The prebendaries of Aylesbury can be traced back to Ralph in 1092. The prebend of

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was attached to the

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as early as 1092. An early account states ''"It is said that a Bishop of Lincoln, desired by the Pope, give the Personage of Aylesbury to a stranger, a kinsman of his, found means to make it a Prebend, and to incorporate it to Lincoln Church."'' So in the reign of

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the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury was part of the Deanery of Lincoln, and a separate stall in that

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was set aside for the

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. Most prebends disappeared in 1547, when nearly all

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in England were dissolved by the '' Act for the Dissolution of Collegiate Churches and Chantries'' of that year, as part of the

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. Aylesbury seems to have been an exception until 1842 when after the death of Dr. Pretyman an Honorary Canon was appointed in his stead.

List of prebendaries of Aylesbury

Plaque in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury

Notes

References

* * * *{{cite book, last=Gibbs, first=Robert, title=Buckinghamshire: A history of Aylesbury with its borough and hundreds, the hamlet of Walton, and the electoral division, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXdKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63, year=1885, publisher=R. Gibbs Diocese of Lincoln