annals

pl. [ANNAL.] ăn'-nạt ( Eng . & Scotch), * ann ( Scotch ), s. Often in the plural, ăn-nats, an-nātes. [In Ger. annaten; Fr. & Ital. annate ; Sp. anata; Port. annat a . From Lat. ann us = a year.] L. "Primitiœ" (First-fruits): 1. When the Papal power was dominant: The first year's revenues of a benefice which each new incumbent was required to remit to the papal treasury. Cowel says that first-fruits were called annates because paid after one year's profit of a living had been obtained. The original imposition of annates is generally attributed to John XXII. in the fourteenth century, but they existed before his time. Valuations of them were made in England in A.D. 1254 and in 1292. (See Mosheim's Church Hist., Cent. xiv., pt. ii., ch. ii., § 6, Murdoch's note; also Cent. xv., pt. ii., ch. ii., § 532.) "Though the Council of Basil damned the payment of annats , yet they were paid here till Henry VIIL annexed them for ever to the crown." Bp . Barlow : Remains, p. 172 2. Since the Reformation: (a) In England : The first-fruits exacted by Henry VIII. in England, at the Reformation, were the annates of the bishoprics, which the king had di evered from the Pope. They were valued in A.D. 1535, the result being recorded in what was generally called Liber Regis (the King's Book). By this valuation the clergy still are rated. During the reign of Queen Anne, the annates were given up to form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings. [QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY.] which annates, or first-fruits, were first suffered to be taken within the realm, for the only defence of Christian people against the Infidels." Acts of Parl., 33 ann. Hen, VIII, 81. "No annates would be sent any longer to Rome."Froude: Hist. Eng . , ch. vii., vol. ii., p. 194. (b) In Ireland: Before the pa ing of the first Reform Bill the annates were applied primarily to the repair of ecclesiastical buildings, and then to the augmentation of poor livings; but about a year after that event the annates were abolished, their place being supplied by a graduated tax on the higher clerical incomes. (c) In Scotland , the annat is declared by Car. II., Parl. Se . 3, cap. 13, to be due to the executors of a deceased minister, and to be half a year's stipend in addition to what he had earned by his official services up to the time of his death. [For details see Compend of the Laws of the Church of Scotland (1830), p. 326.] II. In the modern Church of Rome: Ma es said for a year either for the soul of a person deceased, or for that of a person living. (See Ayliffe's Parergon .)