Advowson (/ədˈvaʊzən/) or patronage is the right in English law of a patron (avowee) to present to the diocesan bishop (or in some cases the ordinary if...

The Advowsons Act 1708 (7 Ann. c. 18) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Advowson is the right to nominate someone to a bishop to be appointed...

Sir Edward de Warren was an illegitimate son of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey by his mistress Maud de Nerford of Norfolk. He was lord of the manor...

Feoffees for Impropriations, an organisation that bought benefices and advowsons so that Puritans could be appointed to them, was dissolved. Laud prosecuted...

manor of Souldern, had given the advowson of the parish to the Benedictine Eynsham Abbey. The abbot retained the advowson until the abbey was suppressed...

episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Fulham (currently Jonathan Baker). The advowson of St Andrew's was anciently held by the family of FitzWalter to which...

temporalities or his nominee, the patron and his successors in title, held the advowson (right to nominate a candidate for the post subject to the approval of...

patronage refund. This refund is a form of dividend. See main articles Advowson and Parish In the Church of England, patronage is the commonly used term...

Behan play produced in 1954 quare impedit English law writ commencing an advowson Daniel Quare (died 1724), an English clockmaker Quare is also used in conversation...

Piddington (Northamptonshire), and Blaston (Leicestershire), with the advowson of Blaston church, and the manors of North Elmham and Beetley (Norfolk)...