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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A benefice consisting of six parishes can commonly have five patrons who all have views on their incumbent.
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As they progressed in the king's confidence and service, their benefices became more numerous and more lucrative.
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He also promised to promote her son, then studying at Cambridge, to appropriate benefices and to make other benefactions.
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In March 1403 his numerous benefices were reckoned to be worth over £800 a year.
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Lothar remained grateful to him, praising his knowledge and, as pope, conferring benefices on him.
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Some were imposed by monasteries on benefices of which they were the patrons, sometimes as a half way stage to appropriation.
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Then dreams he of another benefice .