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   Matthew Parker

   In 1537 he was appointed chaplain to King Henry VIII. ... He graduated DD in that year, and in 1541 was appointed to the second prebend in the reconstituted cathedral church of Ely.
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   Edward Maria Wingfield

   ↑ Wingfield's middle name "Maria" derives from Mary, sister of Henry VIII. ... His Majesty did accordingly grant their petition, and by Letters Patent, bearing the date the 10th of April, 1606, did in one Patent incorporate them into Two distinct Companies": Tho. Gates, Sir George Somers, Knights; Mr. Richard Hakluit, Clerk Prebend of Westminster, and Edward-Maria Wingfield, Esq; Adventurers of the City of London and such others as should be join'd unto them...
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   Prebendary

   A prebend is a type of benefice, which usually consisted of the income from the cathedral estates. ... Prebends and nearly all collegiate churches in England were dissolved by Henry VIII in 1547 as part of the Reformation by the Act for the Dissolution of Collegiate Churches and Chantries.
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   Cathedral

   All the English monastic cathedral chapters were dissolved by Henry VIII and, with the exceptions of Bath and Coventry, were refounded by him as churches of secular chapters, with a dean as the head, and a certain number of canons ranging from twelve at Canterbury and Durham to four at Carlisle, and with certain subordinate officers as minor canons, gospellers, epistolers, etc. ... Besides the dignitaries there were the ordinary canons, each of whom, as a rule, held a separate prebend or endowment, besides receiving his share of the common funds of the church.

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