The charters should be surrendered till the popular claimant of the abbacy should confirm them.
The abbot had herein a private view of advancing him to the coadjutorship in the abbacyfor the easing of his own shoulders in bearing the burden of the government of the house.
In 581 he resigned the abbacy to Bertulf, and passed the remainder of his life in close solitude, in the uninterrupted contemplation of heavenly things, in order to prepare himself for his passage to eternity.
He was succeeded in theabbacy of Condate by Minaucius, who, in 480, chose St. Eugendus his coadjutor.
The abbacy falling vacant, he was raised against his will to that dignity.
Peter and Paul, near that city, which abbacy he resigned to St. Adrian upon his arrival in England.
It is true that most, if not all, of these were recovered in about ten years, for it is on record that the Norman abbot, Theodwin, refused to accept the abbacy until the king would restore what had been taken away.
Its church had been built during the abbacy of Robert, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury; and he died and was buried at Jumièges.
Basil was obliged to quit that post in 362, he left the abbacy in the hands of S.
The king was as good as his word; that same spring he conferred on the child not only the abbacy of Font Doulce in the diocese of Saintes, but also the archbishopric of Aix, which was supposed to be vacant.
Lodovico il Moro answered in the same strain when Lorenzo thanked him for giving his son the abbacyof Miramondo.
That event happened during the abbacy of Frederic, and was one which greatly influenced the learning of the monks.
His abbacy was, therefore, held in troubled times; and in the midst of fresh invasions and Danish cruelties.
Be it known then that William de Trompington succeeded to the abbacy on the death of John; but he was a very different man, without much esteem for learning; and thinking I am afraid far more of the world and heaven or the Domus Dei.
Henry I gives abbacyto Robert, son of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester.
Samson's abbacyextended over the pontificates of five Popes and the reigns of three Kings, by all of whom his strength of character and wisdom of counsel seem to have been appreciated.
Some details of the occurrences during his abbacy are given in Battely, pp.
And then were the charters of the King concerning the gift of the abbacy produced and read in full audience.
When everything is finished and sealed before the government at Zurich, the people of the abbacy shall take the oath of allegiance, whilst Toggenburg is silenced by hopes of greater freedom.
Zurich and Glarus endeavored to quiet the people of the abbacy by promising to send home a report and afterward to communicate the views of their governments.
The abbacy of St. Gall constituted the first and most considerable of the so-called Allied Cantons; its deputies appeared at the sessions of the Diet, and its armed soldiery marched out with the other confederates in their wars.
The political relations, both of the people of the abbacyand of the Toggenburgers remained in an unsettled state.
The governor-general Frei still prolonged his official term at Wyl, stirred up the people of the abbacy and conducted their affairs.
In 1569, he exchanged his Abbacywith Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, for the temporalities of that Bishoprick.
The King commendit mekyl this punition, and gaif the Abbacyof Melros to Johne Fogo, for he was principall convikar of this Paule.
Beaton died in 1539; and Durie's appointment to the Abbacy of Dunfermline was confirmed by James the Fifth.
It is however quite certain that Ferne was held, along with the Abbacy of Kelso in commendam, by Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness, who died in 1517.
It may be added, that when Beaton was translated to Glasgow in 1551, the abbacy of Arbroath was conferred on Lord John Hamilton, second son of the Governor.
He had a grant of the Abbacy of Holyrood in 1539, while yet an infant; Alexander Myln, Commendator of Cambuskenneth, being administrator.
And this same year the king went out to Sandwich with thirty-five ships; and Athelstan, the churchwarden, succeeded to the abbacy of Abingdon, and Stigand returned to his bishopric.
The king also gave the abbacy of Abingdon to Bishop Rodulph his cousin.
And in the same Lent he went to Rome after his pall: and the king gave the bishopric of London to Sparhafoc, Abbot of Abingdon; and the king gave the abbacy of Abingdon to Bishop Rodulf, his kinsman.
And on this same occasion, among the others who accepted abbacies, Ernulf, who before was prior at Canterbury, succeeded to the abbacy in Peterborough.
Soon after this gave the king the abbacy to a monk of Sieyes, whose name was John, through the intreaty of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Then, after the death of Archbishop Oswald, succeeded Aldulf, Abbot of Peterborough, to the sees of York and of Worcester; and Kenulf to the abbacy of Peterborough.
