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Advowson   Listen
Advowson

noun
1.
The right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice.





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... is situated upon rising ground, on the east side of Puddle-Dock Hill, in the ward of Castle Baynard. The advowson of this church was anciently in the noble family of Fitzwalter, to which it probably came by virtue of the office of Constable of the Castle of London (that is, Baynard's Castle). That it is not of a modern foundation is evident by its having had Robert Marsh for its rector, ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury


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