After his institution by the Bishop of Exeter to the livings of Lanteglos juxta Camelford and that of Advent, Dr.
In many parishes, where the livings are good too, there is neither parsonage-house nor church!
Half the population perished in the plague, half the livings went suddenly begging; and in the Church, as on the farm, labour was at a sudden premium.
Before the Black Death, an enormous proportion of the livings in lay advowson were given to persons who were not in priest's orders, and often not in holy orders at all.
Margin,) Where then are pluralities and fatnesse of livings in our dayes.
The decision on the clause for taking livings was deferred, and nothing further was done on this question, the death of the king on the 20th of June precluding all further consideration of it.
This tax, however, was not to be imposed on clergymen whose livings were under £200 per annum.
The sum thus collected was to be applied under commissioners to the abolition of church-cess; the augmentation of poor livings and building of glebe-houses; the division of unions, and the erection of churches.
In the committee, also, it was agreed that beneficed clergymen in present possession of their livings were to be exempted from the graduated tax: it was only to affect their successors.
The property of the Church having fallen into the hands of the aristocracy, the generality of country livings were poor, and depended chiefly on the small tithes and a miserable glebe of a few acres.
The Presbyterians were delighted at the prospect thus afforded of free admission to good livings and dignities; but the Episcopalians intended nothing less than that any such thing should ever come to pass.
This was to admit the ejected ministers to such of their livings as were vacant, or to appoint them to others, provided they would accept collation from the bishop, and attend the presbyteries and synods.
It did not, however, give satisfaction to the Church, for it admitted all such as entered on livings legally vacant at the time to retain them.
Presbyterian ministers could be admitted to the pulpits andlivings of the Church by accepting from a bishop a simple command to preach, administer the sacraments, and perform all the ministerial offices of the Church.
But to support men in holding livings in a Church which they had abandoned was so outrageous a violation of that Church's conscience, that it was impossible long to be submitted to.
One of the most striking acts of this reign was the grant of the first-fruits and tenths of church livings to the poor clergy.
This was given them by the Lords, who, insisting on appointing ministers to livings in his gift, called on Laud to collate the vacant benefices to such persons as they should nominate.
At first, many of the Puritans overcame their scruples so far as to comply with the required oath and accept livings in the Establishment.
Under the direction of Parker, great numbers were suspended from their livings for non-conformity, and sent to wander in a state of destitution.
The seventy-nine parishes are held by forty rectors; two of them possess four livings each, eight of them possess three livings each, and seventeen two each.
We know of Bishop Hughes, of St. Asaph, that he held sixteen rich livings in commendam, and left his diocese in the disgraceful condition already described in the early part of this article.
He was one of the few pluralists who still remain, residing on one of his livings in a midland county, and holding another in a large manufacturing town in the North of England.
If livings are to be purchased at all, they should bear a price commensurate with the dignity and responsibility of the sacred office.
No one believed that any large number of ministers would relinquish livings and stipends and cast their bread upon the waters for what many thought a 'fantastic principle.
The legal patrons of livings retained their right of nominating to vacancies; the Triers only checked that right by examination of nominees and the rejection of the unfit.
The information about Cromwell's practice in his patronage oflivings is from the last.
That such ministers did hold livings in Cromwell's Established Church is a fact.
She had aided her father in his indifference to his professional duties, counselling him that his livings were as much as his individual property as the estates of his elder brother were the property of that worthy peer.
You must have a confounded many livings at command, I think.
By this project the presentation to Church livings was to be taken out of his hands on his accession.
The bulk of the greatlivings throughout the country were in their hands.
The bishops to a man, and the bulk of the clergy whose bent was purely episcopal, had joined the royal cause, and were being expelled from their livings as "delinquents.
As to the clergy of our own kingdom, their livings are generally larger.
Mr. Austen's death placed his widow and daughters in straitened circumstances; for most of his income had been derived from the livings of Steventon and Deane.
Index read one earlier volume containing a list of livings in the diocese of Norwich, with their values and incumbents.
The livings in the gift of the Chancellor were originally intended as a provision for them, and an order was made in Parliament, 4 Edw.
Bishopricks and other Livings as will competently serve to procure fat poultry for the filling of their insatiate stomacks; in which regard, Church livings had more need to be encreased than diminished.
And a good many of them sold the livings in their gift to the highest bidder.
At the time, Bridestowe cum Sourton, one of the best livings in the gift of the Bishop, was held by Chancellor Marston.
His father held twolivings near Northampton--Western Favell and Collington; but, though the joint incomes only amounted to 180l.
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