Robert C. Palmer, "Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350-1550" Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | 2004 | ISBN 0807827436 | PDF | 345 pages | 10.1 MB
In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees.
