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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… An hospital for six widows of beneficed clergymen or curates of two years' standing, was founded in 1725, by the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… until the Dissolution. Thereafter the appointment of curates and presentation of vicars descended with Catton …
A History of the County of Oxford
… pluralist rectors commonly served the parish through curates from neighbouring parishes. 14 Curates' stipends were small, usually c. £10 in the 18th …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the 13th century, 86 1381, 87 1547, 88 1559, and 1562. 89 Curates were common from the 1680s. 90 In 1807 the vestry … was the first for a long time who was not a pluralist; his curates evangelized the rapidly increasing population, … and held with St. Francis of Assisi (q.v.). 40 Four asst. curates by 1896, three by 1926, two by 1947, one by 1970; …