Note XXXVII‑32 — Chapter XXXVII · GUATEMALA AND CHIAPAS. 1701-1800.

Among other charges made against the clergy of this period may be mentioned the following: sick persons were compelled to go to the church to receive extreme unction, many dying on the road thither; Indians were compelled to marry at a tender age in order to increase their contributions; fraternities were organized, to the members of which great pecuniary loss was occasioned; curates absented themselves without permission, and the priestly office was sold to the highest bidder. Ordenes de la Corona, MS., iv. 155-7.