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Example sentences for "prebendaries"

Lexicographically close words:
prearranged; prearrangement; prease; prebend; prebendal; prebendary; prebends; precarious; precariously; precariousness
  1. If the prebendaries and rectors can't drink it,' said your father, 'the curates will.

  2. Yes," said the archdeacon, "and the houses in the Close which used to be the residences of the prebendaries have been leased out to tallow-chandlers and retired brewers.

  3. When the chaunt was over, Burnet read the Prince's Declaration: but as soon as the first words were uttered, prebendaries and singers crowded in all haste out of the choir.

  4. The Canons did not choose to appear in their stalls; but some of the choristers and prebendaries attended.

  5. In some lived the widows and families of prebendaries deceased.

  6. In this one nook of the grounds a few private individuals congregated--it is not necessary to mention them all; but the rest of the houses were mostly occupied by the prebendaries and minor canons.

  7. The clergy and boys all wore their surplices, and the dean and prebendaries retained their caps on their heads.

  8. The nineteenth approached, and the travelling carriages of the different prebendaries bowled into Westerbury, as was customary at that season, bringing their owners to their residences in the Grounds.

  9. There was another particular which those only could observe who sat near the Communion-Table, as did the prebendaries of Westminster.

  10. The regalia being thus delivered, the prebendaries and dean returned to the middle of the hall.

  11. Prebendaries of Westminster, in surplices and rich copes.

  12. In accordance with the Act of 1840, the Sub-Deanery has been suppressed, the Prebendaries have been reduced to four, and their style has been changed to that of Canons.

  13. Of the old prebendal houses some had been sold, or let; others, perhaps, were occupied by the Prebendaries of the new foundation.

  14. After 1607 the Prebendaries were empowered to elect a Sub-Dean.

  15. Item to twelve prebendaries iche of them for the corpus of his promotion viii^{li} which he shall receyve certaynly by yere and accordinge whereunto he shall paye the tenthes and fyrste xx fruytes iiii xvi li.

  16. Prebendaries are dignitaries of the Church--are they not, Mark?

  17. Among those positions of dignified ease to which fortunate clergymen may be promoted are the stalls of the canons or prebendaries in our cathedrals.

  18. Thus was he found by four prebendaries of the Manila cabildo who went to console him, and to propose to him certain matters in behalf of the governor, which we shall detail later.

  19. The prebendaries came to Manila, and petitioned in the royal Audiencia in the said archbishop's name, he offering to obey the royal decrees.

  20. Your Lordship's most humble servant, Don Diego de Herrera" The said prebendaries consoled the archbishop, whom they found repentant over his disobedience of the royal decrees.

  21. Your Lordship will not care to know more, than that the prebendaries brought a letter from a religious of St. Dominic for the archbishop.

  22. The priests of Saint Andrew's had been Canons all along, but they first became Prebendaries under Bishop Robert.

  23. Then follow grants to the different Dignitaries and Prebendaries of their several corpses, and provision is made for the payment of certain customary sums to the fabric, the Vicars, and other purposes.

  24. The Dean and Residentiaries, who had hitherto been simply certain of the Canons or Prebendaries selected for a certain purpose, were now themselves made the corporation, and the corporate style of Dean and Chapter was transferred to them.

  25. The distinction too between the property of the Chapter as a body and the property of separate Prebendaries is common to all the cathedrals of the Old Foundation.

  26. And mark again that, now that all the prebendal estates are transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, it may fairly be doubted whether there are any Prebendaries left, save the few who were appointed before those changes began.

  27. The chapter in general were strongly in favour of Richard, and three other prebendaries were imprisoned.

  28. It was both the civil and military capital of England, and its archbishops and prebendaries had great power.

  29. And since the land is so unhealthful and sickly, most of the prebendaries are generally disabled, and for the greater portion of the year the work is loaded upon only one canon and one racionero.

