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The majority of benefices in these deaneries were unlikely to attract the covetous attention of pluralist clergy seeking to acquire rich livings.
After a papal bull of 1558 all such former monks were ordered to return to their monasteries, under threat of losing church benefices.
Refractories who refused it were to be ineligible for benefices under the new order.
The chancery received petitions, examined the qualifications of candidates for benefices, and had official custody of the records of the curia.
It is also possible that, as later in the middle ages, the numbers of deacons and priests ordained outstripped the availability of benefices.
Those who issue dimissory letters contrary to the form of this decree, shall be ipso jure suspended from their office and benefices for one year.
Many supporters from leading Frankish families followed him to Italy and were for a long time cut off from their properties and benefices in the countries of origin.
All chapters and other benefices without cure of souls were now abolished.
His pluralist career was eventually brought to an end in 1560 when he was deprived of all his benefices for failing to take the oath of supremacy.
Such churches and chapels shall be considered as presentative benefices.
Some, and perhaps the majority, remained in their benefices without reordination.
He was appointed prebendary of Wilton Abbey in 1535 and received two adjacent benefices.
In 1245 he enjoyed a dispensation enabling him to hold three ecclesiastical benefices.
In 1533, Leland received papal dispensation for four benefices, on condition that he became subdeacon within two years and priest within seven.
There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.
The Feoffees for Impropriations, an organisation that bought benefices and advowsons so that Puritans could be appointed to them, was dissolved.
Bishoprics, canonries, and parochial benefices passed from one to another member of the same family, and frequently from father to son.
During Henry's reign, the Papacy developed a strong, central bureaucracy, supported by benefices granted to absent churchmen working in Rome.
He endowed Hagano with monasteries that were already the benefices of other barons, alienating them.
By the Concordat of Vienna he secured the recognition of papal rights over bishoprics and benefices.
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An act of 1836 prohibited the holding of benefices in commendam in England.
While still only a deacon Becket received many ecclesiastical benefices, including the archdeaconry of Canterbury.
They gave him a right to all the annates and tithes of benefices which had formerly been paid to the court of Rome.
It was intended to check the tendency to secularize benefices.
He made no display of humility on the subject, but in his heart he felt rather ashamed that his conduct had shown laches which others who did not get benefices were free from.
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