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Sir Topaz, the Curate, in "Twelfth Night". Similarly, nuns being styled
"Dame" - still the case, of course. Duffy's reference to "Non-graduate
priests" is slightly mysterious. He is presumably thinking of the title
"dominus" being used by the holder of a bachelor's degree (still the
case in some quarters, I believe) with th holders of a higher degree
being styled magister, doctor or professor as appropriate (the last
three originally being synonymous, of course.)
John Briggs
On 09/06/2011 09:39, Cate Gunn wrote:
>
> In The Voice of Morebath, an account by Eamonn Duffy of the history of a
> Devon village through the Reformation, the vicar (who kept the detailed
> parish accounts on which the book is based) was Sir Christopher Trychay.
> Duffy comments, 'Despite the title, he was not of course a knight.
> Non-graduate priests were conventionally given the honorific 'Sir' or,
> in Latin, 'Dominus', though this was a form of respect which by the
> sixteenth century could sometimes carry undertones of irony' (p. 14).
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