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In 1992 he was appointed as Minor Canon, Chaplain and Sacrist at Westminster Abbey before moving to his present post as Chaplain and Research Assistant to the Bishop of the Church of England Diocese in Europe in 1998.
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In 1992 he was appointed as Minor Canon, Chaplain and Sacrist at Westminster Abbey before moving to his present post as Chaplain and Research Assistant to the Bishop of the Church of England Diocese in Europe in 1998.
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= Walter = (1202-1213), previously Sacrist of the monastery.
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Taurus, the Sacrist, also managed to get away, carrying with him some of their treasures, and among them a text of the Gospels, which he conveyed to his superior at
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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Mr. Bentham, the revenues of the two were united, and the communities associated by Bishop Northwold about A.D. 1240, by whose ordinance the united hospital was to consist of thirteen chaplains and brethren, who were to have a common refectory and dormitory, and to wear an uniform habit, and be under the immediate government of the Sacrist of Ely.
Ely Cathedral Anonymous
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Bishop Grandisson obtained a licence to establish here 'a monastery or collegiate church for a fixed number of secular canons ... governed mainly by a Warden, a Minister, and Sacrist, and a Chanter or
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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The official who presided over the ceremony was commonly the Sacrist, but the duty was sometimes performed by the Chancellor of the Cathedral, the Sub-prior, or a monk qualified as a notary public.
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Ralph de Wylington and Olympias, his wife, the architect of the work being Elias or Helias the Sacrist, a monk of the Gloucester monastery.
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ROBERT RICHARDSON studied in St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, where he became, in 1520, a Canon Regular and Sacrist of the Holy Cross; and in 1530, a Canon of the Abbey of Cambuskenneth.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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To Mr E.J. Burrow I owe special thanks for permission to use blocks made from his black-and-white drawings, one of which has not been published before; to the Very Rev. the Dean for much useful information and assistance; and lastly to the Sub-Sacrist, Mr T.W. G. Cooke, whose help has been at all times ungrudging and invaluable.
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