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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...
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    episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Fulham (currently Jonathan Baker). The advowson of St Andrew's was anciently held by the family of FitzWalter to which...
    8 KB (849 words) - 21:51, 14 November 2023
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    1179 – Henry introduced the writ of darrein presentment, to provide a speedy judgement in cases of advowson dispute. The Third Lateran Council of 1179...
    4 KB (477 words) - 16:06, 25 January 2023
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    Botreaux, 3rd Baron Botreaux.) In 1187 a William de Botreaux gave the advowsons of the churches in his manors of Molland and Knowstone in Devon, and of...
    7 KB (925 words) - 15:10, 2 February 2023
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    manor of Souldern, had given the advowson of the parish to the Benedictine Eynsham Abbey. The abbot retained the advowson until the abbey was suppressed...
    9 KB (833 words) - 17:50, 23 May 2023
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    one acre in the parish of Drannack, near Gwinear in Cornwall, with the advowson of the Church of St Winneri, authorised by the overlord Gilbert de Clare...
    11 KB (1,372 words) - 15:49, 18 July 2024
  • concerned who held the adowson of Itteringham, and therefore had the right to present a rector there. The trial was between Sir Edward, and Maud, the widow of...
    35 KB (5,122 words) - 18:17, 2 June 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
  • Thumbnail for St Martin's Church, Bladon
    grant of the Manor of Bladon, with the advowson of the Rectory in 1269[citation needed]. A print hung in the present St Martin's shows the old church before...
    9 KB (978 words) - 06:37, 7 February 2024
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    cheese!" The village is twinned with Bois-Bernard in northern France. The advowson of the church, including 12 acres (49,000 m²) of glebe land – including...
    11 KB (1,450 words) - 16:14, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Chad's Church, Poulton-le-Fylde
    dissolution of the monasteries and from the 16th to the 20th century, the advowson (the right to appoint a parish priest)A belonged to the Hesketh/Fleetwood...
    28 KB (2,874 words) - 15:54, 29 July 2024
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    privileges to London's Hospital of St Giles. He also gave the church and advowson to the Abbey of St Valeri, which stood at the mouth of the Somme in Picardy...
    51 KB (6,186 words) - 19:31, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Peter's Church, Barnstaple
    the present lead-covered broach spire dates to the late 17th-century and is said by Hoskins to be the best of its kind in England. The advowson and rectory...
    11 KB (1,356 words) - 08:05, 11 April 2022
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    Kavanagh. His father was Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord of the Manor of Advowson of Callan (1438–1487). His father's family was the Polestown cadet branch...
    26 KB (1,873 words) - 20:08, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for All Saints' Church, Kings Langley
    record of a parish church at Kings Langley was in 1215, when a grant of advowson (the right of a patron to appoint a parish priest) was confirmed by King...
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    until its dissolution in 1878. In the early 1500s, Saint Wilfrid's was an advowson of the Benedictine Saint Mary's Abbey, York. In 1585, the parish could...
    14 KB (1,384 words) - 17:48, 21 April 2024
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    his wife had confirmed her own title to the Advowson because she herself had exercised her right of presenting a new priest, which appointment had been accepted...
    30 KB (4,790 words) - 14:57, 17 January 2024
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    Feoffees for Impropriations, an organisation that bought benefices and advowsons so that Puritans could be appointed to them, was dissolved. Laud prosecuted...
    118 KB (14,442 words) - 09:15, 28 July 2024
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    Dominican friars in the 1550s, or by the post-Reformation patron of the advowson, Lord Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (1547–51). From this gatehouse to...
    30 KB (3,137 words) - 10:50, 31 July 2024
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    St. Mary, York, which presented to the living in 1536, but is now a rectory in the patronage of the earl of Lonsdale, the advowson being purchased of John...
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