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Benefice

A benefice has a number of meanings.

Originally, it was a gift of land given as a reward for services rendered.
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Benefice before the Reformation

At one point, Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, the grandson and cardinal-nephew

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Benefices after the Reformation

The corruption of some priests brought forth the Reformation in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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Benefices in the Church of Englan

The term benefice is used in the Church of England.
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