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Secular canon

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(R. C. Ch.) one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours.

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But what seems to have been overlooked by these sources is that during the reign of Edward III, Sir Thomas Astley had obtained permission to change the seven serving priests of the time into a dean and two secular canons supported by lay members and novices.
Himself a secular canon, whose endowment of two chaplaincies is commemorated in the inscription on Van Eyck's frame, he thus declares his institutional affiliation with the Church.
 
 
 
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