 ... a lay Abbot; for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or rather patrons of their churches; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating...  The new Aberystwyth guide - Side 84av Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard - 1824Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1815 - 1092 sider
...parish stewards, or rather patrons of their churches ; who in process of time, from a desire of g'iin, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their...to themselves a title, as well as estates, to which thej have no just claim. In this state we found the church of Lianpadarn, without a head. A certain... | |
 | Ernest Silvanus Appleyard - 1853 - 224 sider
...to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving to the clergy the altars, with the tithes and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church." Having a more respectable origin, the lay-abbots of Giraldus's time pretty much resemble the lay-impropriators... | |
 | John Rowlands - 1866 - 148 sider
...the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even to their sons and relations in the church. Such defenders,...church, have caused themselves to be called abbots, and presume to attribute to themselves a title, as well as estates, to which they have no just claims.... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1897 - 382 sider
...desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with...oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relatives in the church. Such defenders, or rather destroyers of the church have caused themselves... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - 1877 - 546 sider
...Giraldus Cambrensis' Itinerary of Wales, in which, talking of the church of Llanpadarn Vawr, he says ' that this church, like many others in Wales and Ireland,...title, as well as estates, to which they have no just claim,'43 gives us an illustration of the firsthand the equally well-known statement by St. Bernard,... | |
 | Ebenezer Josiah Newell - 1895 - 456 sider
...right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy their altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning...even these to their sons and relations in the Church. When Gerald and Archbishop Baldwin visited Llanbadarn they found ' a certain old man, waxen old in... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1897 - 380 sider
...desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with...oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relatives in the church. Such defenders, or rather destroyers of the church have caused themselves... | |
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