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Bewys, dat het een predikant met zijn huysvrouw alleen niet mogelijk en is op 500. guldens eerlijck te leven :, want hy nootsaeckelijck 's jaers dit volgende van doen heeft, ..
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Extensive searches across multiple catalogs (including Google Books, Internet Archive, and OpenAlex) confirm that this 1666 Dutch pamphlet by Pieter de Menagie is a highly specific, localized polemical text. No English translation, partial or complete, was found in any of the searched databases. Given the nature of the work as an ephemeral 17th-century Dutch administrative/economic pamphlet, it is highly unlikely to have been translated into English.
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Pieter de Menagie pulls back the curtain on the hidden poverty of 17th-century clergy. He uses a cold, hard budget to prove that five hundred guilders was a recipe for ruin. This text reveals the impossible gap between the high expectations of the pulpit and the harsh reality of the household ledger.