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Below are explanations for words used in the text that are in Latin or have an historical or religious context.
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Canon: a member of a cathedral college. Residential Canons form the permanent salaried staff of the cathedral.
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Synod: an assembly of the clergy and sometimes laity in a diocese or other division of the Church.
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Rebus: an ornamental device associated with a person to whose name it punningly alludes.
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Gaudy: a celebratory reunion dinner or entertainment held by a college or institution.
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Precentor: a cathedral dignitary who leads a congregation in singing and is responsible for the direction of choral services.
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Chancellor: a legal officer that advises a bishop and is president of the Consistory Court. Also one of the four dignitaries in a cathedral often responsible for education and the library.
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Succentor: a deputy to the Precentor and usually a Minor Canon.
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Prebendary: the holder of a cathedral benefice whose income supported his post as Canon. Nowadays no finance is attached.
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Capitular: relating to a cathedral chapter.
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Messuage: dwelling with outbuildings
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Close: enclosed as in French 'Clos' or the Cathedral Close
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Demesne: a piece of land attached to a manor and retained by the owner for their own use
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Cold Harbour: a winter home for cattle
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Quarter: 2 stones or a ¼ of a cwt (hundredweight)
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Counterpart: part of a contract
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National School: Elementary school
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Kings House: now Salisbury Museum
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Usher: teacher's assistant
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Cartulary: A medieval manuscript register containing full or excerpted transcriptions of important documents, especially of originally loose, single-sheet charters
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Calends (Kalends): The first day of the month in the Roman calendar
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Recorder: A barrister appointed to serve as a part-time judge
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Dilapidations: Repairs required at the end of a tenancy or lease.
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Exegesis: Critical explanation of a text.
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Chancery: One of the two great offices of Royal Administration, the court of the Lord Chancellor. Chancery was responsible for the writing of charters and writs issued in the King's name.
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Advowson: The right of a benefice patron to present a clergyman for appointment to the Bishop.
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Agistor: Officer who watched over king's forests.
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Alienation: Property given by owner (especially the king) to another.
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Amerce: To impose a fine, usually by the lord of the manor.
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Bailiff: The chief officer of a Hundred representing the monarch under the Sheriff.
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Baron: The rank held by all tenants-in-chief, holding land directly of the king.
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Benefice: The office held by a priest, vicar or rector whose duties were recompensed by land - colloquially, a living.
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Subvention: Grant of money, especially from a government.
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Inspeximus: An inspeximus is a charter beginning with the Latin word Inspeximus (‘We have inspected’). It is declared in the charter that an earlier charter or letters patent, here quoted or summarised, has been examined and its validity confirmed.
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