Rectory Definition

Rectory Sentence Examples

• The poet William Cowper was born in the rectory in 1731.

• He also held the rectory of Stourton from 1801 to 1811 and that of Fovant from 1811 until his death.

• On February 9, 1709, the rectory was burnt down, and the children had a narrow escape.

• In 1723 he was presented to the rectory of Chelmondiston in Suffolk; but residence being insisted on, he resigned both his appointments, and on the 3rd of July 1726 opened what he called an "oratory" in Newport Market, which he licensed under the Toleration Act.

• Though Aberdaron rectory does not belong to the isle, the farm "Cwrt" (Court), where the abbot held his court, still goes with Bardsey, which was granted to John Wynn of Bodvel, Carnarvonshire, after the battle and partial sack of Norwich by the Puritans in the Civil War; passing through Mary Bodvel to her husband, the earl of Radnor, who sold it to Dr Wilson of York.