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Averse to progress, these prebendal sloths do nothing whatever to improve their cathedrals, by alterations and embellishments in accordance with the feelings and wants of the age.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

The cathedral plate adorned the prebendal sideboards and dinner-tables.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

This College was erected shortly after the middle of the fifteenth century: on the site there had been Salton House, the prebendal residence of the Prior of Hexham, who was canon of Salton.

From Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century by Benson, Edwin

It has all the air of a prebendal residence, but if it was ever connected with the church, that connection has long ceased.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric by Hallett, Cecil Walter Charles

Casaubon, though a layman, was collated to a prebendal stall in Canterbury, and a pension of �300 a year was assigned him from the exchequer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various