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"It was a verra speerited thing to do, at ony rate, to gie up your precentorship," said Fergusson, whose wife kept the wash-house on the Isle, and who lived on his wife's makings.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

"It will cost me the precentorship," answered he slowly, "but I hadn't given a thought to that."

From Hetty Wesley by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I am very anxious about the precentorship: the archdeacon thinks it must go with the wardenship; I think not, and, that, having it, I cannot be ousted.

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony

Since his appointment to his precentorship, he has published, with all possible additions of vellum, typography, and gilding, a collection of our ancient church music, with some correct dissertations on Purcell, Crotch, and Nares.

From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony

When Ridley became bishop of London, he made Grindal one of his chaplains and gave him the precentorship of St Paul’s.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various