- A
precentor is a
person who
helps facilitate worship. The
details vary
depending on the religion, denomination, and era in question. The
Latin derivation...
-
services secured for him
canonries at
Hereford and St Paul's, and the
precentorship of
Exeter Cathedral. In 1331 he
retired to
country living (in Wraysbury...
-
Bishop of London, he made
Grindal one of his
chaplains and gave him the
precentorship of St Paul's Cathedral.
Grindal was soon
promoted to be one of King...
- 1373, he had
exchanged the
latter position with
William Boyl for the
Precentorship of Moray. He had
become Dean of
Aberdeen by 1388. It is
possible he...
- he held
until his
death in 1524. His
clerical benefices included the
Precentorship of York Minster. His
ordination was
connected with his
retirement from...
- Cathedral. With
further preferment,
Lonsdale p****ed in 1828 to the
precentorship of the
diocese of Lichfield,
later exchanged for a
prebend at St Paul's...
-
prebend in Moray. In 1405
Lauder unsuccessfully sued in the
Curia for the
Precentorship of Glasgow. "Willielmus de Lawadir,
Archdeacon of Lothian, accompanied...
-
admitted treasurer of the
church of Lichfield, with
which he held the
precentorship.
Blythe was one of the
divines who
preached at
Cambridge against Hugh...
-
subordinate officers as
minor canons, gospellers, epistolers, etc. The
precentorship in
these churches of the "New Foundation", as they are called, is not...
- Inchaffray, he held a
canonry in the
diocese of Dunblane, that is, the
precentorship of
Dunblane Cathedral (also in Strathearn).
After the
death of Nicholas...
