| 单词 | discharged vicarage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdischarged vicarage 2. Anglican Church. Of a benefice: that is exempt from the payment of first fruits and tenths, or first fruits only (see first fruit n. 3, tenth n. 1b). Chiefly in discharged living, discharged vicarage. Now historical and rare. Cf. discharge v. 3.Such benefices originally became exempt following valuation at under £10 in Henry VIII’s Valor Ecclesiasticus (1534). This was succeeded by various measures to exempt poor benefices from taxation from the Tudor period to the time of Queen Anne. ΚΠ 1739 F. Blomefield Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk I. (title page) An Account of the Ancient and Present State of all the Rectories, Vicarages, Donatives, and Impropriations..with their several Valuations in the King's Book, whether discharged or not. 1769 New & Compl. Hist. Essex II. 141 It is a discharged living. 1828 W. Cathrall Hist. North Wales II. 46 Llanbadrig..is in the Hundred of Talybolion, a discharged Vicarage. 1861 Sussex Archaeol. Coll. 13 256 It is a discharged benefice, its clear yearly value according to the Liber Valorum being £47 0s. 8d. 1891 Kelly's P.O. Direct. Bucks 364/2 Datchet, the living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £306. 2005 N. R. Jones Architect. of Eng., Scot., & Wales 78 The living at Huntley was unusual in that it was independent, a so-called discharged living. < as lemmas |
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