"prebend" does not yet appear, neither do the distinctive names of the stalls. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
Each prebend carried with it a cure of souls, yet all. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
I wish I was owner of them; they belong to a prebend. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
About the same time he was presented to the prebend of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
In 1721 he had been given a prebend at Salisbury by Bishop. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
In 1631-2 he vacated his prebend, and went, I conjecture, to. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference
But some priests receive a prebend or money for singing masses. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The prebend of Stanwick was worth about twice as much as any other. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Thurstan added one more canon to the staff by founding the prebend of. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
‘And as for the prebend, after what has passed, of course you must accept it.’. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
Melanchthon, the Elector of Saxony had conferred on Alesius the prebend of Aldenburgh. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference
He seems to have succeeded in keeping out of trouble until the Restoration, when he was restored to his prebend. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Tereda translated the English Liturgy into Spanish (1623), and was repaid by presentation to a prebend at Hereford. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference
Most important of all, he decreed in 1303 that the cure of souls in each prebend was to be entrusted to a vicar-perpetual. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
We heard much fine chanting by the choir, and an admirable sermon, preached by a venerable prebend, on “Tares and Wheat.”. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
In 1756 he was preferred by the emperor to a prebend at Florence, and appointed principal librarian to the Laurentian library. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
London, gave him a prebend in St. Paul's Cathedral, and the dean and chapter appointed him reader of the divinity lesson there. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
B.D. in 1706, and, by favour of the Bishop of Winchester, got a prebend in his cathedral, and the rectory of Brightwell, Berks. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850] Reference
"Polymetus," and of "Spence's Anecdotes," and prebend of Durham, to his father, who had forbidden him to enter into the society of the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Father La Combe was the bishop's prebend and his confessor. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Madame Guyon] Reference
Majesty's confirmation of his prebend, they all said that he could do so. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
"And as for the prebend, after what has passed, of course you must accept it.". From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
You know my cousin the prebend; well, he confided to me a very terrible affair. From Wordnik.com. [Faust's Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt. English] Reference
Dr. Lort, I suppose, is removing to a living or a prebend, at least; I hope so. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
Lord Capel, he obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor, of about a hundred pounds a year. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference
Robert Bossu, was annexed as a prebend to the cathedral of Lincoln, by the bishops of that diocese to whom it then belonged. From Wordnik.com. [A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers] Reference
About the same time he received a prebend from the Dean of Lincoln, and soon after he became Provost of Eton and Dean of Carlisle. From Wordnik.com. [English Book Collectors] Reference
Dr. Heylyn remarks that 'he was a perfect diocese within himself, as being bishop, dean, prebend, residentiary, and parson, all at once.'. From Wordnik.com. [English Book Collectors] Reference
Chicheley being created Bishop of St. David's, who held that prebend, to which he had been presented by Richard Medford, a former Bishop of. From Wordnik.com. [Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.