How To Use Prebend In A Sentence
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It therefore came to light that Mr. Jobbles had found that his clerical position was hardly compatible with a seat at a lay board, and he retired to the more congenial duties of a comfortable prebendal stall at Westminster.
The Three Clerks
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Within each colonial prebend tribal jealousies and differences were exploited by colonial masters to maximize political power and economic advantage.
Matthew Bergman: The Obama Manifesto
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In 1780, he was installed prebendary at Carlisle, and resigned Appleby on becoming archdeacon in 1782.
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The chapter of Vexiö consisted of dean, archdeacon, subdean, and eleven prebendaries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]
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He was a conspicuous pluralist in the diocese, annexing to his bishopric a number of Salisbury prebends, two abbeys, and several churches.
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On the day after his return he received proper authentic tidings of his presentation to the prebend.
Framley Parsonage
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A resident bishop, a resident dean, an archdeacon, three or four resident prebendaries, and all their numerous chaplains, vicars, and ecclesiastical satellites, do make up a society sufficiently powerful to be counted as something by the county squirearchy.
Doctor Thorne
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He was appointed to the curacy of Brampton, near Wakefield in 1772, eventually becoming prebendary of Lincoln cathedral from 1786 until his death.
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Such an occasion had now come, and he had desired his sister to give the new Lord Petty Bag no rest till he should have promised to use all his influence in getting the vacant prebend for Mark Robarts.
Framley Parsonage
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Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise distinguished in letters, who published an account of it at Verona in 1731, which he afterwards republished at Rome.
Bleak House
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III had a prebendaryship conferred on him by the Archbishop of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Reverend J.T. Becher, prebendary of Southwell minster, who objected to what he considered the too voluptuous coloring of the poem
Fugitive Pieces
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Rational Review
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Cathedrals which were not monastic foundations, and collegiate churches, were served by secular clergy, the canons or prebendaries, who constituted the capitular body or chapter.
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Whatever the husband might feel, the wife cared nothing for frowns of dean, archdeacon, or prebendary.
Barchester Towers
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The Bishop of Lincoln granted him the canonry and prebend of Leighton Bromswold, a living which was an easy yoke in terms of duties, affording him the chance to serve in a manner he felt consistent with his powers.
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His father had held a prebendal stall at Ely in times when prebendal stalls were worth more than they are at present, and having also been possessed of a living in the neighbourhood, had amassed a considerable sum of money.
Can You Forgive Her?
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When you tension the backstay so the headstay becomes straight, the mast will then have prebend in it.
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In Maronia pia, or Maronia felix, I know not whether, nor how long since, nor in what cathedral church, a fat prebend fell void.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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prebend" does not yet appear, neither do the distinctive names of the stalls.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch
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The wives and daughters of the old prebendaries see well to that.
He Knew He Was Right
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The aristocracy of Barchester consisted chiefly of clerical dignitaries, bishops, deans, prebendaries, and such like: on them and theirs it was not probable that anything said by Sir Roger would have much effect.
Doctor Thorne
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In 1741 he became a prebendary of York Cathedral, and married Elizabeth Lumley, a cousin of Elizabeth Montagu, but his domestic and family life was not happy, and of their several children all were stillborn but a daughter, Lydia.
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In 1558 he was granted a canonry in the collegiate church of Tournai and at the time of his death he held numerous prebends.
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So the Prebendary went into the house in a kind of dwam, as the Scots put it, and had no notion of what the Dean had to say; and when he got back to the garden he found his gardener smoothing the plot with a long rake, and raking in a lot of dead ants with the mould.
Dr Duthoit’s Vision
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Cathedrals which were not monastic foundations, and collegiate churches, were served by secular clergy, the canons or prebendaries, who constituted the capitular body or chapter.
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At twenty-four he had been a deacon, at twenty - seven a priest, at thirty a rector, and at thirty-five a prebendary; and as his rectory was rich and his prebendal stall well paid, the Rev. Augustus Horne was called by all, and called himself, a happy man.
Tales of all countries
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He had to deal with the rents of episcopal properties, to correspond with clerical claimants, and to be at home with the circumstances of underpaid vicars and perpetual curates with much less than 300 pounds a-year; but yet he was as jolly and pleasant at his desk as though he were busied about the collection of the malt tax, or wrote his letters to admirals and captains instead of to deans and prebendaries.
He Knew He Was Right
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To this the dean assented, but alleged that contests on such a subject would be unseemly; to which rejoined a meagre little doctor, one of the cathedral prebendaries, that the contest must be all on the side of Mr. Slope if every prebendary were always there ready to take his own place in the pulpit.
Barchester Towers
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From 1867 to 1872 he was third cursal prebendary of S. David's
The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral
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Claiming legitimate control of prebends in an area is enabled by the political currency of concepts such as autochtony and allogeny.
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Rational Review
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Many prebends and bishoprics were preserved for them; and even at this day the Turkish sultan makes canons and bishops, without the pope having ever made an imam or a mollah.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The Bishop of Lincoln granted him the canonry and prebend of Leighton Bromswold, a living which was an easy yoke in terms of duties, affording him the chance to serve in a manner he felt consistent with his powers.
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He was also precentor and one of the residentiaries of York cathedral, and prebendary of Driffield.
Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.
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This very journey of his up to London would be most imprudent, if it should become necessary for him to give up all hope of holding the prebend.
Framley Parsonage
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Although he was canon and prebendary of Llandaff from 1295, and from 1299 archdeacon of Shropshire, he was only a moderate pluralist.
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Thus there may be found many a courtling at Rome who alone holds twenty-two cures, seven priories, and forty-four prebends, all which is done in virtue of this masterly gloss, so as not to be contrary to law.
