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  • Advowson (/ədˈvaʊzən/) or patronage is the right in English law of a patron (avowee) to present to the diocesan bishop (or in some cases the ordinary if...
    22 KB (2,971 words) - 20:30, 2 August 2024
  • major-domo, semidome dōnum dōn- gift condonation, condone, donation, donative, donator, donatory, pardon, pardonable dorsum dors- back disendorse, dorsal...
    317 KB (336 words) - 21:54, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Church of St Mary Magdalene, Whitgift
    is thought that both churches shared the same dedication. The right of advowson was held by the local lords of the manor, however on the execution of Thomas...
    14 KB (1,584 words) - 19:00, 26 May 2024
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    Trent, Staffordshire, England. It is in the diocese of Lichfield and the advowson is vested in the bishop. In 1979 the church was registered as a Grade I...
    5 KB (556 words) - 18:19, 17 February 2022
  • temporalities or his nominee, the patron and his successors in title, held the advowson (right to nominate a candidate for the post subject to the approval of...
    24 KB (3,032 words) - 15:34, 20 July 2024
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    church, etc., and demesne of Frithelstock Priory, the manor, rectory and advowson of the vicarage of Frithelstock and the manor of Broadwoodwidger, all late...
    8 KB (1,035 words) - 15:12, 8 September 2021
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    Reigate Priory include land in Burstow and Westhumble, as well as the advowson of St Michael's Church, Mickleham. At the time of its dissolution in 1536...
    15 KB (1,508 words) - 03:50, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Bartholomew's Church, Tong
    church and chantry on the initiative of Isabel Lingen, who acquired the advowson from Shrewsbury Abbey and additional endowments through royal support....
    151 KB (18,005 words) - 20:40, 15 May 2024
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    the Sifrewast family granted their advowson to the convent of St Mary's de Pré Leicester. As a consequence the advowson for the parish of Chesham Bury became...
    90 KB (10,817 words) - 06:05, 27 July 2024
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    preceptory at Ribston was founded in 1217, when Robert de Ros donated the land and advowson of Ribston to the Knights Templar. When the Knights Templar...
    2 KB (245 words) - 17:29, 10 November 2021
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    The College's relative poverty was relieved in 1401 when it acquired the advowson and rectory of Hinton through the efforts of Bishop John Fordham and John...
    40 KB (4,247 words) - 22:21, 1 August 2024
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    church in 1128–33. In the second half of the 12th century control of the advowson of St Magnus was disputed between the Abbot of Westminster and the Prior...
    160 KB (22,434 words) - 12:26, 8 July 2024
  • estate he sold in 1951 (keeping some land whose rents he donated to Cardington church, whose advowson he also retained) then on a 300-acre (1.2 km2) farm at...
    8 KB (897 words) - 19:05, 2 September 2023
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    Ferrers donated "70 acres of waste land at Groby" and the advowson of Syston Church, both in Leicestershire. Thomas de Ferrers donated the advowson of Bunny...
    5 KB (531 words) - 17:17, 6 April 2024
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    building. From the 12th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries the advowson of the church was held by Godstow nunnery. The fabric of the building has...
    3 KB (187 words) - 10:23, 23 April 2022
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    park. In 1537 the manor of Knole, and five other manors and a number of advowsons and chantries largely forming the archbishop's bailiwick of Otford, were...
    52 KB (7,260 words) - 23:10, 7 March 2024
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    1335 John Grandisson, (1327–69), Bishop of Exeter, bought the manor and advowson from Rouen, and two years later converted the church into a collegiate...
    33 KB (3,773 words) - 17:36, 20 July 2024
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    free forest and contents, fees and forfeitures, custom dues, and church advowsons, with the ways and courts of justice, the chamber, sheriffdom, and the...
    91 KB (10,796 words) - 15:57, 3 August 2024
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    consisted of "spiritual" income arising where the religious house held the advowson (right to appoint) a benefice with the legal obligation to maintain the...
    95 KB (13,164 words) - 20:34, 31 July 2024
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    to the office. Advowson: A lord might have a right to make advowsons, be they collative (collatie), presentative (gezag) or donative (agrement) when...
    25 KB (3,456 words) - 02:04, 14 December 2023
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