History of the Cathedral Church of Wells: As Illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old FoundationMacmillan, 1870 - 200 pages |
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... Dean and Chapter or a special body of clergy of some kind , or a church where there are prayers every day , or a church where the prayers are chanted and not merely read . Nay , some people seem to think that a cathedral is not a church ...
... Dean and Chapter or a special body of clergy of some kind , or a church where there are prayers every day , or a church where the prayers are chanted and not merely read . Nay , some people seem to think that a cathedral is not a church ...
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... Dean and Chapter . The independence of the Dean and Chapter , when it is carried so far as it now is , is undoubtedly an abuse and an anomaly , and how it came about I shall show as I go on . You may also ask how it happened that the ...
... Dean and Chapter . The independence of the Dean and Chapter , when it is carried so far as it now is , is undoubtedly an abuse and an anomaly , and how it came about I shall show as I go on . You may also ask how it happened that the ...
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... Dean and Prebendaries ; Manchester had a Warden and Fellows . In our present Queen's reign Bishopricks were founded in these two churches ; from being only collegiate , they became cathedral , and the collegiate bodies became the ...
... Dean and Prebendaries ; Manchester had a Warden and Fellows . In our present Queen's reign Bishopricks were founded in these two churches ; from being only collegiate , they became cathedral , and the collegiate bodies became the ...
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... Dean still lives in the Deanery ; the Canons , Vicars , and other officers still live very largely in the houses in which they were meant to live . But this is because at Wells there always were secular priests , each man living in his ...
... Dean still lives in the Deanery ; the Canons , Vicars , and other officers still live very largely in the houses in which they were meant to live . But this is because at Wells there always were secular priests , each man living in his ...
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... Dean , the Precentor , the Chancellor , the Treasurer , and the Sub - Dean , all which offices still remain , to which we may add the Provostship , which still went on , and the Subchanter- ship ; these two no longer exist . Of these ...
... Dean , the Precentor , the Chancellor , the Treasurer , and the Sub - Dean , all which offices still remain , to which we may add the Provostship , which still went on , and the Subchanter- ship ; these two no longer exist . Of these ...
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