And Leofwine, Abbot of Coventry, took to the bishopric at Lichfield; Bishop Aldred to the abbacy at Winchcomb; and Aylnoth took to the abbacy at Glastonbury.
For the subsequent history, up to the abbacy of Thomas de la Mare, thirtieth Abbot, we are indebted to Thomas of Walsingham.
If there is any truth in the story of his rejection at St. Albans, it must have happened earlier than the abbacy of Robert.
Colman was a monk in Iona during the abbacy of Segienus, the third ruler of that monastery from A.
When he was elected as Comarb of Columcille to the abbacy of Derry, in A.
But O'Brolchain being now Bishop of Derry, and the recognised head of the Columbian Order, declined to accept the abbacy of Hy, preferring to remain in Derry.
This connection also gave countenance to the ambitious designs of Turlough O'Conor, who was resolved to annex the abbacy of Clonmacnoise, with all its rich termon lands, to his own hereditary dominions.
Fintan Maeldubh, raised to theabbacy of Clonenagh, 404.
O'Curry found one of them in the Book of Leinster, purporting to be a prophecy of the coming of the Danes on Lough Ree, and their occupation of the abbacy of Armagh.
The abbacy passed to lay hereditary bishops, and the Culdees were first conjoined with, next distinguished from, and at last superseded by, the cathedral chapter.
Soon afterwards he obtained the Abbacy of Lindores in commendam; and upon the death of Henry Sinclair, Bishop of Ross, having been promoted to the vacant See, his appointment was confirmed in April 1566.
Commendatar, Commendator, who enjoys the rents of an Abbacy or other Benefice.
He obtained the Abbacy of Crossraguell in Ayrshire, in the year 1549.
He had a grant of the Abbacy of Holyrood in 1539, when only seven years of age.
John Hamilton, who afterwards became Archbishop of St. Andrews, had obtained theAbbacy of Paisley in the year 1525.
He had been educated for the Church; and obtained the Deanery of Glasgow, which he exchanged in 1550 for the Abbacy of Kilwinning.
But Lomman said, "You shall not receive my benediction unless you assume the abbacy of my church.
Fortchern took upon him the abbacy after the death of Lomman, for three days, when he went to Trim; and afterwards gave his church to Cathlai, a pilgrim.
The abbacy is still vacant, and undoubtedly at his disposal; I know not whether he will seek it or not, and by not one word will I endeavour to influence him.
On his death the abbacy was given to a Norman monk, Walter of Cerasia, and in his time the great church of which some foundations still remain was begun.
When his vanity, weakness, and love of pomp had alienated a portion of his following, he resigned his abbacy and retired.
It was to Cluny, during the abbacy of Pons, that Gélase II.
Their glebe consisted entirely of marsh and bog when the Abbacy was created.
Early in his Episcopate a dispute which arose concerning the lands of Airthrey was submitted to arbiters, one of whom was his successor in the Abbacy of Inchaffray, viz.
Robert Ramsey succeeded to theabbacy in 1346, but of him nothing particular is recorded.
It has been further conjectured by Canon Westcott that it is part of the shrine erected over the relics of St. Kyneburgha, which were removed from Castor to Peterborough during the Abbacy of Elsinus, A.
During the abbacy of Elsinus, England was invaded by the Danes under King Sweyn, in revenge of a massacre of his subjects by the order of King Ethelred.
He was succeeded by Hedda, in 833, during whose abbacy the first destruction of the monastery by the Danes occurred, which founded an important era in the history of this institution.
During his abbacy great complaints were made of the conduct of the Monks, and the heads of the Benedictine order were summoned before the King at Westminster, to answer the charge of abuses, which they could not deny, but promised to reform.
He was originally a prior of St. Albans, but was presented by King John to the abbacy of this monastery, on account of his many virtues and distinguished talents.
When James Beaton was translated to St Andrews in 1522 he resigned the rich abbacy of Arbroath in his nephew's favour, under reservation of one half of the revenues to himself during his lifetime.
It would not be surprising if Malachy, even at some risk to the security of his tenure of the abbacy at Armagh, took part in the consecration of his patron's church at Cashel.
St. Bernard, however, seems to have been mistaken in supposing that Malachy resigned the abbacy on his consecration.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abbacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: archbishopric; bishopric; curacy; deanery; episcopacy; pastorate; presbytery; primacy
