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- noun Plural form of
advowson .
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Examples
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Advowsons thus severed from ownership of land are termed advowsons in gross.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Furthermore, she received all the advowsons with explicit authority to present her clients to all the livings now vacant.
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She collected the proceeds from her workers at her mills and presented her clients to the various rectories and advowsons under her control.
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M.A., made obeisance unperceived, mindful of lords deputies whose hands benignant had held of yore rich advowsons.
Ulysses 2003
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King, which, depriving the Cardinal of all his advowsons, distributed them to the bishops of the dioceses in which those advowsons were situated.
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About the same date is a grant by Sir Henry, 'for the health of his soul,' of the Manor of Canonteign, the advowsons of four churches, and 'other possessions to the Prior and Convent of the Blessed Mary of Martin ... by ordinance of Walter, Bishop of Exeter.'
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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Abbots held the advowsons of, or pensions from, the churches of Bardney,
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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As at present constituted, the Board, owing to the abolition of celibacy as a condition of Fellowship and the extinction of the advowsons belonging to the College by the Irish Church Act of 1869, has become a body of men, the average age of whom is over seventy and the average time since the graduation of whom is a little more than half a century.
Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell
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This was settled in 1241 by the Priory renouncing its claim in consideration of receiving a share of the income but in 1248 an exchange was effected, the Priory giving the advowsons of Ryton and
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse
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Church of the same, and all the manors, parsonages, messuages, lands, tithes, advowsons, and hereditaments, late part of the possession of the said Hospital with certain specified exceptions which the charity had to lose, and no longer form part of its history.
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