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impropriations
impropriations. Impropriation was the assignment of a benefice to a lay proprietor, as distinct from appropriation to a monastery. In either case medieval benefices were served by poorly paid vicars or curates, while the rectors, who received the income, were often licensed, privileged absentee pluralists, yet valuable members of the community as royal civil servants. When the monasteries were dissolved, many appropriated monastic benefices were impropriated, causing Matthew Parker, for instance, great difficulty as primate in curbing Elizabeth's rapacious courtiers. Lay impropriators, as Tenison noted (1713), were known for seeking cheap and often indifferent curates. An effective Whig 1830s reform insisted on incumbents being resident.
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JOHN CANNON. "impropriations." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "impropriations." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-impropriations.html JOHN CANNON. "impropriations." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-impropriations.html |
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impropriations
impropriations, ecclesiastical benefices that were annexed either to a corporation (typically a monastery or abbey) or to a layman as private property. Income from the benefice went to the holder of the impropriation, or impropriator, as did the responsibility for paying a curate to serve the cure. Impropriations became an important source of wealth, and were bought and sold as pieces of property, particularly in the years after the Reformation, when many of the monastic impropriations fell into royal and thence into lay hands.
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"impropriations." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "impropriations." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-impropriations.html "impropriations." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-impropriations.html |
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impropriations
impropriations Impropriation was the assignment of a benefice to a lay proprietor, as distinct from appropriation to a monastery. When the monasteries were dissolved, many appropriated monastic benefices were impropriated, causing Matthew Parker, for instance, great difficulty as primate in curbing Elizabeth's rapacious courtiers. Lay impropriators, as Tenison noted (1713), were known for seeking cheap and often indifferent curates. An effective Whig 1830s reform insisted on incumbents being resident.
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JOHN CANNON. "impropriations." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "impropriations." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-impropriations.html JOHN CANNON. "impropriations." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-impropriations.html |
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impropriation
impropriation. The assignment or annexation of an ecclesiastical benefice, for the use of its property, to a lay proprietor or corporation. At the Dissolution many benefices which had been appropriated to monasteries, were impropriated by ‘lay rectors’; where the monastery was exempt from the requirement to endow a vicar, the lay rector inherited this privilege and appointed a perpetual curate to discharge the spiritual duties of their benefices.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "impropriation." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "impropriation." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-impropriation.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "impropriation." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-impropriation.html |
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