09-05-2023, 11:56 PM
(09-05-2023, 03:35 PM)Bernd wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.But geese for the clergy seems a bit of a stretch as is a mistranslation of "tl" to "m".
Why would geese for the clergy be a stretch? Also might be some kind of jargon, e.g. if a certain day in the year when the tax was due was somehow associated with church, then the respective tax might have been called "clerical".
About mistranslation, if you search for "geismich" on Google Books you will find several mis-recognitions of "geistlich". That's of course the OCR fault and is thus something different, but anyway.