Note 116 The bishop of Tours himself has recorded the complaint of Chilperic, the grandson of Clovis. Ecce pauper remansit fiscus noster; ecce divitiae nostrae ad ecclesias sunt translatae: nulli penitus nisi soli Episcopi regnant (l. vi. c. 46, in tom. ii. p. 291).

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