Examples of 'prebend' in a sentence

Meaning of "prebend"

Prebend historically referred to a stipend or portion of income assigned to a clergy member
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  • A stipend paid to a canon of a cathedral.
  • The property or other source of this endowment.
  • Political patronage employment.
  • A prebendary.

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A prebend was a stipend derived from an estate owned by the cathedral.
Aymer received a prebend in the diocese of London.
When he returned to return to Poland he was given a prebend at Sandomir.
He also held a prebend in the diocese of Lincoln.
On his return to Poland he was given a prebend at Sandomir.
BC a prebend had been provided to the priest.
He may have held the prebend of Husthwaite.
The prebend was in the gift of the Archbishop of Dublin.
He may also have held a prebend in the diocese of London.
Prebend of Cantlers.
His emoluments were taken away and his prebend was filled in October.
The prebend of Crohane was united to the archdeaconry of Cashel for more than 200 years.
This attempt proved unsuccessful as the prebend was already occupied by an absentee Italian cleric.
There were eleven Canons, each with a prebend.
He obtained a prebend of Gloucester.

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At twenty-four he was ordained a priest and became a prebend at St. Gudule.
He was a Canon with prebend in the Cathedral of Naples.
On 2 September the commissioners suspended Smart, and sequestered his prebend.
He was also a Prebend of Lichfield.
Canons of Durham, Second prebend.
Who we are and who we prebend to be, is unwinnable.
Talbot made Rundle his domestic chaplain, and gave him a prebend of Salisbury Cathedral.
For instance, some prebend for the most important families.
Through inheritance and purchase Svaneholm Castle came to the possession of Prebend Gyllenstierna in 1611.
He was ordained, and obtained the prebend of Kilroot, near Belfast.
On taking orders in 1639 he was collated to the Salisbury prebend of Nether-Avon.
In 1554 he also was given a prebend at Ste Catherine in Troyes.
In 1330 the hospital and its church was erected into a prebend of Aberdeen Cathedral.
In 1429 Tarbolton was erected into a prebend or canonry of Glasgow Cathedral.
In September 1619 Echlin conferred on him the prebend of Kilroot.
There were also six Canons, each of whom had a prebend attached to his office.
Father La Combe was the bishop 's prebend and his confessor.
Before the death of William the Conqueror, Ranulf held a prebend in the diocese of Salisbury.
The following year Parker gave Joscelyn a prebend in Hereford, held until 1577.
In 1701 he became Archdeacon of Totnes and received a prebend in Exeter Cathedral.

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