One prebend is held by Sir Richard Leveson; one by Mr. Gualter Wriotesley; two by Richard Cresswell.
The Prebendhad little to do with Willenhall, except in name.
Each prebend of Wolverhampton church was endowed with the income arising from the lands from which it took its name; as, the prebend of Willenhall.
A prebendary, it may be explained, is one who enjoys a prebend or canonical portion; that is, who receives in right of his place, a share out of the common stock of the church for his maintenance.
In 1699 Temple died, and left a legacy with his manuscripts to Swift, for whom he had obtained, from King William, a promise of the first prebend that should be vacant at Westminster or Canterbury.
In 1699 Temple died, and left a legacy with his manuscripts to Swift, for whom he had obtained, from king William, a promise of the first prebend that should be vacant at Westminster or Canterbury.
Thus the collegiate establishment differed from the usual type in which each prebend was a separate parish with a church of its own.
Most important of all, he decreed in 1303 that the cure of souls in each prebend was to be entrusted to a vicar-perpetual.
A canon would often leave his prebend in the spiritual charge of a vicar engaged by the year, or under the administration of a proctor, or would even farm it out--sometimes to a layman.
Whether its existing fabric is as old as the Reformation or not, this was the site upon which dwelt the Canons of the mediæval prebend of Thorp.
Each prebend carried with it a cure of souls, yet all (except Stanwick) were included in the huge parish of Ripon, which extended to Pateley Bridge, and in 1300 had a radius of nine or ten miles.
Thurstan added one more canon to the staff by founding the prebend of Sharow.
He held the livings of Llanwnda, Tenby, and Angle, and afterwards the prebend of Mathry, in Pembrokeshire, and the living of Chesterton in Oxfordshire.
Later he received the prebendof Willenhall in the collegiate church of Wolverhampton, and in 1616 he accompanied James Hay, Lord Doncaster, afterwards earl of Carlisle, to France, where he was sent to congratulate Louis XIII.
After despatching a letter of expostulation and warning, he turned toward Parma, where another prebend had recently been granted him by the Pope.
He had little more to give--his pension, a tiny income from his prebend and his Marquisat de Quinet.
In one way or another, he got back a part of the property his stepmother had alienated from him, and obtained a prebend in the diocese of Mans, which made up his income to something more respectable.
Castillion, Prebendof Canterbury, preached before the King, on John xv.
Educated at Oxford under the care of "the judicious Hooker," he obtained a prebend in the church of York.
In this manner the question of the prebend was discussed between them on the evening before he started for London.
In the first place, my income will not be what you think it, for I shall probably give up the prebendat Barchester.
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.
Archbishop Laud gave him the living of Minster, Kent, and a Prebend in the Cathedral of Canterbury.
Though a layman, he held the Prebend of Shipston, in the Church of Salisbury, which was then first annexed to the Law Professorship by James I.
Under Queen Mary he abandoned his principles, and obtained considerable preferment; a Prebend in the Church of Winchester, and the Treasurership of Salisbury.
Fuller was not formally dispossessed of his living and prebend on the triumph of the Presbyterian party, but he relinquished both preferments about this time.
In June of the same year his uncle gave him a prebend in Salisbury, where his father, who died in the following year, held a canonry.
Hederington succeeded to [thorn]e prebendof Ailesbury in 1290.
It is sometimes forgotten that a Prebend is a thing; a Prebendary a person.
A Prebend of Westminster for my second son would soften the Catos of Cornhill, and lull the Gracchi of the Metropolitan Boroughs.
Cardinal Beaufort had in the April of 1422 promised to get him a prebend for his church,--a simple, as distinguished from a dignitary prebend.
Certain courtiers, thinking to put Hugh in the way of obliging the king, suggested that a vacant prebend at Lincoln should be given to one of themselves.
He was already Archdeacon of Oxford, Canon of Lincoln, and Prebend of Hereford, but alas!
This, combined with a notice of detention of prebend for all non-resident and non-represented canons, must have brought the faithful up in goodly numbers to their ecclesiastical centre.
But such a prebend was difficult to get and patrons were uncertain and often disappointing.
One Johnson (a schoolmaster of the famous free-school there) became a prebend of Windsor, and then by little and little followed the spoil of this hospital.
In September, 1682, the poet's father was collated to the prebend of Gillingham Minor, in the church of Sarum, by Bishop Ward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prebend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
