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Here they were blessed and sanctified, and then the Dean of Westminster and his prebendaries in their copes of state carried the regalia through the cloister to the royal robing room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Church House was packed with prebendaries, minor canons, curates, newshawks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although the case was decided against Sir Walter Leveson, the prebendaries reaped little or no benefit; for Sir Walter died immediately after, leaving his heir a minor, and a ward of the King. 

From The Annals of Willenhall by Hackwood, Frederick William

It was remarked by one of the prebendaries present, that the whole number of balls did not agree with the number of votes.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

The Choiseul party, which had gradually been reconstituted, under the influence of the queen, the princes, parlement, the prebendaries, and the trade corporations, worked adroitly to eliminate this reformer of lucrative abuses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various