These unbeneficed clergy, it was said, “when depressed by the weight of old age, or labouring under weak health .
It says "unbeneficed clergyman and deceased nobleman," and who can that be but Uncle Rotherwood and Mr. Aylmer.
Beneficed clergymen had a freehold in their benefices, and therefore a legal claim for provision in old age, not so with unbeneficed men; but we meet with a few examples of kindly care for them.
It is, of course, possible to come to any conclusion as to the proportion of the beneficed to the unbeneficed clergy only by very round numbers.
The average number of institutions to benefices annually during the same period was only twenty-one, so that these figures taken by themselves seem to show that the proportion of beneficed to unbeneficed clergy was about one to four.
In the present day these chapters are usually attended not only by the incumbents but also by all the licensed unbeneficed clergy of the deanery.
But, equally with the unbeneficed clergy of the diocese, it is their duty to attend the bishop's triennial visitations; and their absence without sufficient cause renders them liable to ecclesiastical censure and punishment.
An unbeneficed clergyman has no recognised legal status unless he obtains a licence from the bishop of the diocese, for which the fee is 10s.
With the exception that his withdrawal of a licence from a curate is subject to an appeal to the archbishop, he possesses absolute control over the unbeneficed clergy in his diocese, having the right to inhibit them from officiating within it.
The other parochial clergy will be referred to as unbeneficed clergy or curates.
The legal position of the unbeneficed clergy as regards status and property is so different from that of incumbents that it will be convenient to treat of them separately.
Assistant unbeneficed clergy are contemplated by the canons, in which they are styled curates; and with the licence of the bishop any incumbent may employ one or more curates to assist him in serving the parish.
But in modern practice this term, when used by itself, is generally applied to the unbeneficed or assistant curates in a parish.
Some incumbents deserted their parishes to take stipendiary work in towns or secular employments, and unbeneficed clergy demanded higher stipends.
For some years clerical taxation by the crown was carried on with the good-will of the papacy; it was not oppressive for unbeneficed clergy and incomes below ten marks were exempt, and in theory the clergy were celibate.
And there were not wanting in real life unbeneficed clergymen who, in point of abilities and erudition, might have held their own with the learned prelates of the period.
He dismissed his curates when they married, having decided views on the celibacy of the unbeneficed clergy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unbeneficed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
