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Vicariate  n.  Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar. "The vicariate of that part of Germany which is governed by the Saxon laws devolved on the elector of Saxony."






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... though now extinct, is that of Hamerton. John Hamerton (as already stated) is mentioned, with John Goake, on a tablet inserted in the wall on the south side of the chancel arch, as being churchwarden in the vicariate of Thomas Gibson, in 1675, and throughout the early registers successive generations of this family are recorded. They may have been humble scions of the Hamertons, of Hamerton, Yorkshire, a branch of whom were among the landed ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter

... might execute it, in order to cut the root of the disturbances, I did not do so, in order to obviate difficulties and murmurs in a community so small. Therefore, seeing that there was no other way that was milder, I offered the said provisor the chaplaincy-in-chief and vicariate of the island of Hermosa—as will appear by my letter and his reply, which I enclose herewith for your Majesty. [16] That was with the intent of getting him away from Manila, so that he might not embroil ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Various



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