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Posted By: wwh prebendary - 04/20/03 01:40 PM
From Harvard Classics, life of John Donne
"Most of his old age was spent with his friend,
George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, and with his daughter
Anne, the wife of William Hawkins, a prebendary of Winchester."

prebend
n.
5ME prebende < MFr < ML(Ec) prebenda < LL praebenda, state support to a private person < neut. pl. ger. of L praebere, to grant < prae3, before + habere, to have6
1 the part of the revenues of a cathedral or collegiate church paid as a clergyman‘s salary
2 the property or tax that yields such revenue
3 PREBENDARY
pre[ben[dal 7prc ben4d!l, pri38
adj.
prebendary
n.,
pl. 3dar#ies 5ME prebendarie < ML praebendarius6
1 a person receiving a prebend
2 Ch. of England an honorary canon with only the title of a prebend


Posted By: of troy Re: prebendary - 04/21/03 12:29 PM
so a glebe could be a prebendary (meaning 2)?

seehttp://www.bartleby.com/61/70/G0147000.html

there is a Glebe avenue in the bronx, it marks the old line of St Peter's (anglican) church's glebe.
St Peters has an alter that was given to the church by Queen Anne. the current church building is new, but it is retains the old alter.

Posted By: wwh Re: prebendary - 04/21/03 02:06 PM
Dear of Troy: I used to drive over a Glebe Road in (I think) Fairfax, VA. I wondered where
the name came from.
glebe
n.
5ME < L gleba, clod, lump of earth (in ML(Ec), glebe), akin to globus: see GLOBE6
1 a piece of church land forming part or all of a benefice
2 [Archaic] soil; earth; esp., a piece of cultivated land


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