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 514 Readings in Ettropean History The annates, both the servitia communia and the servitia minuta^ The collation to benefices and expectative favors. 2 What cases are to be brought before the Roman curia and what not. Appeals to the Roman curia. The functions of the [papal] chancery and penitentiary. Exemptions and incorporations made during the schism. Benefices in commendam. Confirmation of elections. Income during vacancies. The non-alienation of the possessions of the Roman church or other churches. For what reasons and in what manner a pope shall be corrected or deposed. The extirpation of heresy. Dispensations. The means of support of pope and cardinals. Indulgences. Tenths. When the above-mentioned deputies shall have been appointed by the "nations," it shall be free to the others, with the permission of the pope, to return home. BIBLIOGRAPHY A. Refer- The Papacy in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries : ADAMS, ences. Civilization, Chapter XVI, pp. 392-415; LODGE, pp. 196-201 ; WALKER, Reformation, Chapter I. Wycliffe: GREEN, Short History, pp. 235-244. Documents in Trans- lations and Reprints, Vol. II, No. 5. For treatment of the Lollards, see LEE, pp. 209-223. Council of Constance : LODGE, pp. 206-221. 1 The annates, or payment to the pope of a half, more or less, of the first year's revenue from benefices to which he appointed, was divided in such a way that the pope and cardinals received the so-called servitia communia, while the balance, the so-called servitia minuta, fell to the lower officials of the papal chancery. 2 Benefices promised by the pope while the incumbent still lived.