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On it he built a glebe house and offices, the only one then in this county, and expended therein more than a thousand pounds.
A glebe is a piece of land forming part of a clergyman's living, and right next door was the tiny church of St Edmund.
It was his own property, served by a poor priest in return for glebe land of 2 virgates, twice as much as a ceorl.
Many of his architectural designs were for glebe houses to accommodate the clergy, others for churches.
It was noted in a letter book of 1907 that the late Canon C. W. Foster was already being asked to produce glebe terriers for the diocesan registrar.
It was in this way that a great deal of tithe and glebe land passed out of the reach of the parish clergy and into the hands of cathedral chapters.
Anglicanism enjoyed its dominant position in the plantation colonies, endowed with glebe lands, housed in parish churches, and staffed with a university-educated clergy.
The law discriminates between the owners of land which was formerly glebe and of land which was not by making the former but not the latter liable for chancel repairs.
The living is a rectory, yearly value 800, with a glebe house, in the a gift of the Earl of Abergavenny, and held by the Rev. Sir Henry Thompson, Bart.
As soon as he could fit up the glebe house for his reception he resided in it, and has continued religiously and conscientiously to do so, ever since.
The tithes should be sold at a moderate valuation, and a fund established, which would not only provide amply for the clergy, but enable them to build glebe houses.
While there he built a glebe house, restored the fabric of the church, and with Thomas Boyce of Bannow House founded Bannow agricultural school on a farm of 40 acres.
How many of us understand this silent glebe that we trample on our entire lives when we are not confined to cities that are removed from the earth, making it that much more foreign to us?
The blooming tubers have thriven in proportion, and at reaping time the acre of ground thus cropped will prove the most productive ever cultivated on the glebe of Cummertrees.
The jury heard that when Vinall practised at Glebe House, Headingley, in the early 1990s no chaperones were provided for his patients.
Glebe House is a substantial and attractive Georgian house built over a full-sized basement with three extensions.
He plunges with avidity into the delights of inner-city Glebe and the University of Sydney in its heyday.
Security patrols and closed-circuit television cameras are being spruiked as a possible solution to crime in Glebe after a spate of robberies and vandalism attacks.
This is a Scottish holiday very much as it would have been 50 years ago, when the Broons left their tenement in Glebe Street for a two-room but and ben in an anonymous glen.
The bulk of the money will be pumped into restoring the village's Glebe garden, but cash will also be dished out to pay for hanging baskets and other floral projects.
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Rectorial glebe is not liable to pay vicarial tithe to the vicar, nor is vicarial glebe liable to rectorial tithe to the rector.
This field extended to the limits of the glebe, which was enclosed on that side by a privet-hedge.
Add to all these changes, that the garden was weeded, and the glebe was regularly laboured.
There's a quickset hedge beyond, along the glebe that belongs to the vicarage.
There was much to do out of the house also, what with the cows and the garden and the glebe.
In a parish where there is an impropriate rectory and a vicarage, glebe may be attached to both or either.
A terrier of glebe lands, with any exchange noted, should be made.
Is the culture to be slovenly where the glebe is so fertile?
It nearly corresponds with the English glebe in its proper use.
The Great North Road should have been bordered all its length with glebe.
If the glebe land is proportionate, it may yield two potatoes.
Glebe was already riding high after another major competitive victory at the Battle Creek International Balloon Championship, held last month.
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