Of the Matters to be Considered in the Councils
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Stanhope, who also fills the prebendal stall of Goosegorge in
The Warden
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The Seward family cultivated an 'open door' policy at the Bishop's Palace, holding breakfast, tea, dinner and supper parties and musical evenings, to which many from the prebendary houses in The Close: The Addenbrookes, Smallbrookes, Woodhouses, Vyses and the Garrick ladies.
Anna Seward (1742-1809)
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And when it was also suggested to him by one of the prebendaries of the Cathedral that it might be well for him to change his clerical duties for a period with the vicar of a remote parish in the north of Cornwall so as to be out of the way of remark from those whom he had scandalised by his conduct, he had no objection to make to that arrangement.
He Knew He Was Right
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Luckily for him, this state of suspense was not long, for within half an hour of his leaving the breakfast-table, the footman knocked at his door — that footman with whom, at the beginning of his difficulties, he had made up his mind to dispense, but who had been kept on because of the Barchester prebend.
Framley Parsonage
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Bertie: and so the last adieux were made, and the prebendary led out Mrs. Bold, followed by his son.
Barchester Towers
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This year is the 300th anniversary of his appointment as the prebendary of Dunalvin.
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A notable pluralist, he received lucrative ecclesiastical preferments from the king, including prebends in six cathedrals, pensions, and livings.
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But then, as to that house at Barchester, the dignified prebendal mansion in the close — might they not be allowed to leave it unoccupied for one year longer — perhaps to let it?
Framley Parsonage
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Hence, for a subdiaconal prebend twenty years complete, for a diaconal twenty-one years complete, and for a presbyteral twenty-three years complete sufficed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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The late Rev. Love Robertson, Prebendary of Hereford (son of the above George Robertson), was accustomed to use: Gu. three wolves 'heads erased arg., armed and langued az., which are the arms of the original stock of Strowan.
Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851
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He was also chancellor, prebend, and canon residentiary and portionist of the church of Hereford.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
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In this manner the question of the prebend was discussed between them on the evening before he started for London.
Framley Parsonage
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Eleanor was very much afraid that Charlotte would have darted out upon her, as the prebendary got out at his own door, but Bertie had thoughtfully saved her from this by causing the carriage to go round by her own house.
Barchester Towers
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‘I remember it as well as if it was yesterday, and old Dr. Ball, the prebendary, with the carbuncles on his nose, saw it too!’
He Knew He Was Right
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The dean, the three higher dignitaries, and the prebendaries constituted the Chapter, in certain matters the non-residentiaries having no jurisdiction, and, as recorded in their Visitations, exercised a very great authority over their various manors.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch
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‘And as for the prebend, after what has passed, of course you must accept it.’
Framley Parsonage
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“The bishop would do anything for him,” said the little prebendary.
Barchester Towers
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Mr. Harte is returned in perfect health from Cornwall, and has taken possession of his prebendal house at Windsor, which is a very pretty one.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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He argues that as a prebendal state, in which there is an intensive and persistent struggle to control and exploit the offices of the state, it has graduated ‘from kleptocracy to the Felonious state’.
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Chafing at his position of dependence, and indignant at Temple's delay in getting him preferment, he returned to Ireland, was ordained, and received the small prebend of Kilroot.
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He could not but feel, he said, that he had received the prebendal stall from the hands of Mr Sowerby; and under such circumstances, considering all that had happened, he could not be easy in his mind as long as he held it.
Framley Parsonage
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Public resentment against this trend increased to the degree that appointees converted their posts into prebends.
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The obligation of residence was removed from the prebends; four new resident canonries were created, and the revenues of the prebends alienated.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch
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This community life becoming more and more rare after the end of the ninth century, each canon received his own share of the mensal revenues – his "prebend".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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How glorious to out-top the archdeacon in his own cathedral city; to sit above prebendaries and canons and have the cathedral pulpit and all the cathedral services altogether at his own disposal!
Barchester Towers
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By this scheme the greater part of the authority was entrusted to the dean and the residentiaries, and the thirty prebends became almost honorary, excepting that the old fees had still to be paid on installation.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch
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His father the prebendary had not said this in so many words, but had he done so, he could not have signified it more plainly.
Barchester Towers
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Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.
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He held a prebendal stall in the diocese, one of the best residences in the close, and the two large rectories of Crabtree Canonicorum and
Barchester Towers
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The doctor was one of her prebendaries, one of her rectors, one of her pillars of strength; and was, moreover, counted on as a sure ally both by Proudies and Grantlys.
Barchester Towers
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To this the dean assented, but alleged that contests on such a subject would be unseemly; to which rejoined a meagre little doctor, one of the cathedral prebendaries, that the contest must be all on the side of Mr. Slope if every prebendary were always there ready to take his own place in the pulpit.
Barchester Towers
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She feared that Greek from Chaldicotes, even when he came with the present of a prebendal stall in his hands.
Framley Parsonage
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Mr. Slope in the cathedral, they would hear him elsewhere; they would leave the dull dean, the dull old prebendaries, and the scarcely less dull young minor canons to preach to each other; they would work slippers and cushions and hem bands for Mr. Slope, make him a happy martyr, and stick him up in some new Sion or Bethesda, and put the cathedral quite out of fashion.
Barchester Towers
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His rectories were inhabited by his curates, and he felt himself from disuse to be unfit for parochial duty; but his prebendal home was kept empty for him, and he thought it probable that he might be able now and again to preach a prebendal sermon.
Barchester Towers
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He is one of our prebendaries — a good, quiet sort of man himself.
Barchester Towers
