prebends

He hath long ago given over all his benefices for God's sake, namely prebends at Utrecht and Aix, and also his patrimony, which was no small one, having retained but a small part of the same to provide him a slender sustenance.

The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers. 1379?-1471 1905

From 1495 to 1498 he is also recorded as a canon at the collegiate church of St Donatian at Bruges, one of the prebends awarded to singers of the papal chapel.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

In 1558 he was granted a canonry in the collegiate church of Tournai and at the time of his death he held numerous prebends.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

Being persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors.

Les Miserables 2008

Evidently news of such a tragedy eventually reached the mainland, as, "it is said, after several years Pope Gregory IX made a church of the new Innocents on the same island and instituted twelve prebends; and in that church the still-whole bodies of the infants, which the sea had thrown there, were shown to pilgrims."

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Many prebends and bishoprics were preserved for them; and even at this day the Turkish sultan makes canons and bishops, without the pope having ever made an imam or a mollah.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Whilst mitres, prebends, to their eyes are spread.

Fugitive Pieces 2007

[624] As some dignities shall be hereditary, so some again by election, or by gift (besides free officers, pensions, annuities,) like our bishoprics, prebends, the

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

There was not one of the prebends who had a better house.

He Knew He Was Right 2004

There was also there another clergyman from Barchester, one Mr Champion, one of the prebends of the cathedral.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004