eleemosynam

Updated: May 13, 2025

But when open penance may sometimes work in certain persons more hurt than good, it is commendable and allowable in that case to punish by the purse, and preserve the fame of the party; foreseeing always the money be converted in usus pios et eleemosynam, and thus we think of the thing, and that the offenders should be punished.

James Anthony Froude - The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)

The king was empowered, at his discretion, to permit them to survive; and under this permission thirty-two houses were refounded in perpetuam eleemosynam. This is the history of the first suppression of the monasteries under Henry VIII. We regret the depravity by which it was occasioned; but the measure itself, in the absence of any preferable alternative, was bravely and wisely resolved.

James Anthony Froude - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.