invited him to Rome, offering him a yearly stipend of 500 ducats, and undertaking to establish and maintain his press there.

STIPEND, a fixed periodical payment or salary for services rendered.

A stipend, ranging from 5000 francs a year to 250 francs, was attached to each grade of the institution.

An Act of Assembly of 1753 declares pactions simoniacal whereby a minister or probationer before presentation and as a means of obtaining it bargains not to raise a process of augmentation of stipend or demand reparation or enlargement of his manse or glebe after induction.

He now became bishop of Autun, with a stipend of 22,000 livres, and was installed on the r 5th of March.