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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
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A sum of money or allowance of meat, drink, and clothing due to the crown from the abbey or other religious louse, whereof it was founder, towards the sustentation of such one of its servants as is thought fit to receive it. It differs from a pension, in that it was allowed towards the maintenance of any of the king’s servants in an abbey; a pension being given to one of the king’s chaplains, for his better maintenance, till he may be provided with a benefice.
Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 250. See 1 Bl. Comm. 283.