Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Income; revenue.
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They are wont to give them, quoth the curate, some simple benefice, or some parsonage, or to make them clerks or sextons, or vergers of some church, whose living amounts to a good penny-rent, beside the profit of the altar, which is ofttimes as much more.
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