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A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
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The property or other source of this endowment.
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Political patronage employment.
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A prebendary.
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A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
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The property or other source of this endowment.
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Political patronage employment.
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A prebendary.
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To bend in advance.
Sometimes it was given to deans alone or to prebendaries in the parishes whence they derived their prebends.
For his son, before he was eighteen years old, he procured a deanery, four archdeaconries, five prebends and a chancellorship, and he sought to thrust him into the bishopric of Durham.
He was originally a clerk in orders, and held several prebends; but in 1096 he joined the first crusade, and accompanied his brother Godfrey as far as Heraclea in Asia Minor.
He was titular archbishop of Apamea in Syria, and held several rich prebends in Italy.
The result was the rapid promotion of Williams in the church; he obtained several livings besides prebends at Hereford, Lincoln and Peterborough.
The practice of the nomination of bishops by the Curia and of papal recommendation to prebends and benefices of every kind grew daily more general, and the number of appeals to Rome and exemptions granted to abbeys and even to simple churches increased continually.
Fox replied with some warmth, and Wolsey had to wait until Fox's death before he could add Winchester to his archbishopric of York and his abbey of St Albans, and thus leave Durham vacant as he hoped for the illegitimate son on whom (aged 18) he had already conferred a deanery, four archdeaconries, five prebends and a chancellorship.
At the Domesday Survey much of the land was still uncultivated, but its prosperity increased, and in 126 9 each of the twelve prebends of the collegiate church had a house and farmland within the parish.
The bishop of Hereford being dead, on the 12th of July 1361, the king presented Wykeham to a prebend in Hereford cathedral, and on the 24th of July to one in Bromyard collegiate church; the bishop of St David's being dead, prebends in the collegiate churches of Abergwilly and Llandewybrewi were given him on the 16th of July.
The Salisbury records show him also admitted to a prebend there on the r 6th of August, which he exchanged for other prebends on the 9th and 15th of October.
Next year, 1362, he entered holy orders, being ordained subdeacon on the 12th of March and priest on the 12th of June; and adding to his canonries and prebends one in Shaftesbury Abbey on the r 5th of July and another in Lincoln cathedral on the 10th of August.
On the 31st of October he was made a canon of York, and on the 15th of December provost of the fourteen prebends of Combe in Wells cathedral, while at some date unknown he obtained also prebends in Bridgenorth collegiate church and St Patrick's, Dublin, and the rectory of Menheniot in Cornwall.
He had been born in the same year as Wykeham, and like him had profited by papal provisions to prebends in 1361, but had since led an attack on papal and clerical abuses.
The deaneries are in the gift of the crown, canonries and prebends sometimes in that of the crown, sometimes in that of the bishops.
He held several prebends, was dean of St Asaph and then dean of Wells, and became bishop of Norwich in 1413.
In the Anglican Church the bishop is of common right patron of all prebends, and if a prebend is in the gift of a lay patron he must present his candidate to the bishop who institutes as to other benefices.
All these prebends were generally assigned to special holders, but there were also praebendae currentes, which were not held by any persons in particular.
Sometimes prebends were held by boys who sang in choir, praebendae pueriles.
He appears to have been very acquisitive in his ability to obtain prebends holding many during his life.
Bangor cathedral had only two prebends, but a number of persons called ' canons ' of Bangor have been found.
It is uncertain when territorial prebends were introduced, all that can be stated for certain is that it was during the thirteenth century.
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