate whatsoever, except his palace in Quebec destroyed by our Artillery, a Garden and the Ground rent of two or three Houses adjoining it and built upon some part of the land.