The quality of the benefices in the parish church of Huarte Araquil in the 18th century, as seen via the resignation of Sebastián de Ijurco

Abstract

With Sebastián de Ijurco, incumbent of the parish church of St. John the Baptist in Huarte Araquil, being over seventy years of age and ill, it was clear that he would be unable to continue carrying out his work, which is why he resigned from his post at the service of His Holiness, albeit in favour of his nephew, the student Sebastián Fermín de Huarte, for a sum of money. Permission from the Pope to do so resulted in two people coming to the fore who were against what had been hitherto agreed upon: on the one hand, Pedro Miguel de Huarte, a local resident...