two hundred sermons

Each [Protestant - vs] priest was expected to deliver at least two hundred sermons a year, including two each Sunday. Drafts had to be sent to the consistory for approval and hour glasses were set up in churches to ensure parishioners were not short changed.
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The new clergy were maintained by confiscating the material assets of the Catholic church that lay within the ruler's political jurisdiction.

- Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War, By Peter H. Wilson. pg 33