Then we went to Embleton to see one of the curious fortified rectories of the North--fortified against the Scots.
The rectories and vicarages scattered over the country have passed through the same transformation as the manor-houses, which they much resembled.
You have all manner of fat rectories to get and possible bishoprics to enjoy.
He held a prebendal stall in the diocese, one of the best residences in the close, and the two large rectories of Crabtree Canonicorum and Stogpingum.
The Presbyterian ministers who occupied the rectories and vicarages of the Church of England and their well-to-do flocks in both town and country were, with but few exceptions, all for King Charles and a restored monarchy.
He thought the rectories were vested rights, and should not be disturbed, unless by due process of law, if, as was pretended, they were improperly obtained.
So great was the haste in which this act was done, that only 44 out of the 57 patents were signed by the retiring Governor; so that only that number of rectories were actually endowed.
What will be the effect of all this I cannot say, but I have thought from the beginning that either the Rectories must be abolished, and a suitable disposition made of the Reserves, or a change of Government will ensue.
I could not be a rebel; my conscience and religion forbid it; and, on the other hand, I could not fight for the Rectories and Church domination.
Royal Commission, Sir John Colborne, the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, had authority to create and endowrectories without further instructions.
You have all manner of fat rectoriesto get, and possible bishoprics to enjoy.
He held a prebendal stall in the diocese; one of the best residences in the close; and the two large rectories of Crabtree Canonicorum, and Stogpingum.
It was this which made a rectory so much like a small monastery in its constitution, that rectories were often called minsters, and monasteries often merged into rectories.
In short, during the time to which we refer, rectories were looked upon and treated as lay fees.
The Normans founded many new monasteries in England, and not only endowed them with lands and manors, but introduced the custom of endowing them also with the rectories of which they were patrons.
But this decision was not given until 1856, when the whole matter of the reserves had been finally adjusted, and the validity of the creation of the rectories was no longer a burning question in Upper Canada.
Rich country rectories must be looked at askance until they can be taken as a secondary reward, the higher prizes having been missed.
He knew of Rectoriesand Vicarages in which the Squire of the parish was never seen, with the converse disadvantage that the rector or vicar was never seen in the Squire's house.
Abbot John built the guest-house, and devoted the revenues of three rectories to the improvement of the quality of the ale, and for the providing of better entertainment for guests.
He ordered that the revenues of certain rectories should be used for providing ornaments, for a fabric fund, and for the infirmary.
See The Rectories of Upper Canada, being a Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons, etc.
The provision for the establishment of parsonages and rectories is a mere matter of detail, which cannot be allowed to override the larger intention so plainly evidenced by other sections.
Somehow a bush hut in the Back Blocks does not suggest such isolation for a cultivated mind and a spirit awake to the movements of the world as these stately rectories and vicarages in the small villages of England.
It has been said that senior wranglers are hidden in country rectories and are never heard of again.
This was the last of the rectoriescreated under the Act of 1818.
It will be observed too, that the rectory is not mentioned in the extract from the grant which I have given, neither do I find it anywhere else alluded to, specially, as is the case with certain other rectories given by this patent.
The British treated them with great severity, sacking and destroying their rectories and estate houses, and selling everything of theirs they could lay hands on.
The feeling against that church culminated in 1836, when Sir John Colborne, then lieutenant-governor, established forty-four rectories in accordance with a suggestion made by Lord Goderich some years previously.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rectories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
