Meanings of ecclesiastical benefice in English

Now oral remuneration denotes the conferring of an ecclesiastical benefice at some person's request.

And lastly, the king promised him an ecclesiastical benefice.

But they were still required to resign on marrying or taking up an ecclesiastical benefice.

Or that giving a present of money to secure an ecclesiastical benefice is to purchase it?

But, if one be in need, one may lawfully seek for oneself an ecclesiastical benefice without the cure of souls.

Therefore it seems lawful to confer ecclesiastical benefices for services received.

Whereupon the agent demanded the percentage the Pope had just demanded on all ecclesiastical benefices.

Ecclesiastical benefices now fell fast upon him.

This lawless pillaging of ecclesiastical benefices and fiefs by Rome should be resisted at once by the nobility.

Ecclesiastical benefices of great dignity had been bestowed, some on avowed Papists, and some on half concealed Papists.

The example had already been set in several of the ecclesiastical benefices of Lower Germany, and attended with success.

But simony, or the sale of ecclesiastical benefices, was a still more alarming evil to the mind of Gregory.

Ecclesiastical benefices were to pay church- scot, a payment in lieu of first fruits of the land, to the pope.

The great ecclesiastical benefices were equally matter of merchandise, and married men, women, unborn children, enjoyed revenues as dignitaries of the church.

Likewise he resigned all his ecclesiastical benefices, but he kept some small portion of his father's goods to provide for his own necessities.

All the inferior ecclesiastical benefices comprehended within the diocese were collated by the bishop, who bestowed them upon such ecclesiastics as he thought proper.