  30. The number of prebendaries that the church has at present is not at all sufficient; for besides the five dignidades, it has no more than four canons, two racioneros, and two medio-racioneros.

  31. Your Highness has imposed a situado of two reals on all the tributes of those islands, in order to pay one and one-half reals to the soldiers and one-half real to the prebendaries of the church.

  32. The racionero and medio racionero are prebendaries of Spanish cathedrals, ranking in the order named.

  33. Undoubtedly the younger prebendaries might have co-operated in the exclusion.

  34. The following day Franz Bluecher challenged this prebendary by letter; and two other officers, one of whom was the rejected one, challenged two other young prebendaries in the same way.

  35. It was remarked by one of the prebendaries present, that the whole number of balls did not agree with the number of votes.

  36. General Bluecher, who had never thought of inviting them, was naturally very irate at seeing the three prebendaries enter.

  37. But the three prebendaries were also wounded in their most sensitive feelings by a malicious trick which was played them.

  38. At Salisbury on that day the boy-bishop and his boy-prebendaries went in procession to the altar of the Holy Trinity, taking precedence of the dean and resident canons.

  39. But among the Prebendaries of Lincoln there is also a William Horsey, Prebendary of Scamelsby,[395] who may very possibly have been identical with our Precentor.

  40. The latter was a cathedral devotion, where it was a rule that the dean and prebendaries as a body should say the whole Psalter every day to the glory of God.

  41. One of the statutory duties of the prebendaries is very little known, and is so curious and interesting as to deserve mention here, even though it requires a few words of preface to make the spirit of it quite intelligible.

  42. There were Prebendal Schools under the oversight of the prebendaries themselves, and others "which are maintained by local managers for the instruction of their parishioners in faith and letters.

  43. See the case of two of the Prebendaries of Lincoln, named at p.

  44. For the most part the prebendaries were supposed to reside upon their prebends, to maintain Divine service, and a school, and hospitality there.

  45. There are prebendaries and there are squires.

  46. Arrangements were made at the same time with the rest of the prebendaries respecting the several proportions of the tithe belonging to them.

  47. So sure of their position were they that the prebendaries actually proceeded to lease out their property.

  48. About this time the Dean and Prebendaries successfully resisted an attempt of the Archbishop of Canterbury to hold a visitation within the "peculiar"--the church's jurisdiction within itself.

  49. After the Civil War the Prebendaries found that they had suffered considerable losses by the acts of their predecessors; so it was determined by Thomas Wren, LL.

  50. Although the case was decided against Sir Walter Leveson, the prebendaries reaped little or no benefit; for Sir Walter died immediately after, leaving his heir a minor, and a ward of the King.

  51. Oliver states that in his time (1836) there remained some "houses and lands now belonging to the prebendaries and Sacrist, which are leased out for lives.

  52. The wardship of young Leveson lasted 16 years, and when he came of age the prebendaries were glad to come to a composition with him.

  53. Manningham, on becoming Dean, convened a Chapter at Oxford which was attended by all the Prebendaries and the Sacrist.

  54. In Protestant times the daily services were performed by the sacrist and the readers, the prebendaries officiating on Sundays in rotation, according to a set cycle.

  55. Hatherton, to file a bill in Chancery against Robert Leveson for a discovery of the lands he held which anciently belonged to the prebendaries of Wolverhampton, and that he might show by what title he held them.

  56. Wulfruna's foundation consisted of a dean, eight prebendaries or canons, and a sacrist.

  57. Wainscoting and pews were then erected, and we read of a furnishing of choir seats, and of stalls for the dean and prebendaries under the organ.

  58. Under his direction, too, new stalls for the dean and prebendaries were erected under the organ, and new stalls for the choir constructed.

  59. The residences of the prebendaries were mostly round the Minster Close.

  60. These possessions, divided into prebends, provided livings for the thirty-six prebendaries or canons, who collectively formed the Chapter.

  61. The wives and daughters of the old prebendaries see well to that.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prebendaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.