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Here they were blessed and sanctified, and then the Dean of Westminster and his prebendaries in their copes of state carried the regalia through the cloister to the royal robing room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Church House was packed with prebendaries, minor canons, curates, newshawks.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was another particular which those only could observe who sat near the Communion-Table, as did the prebendaries of Westminster.

From Coronation Anecdotes by Gossip, Giles

The prebendaries, who, on account of their spiritual order, could not accept the challenge, informed the King immediately of the occurrence.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

Besides that, Mrs. Chantry counted a near relative in one of the cathedral prebendaries at Worcester—and for pride and exclusiveness some of those old prebendaries capped the world.

From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry