Sentence:  ... this practice of <WSD>impropriation</WSD>, which was first set on foot by unjust and sacrilegious bulls from Rome, is justly offensive both to God and good men; as misderiving the well-meant devotions of charitable and pious souls into a wrong channel. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The act of impropriating; putting an ecclesiastical benefice or tithes in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.