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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Apart from infrequent exceptions such as these, chantry priests were indistinguishable from parish chaplains.
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But all the endowments which funded chantries were confiscated at Easter 1548 and vested in the Crown.
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Even more important is the testimony of the fifteenth-century Warwick chantry priest John Rous, who died in 1491.
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He is remembered also for his work on the manor house at Clyst, where he endowed a chantry chapel.
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Hundreds of chantries and lay fraternities were established with this as their major function.
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It is believed that it was built as a chantry chapel in memory of Robert de Tattershall who died in 1121.
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On stylistic grounds Vertue may also be credited with the design of Lupton's chantry in Eton College chapel.
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Similarly, comparatively few chantries were re-established by pious benefactors, and endowments for masses failed to recover to their pre-Reformation level.