El clero murciano frente a la presión fiscal. Un documento de 1668

Authors

  • Antonio Irigoyen López

Keywords:

Modern Age, taxation, clergy, exemption, Millones, defraudation, Murcia

Abstract

The growing fiscal pressure created for the Monarchy during the Seventeenth Century crashed with the opposition of the privileged groups. The clergy was not prepared to give up an immunity that was considering secular. For this reason, they only consented to pay after obtained the papal permit; in this way safeguarded their jurisdiction. However, the ecclesiastics will enploy many ways to escape of the public taxes. T11e defraudation was one of them. A document of 1668 shows what type of defraudations employed the Murcia's clergymen to be remitted of the payments.

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