canonries

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of canonry.
  canonry

  noun

  the office or benefice of a canon.

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canonries

Their relics were deposited at Granfel, and were exposed in a rich shrine till the change of religion, since which time the canonries, into which this monastery was converted, are removed to Telsberg, or Delmont.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

I The King Countersigned by Juan Ruiz de Contreras; and signed by the council Page 185 1 The prebends of Spanish cathedrals directly above the prebends of canonries; or, the incumbents thereof.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

By the act of 1840 reforming cathedral chapters the number of canonries was greatly reduced, while some were made applicable to the endowment of archdeaconries and professorships.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

The deaneries are in the gift of the crown, canonries and prebends sometimes in that of the crown, sometimes in that of the bishops.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various

Besides direct taxation, wealth raised from the appropriation of rich canonries was drained away from church and state into the Papal treasury.

From Old St. Paul's Cathedral by William Benham

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