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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Cate Gunn wrote: > > This is all fitting in with my suppositions. In my case I believe the > priory, Colne Priory, owned the advowson (is that the correct terminology?) Probably not. The usual procedure when a monastery obtained an advowson was to present themselves (i.e. the monastery) as rector, thus appropriating (impropriating) the benefice and instituting a vicarage instead. As previously stated, the vicar would be a secular priest. > of Earls Colne church, which was a few hundred yards away, but not that of > Colne Engaine, across the river. It is at Colne Engaine, however, not Earls > Colne, that we find a monk of the priory named as rector, and so presumably > directly responsible for pastoral care of the parish, or at least turning up > to say mass. He would have needed a papal dispensation allowing him to accept a benefice with cure of souls. Examples (or at least purported examples) are known from the late fifteenth century. -- John Briggs ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion