# Absence fee; recusant fine

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## Definition

A former levy in cash to the upper ecclesiastical authority (diocese) on the part of those clergy who drew regular income from more than one salaried appointment (prebend; prepend), sometimes called table money. - One-time or ongoing payment by a monastery to redeem claims from a panisbrief (bread letter, food letter, lay lord's prebend). - In Germany, a Panisbrief was a written order, first from the emperor and later also from the sovereigns, to a monastery to grant a certain layman (Panist, Laienpfründner) a livelihood for life or for a certain period of time. -- Formerly also a penalty payment for persons who stayed away from religious services; said especially in reference to Catholics in England who refused to attend the services of the Church of England as required by law (recusants: Roman Catholics in the 16th to 18th century who did not attend the services of the Church of England, as was required by law). - See annuities, benefit money, penalty money, table money. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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