benefice

Object

• clergyman: Several series in the archive provide information on the careers of beneficed clergymen.
• clergy: At that time there was no retirement age for beneficed clergy.

Converse of object

• unite: These two parishes have recently become a united benefice.
• hold: They were to hold the benefice in common, officiating in alternate months.
• become: In 1929 Wasdale Head became a joint benefice together with Nether Wasdale.
• exchange: The largest group of acta arose from the practice, widespread by the end of the fourteenth century, of exchanging benefices.
• form: Voicing the answers to the questionnaire at the end was invaluable especially as we are a newly formed benefice.

Adjective modifier

• rectorial: In a vacancy in a rectorial benefice the Chairman shall be a Vicar of that benefice designated by the Area Dean.
• ecclesiastical: Glebe land is usually regarded as land belonging to either a parish church or an ecclesiastical benefice of some kind.
• vacant: The ranks of the clergy had been so much depleted that was impossible to find incumbents for the vacant benefices.
• joint: In 1929 Wasdale Head became a joint benefice together with Nether Wasdale.
• separate: Between 1291 and 1535 it became a separate benefice.
• small: We saw earlier that while the parish system worked within small benefices and communities, it was experiencing more problems in Welsh speaking areas.

Modifies a noun

• name: Patronage The patron of each benefice is listed under the benefice name.
• model: In this instance the stipendiary clergy would be based in Monmouth using the rectorial benefice model.

Noun used with modifier

parish: St Mary the Virgin Exbourne Devon Exbourne is a village of 400 people in mid-Devon and is part of a four parish benefice.

Preposition: in

county: It is considered one of the most valuable benefices in the county.

Preposition: of

parish: St Mary the Virgin Radwinter Essex A benefice of four parishes in Essex, partly farming country, partly commuter belt.