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VICAB CHORAL.
1883 American V. 319 Retaining the administration of
the vicarate of North Carolina. 19x0 Q. Reg. Presbyt. Ck.
Aug. 337 In the diocese of Albi,..a number of vicarates have
been suppressed.
Vicar choral. Also vicar-chopal. [Vicar 3.]
(See quot. 1854, and cf. Choral a,^ \ b.)
The pi. occurs in farious forms, as vicars choral^ f vicars
choraiSy and, rarely, vicar chorals.
1530-1 Act 22 Hen. /'///, c. 15 All other.. canons, pety
canons, vicars choral), & cleVkes. 1546 Yorks. Chantry
Surv. (Surtees) 348 The same prebendaries have, .vicars.
under them.. called vicars choralles, which.. are bound to
. discharge the said prebendaryes of all their cures and service
in the sayd church, a x66x Fuller IVorthies^ Wilts,
III. (1662) 157 William Lawes, son of Thomas Lawes, a
Vicar Choral of the Church of Salisbury. 1704 Ace. Imiov.
Abp, Dublin 3 He calls.. the Vicar-Chorals, and orders
them to answer, notwithstanding [etc.]. 1770 In Met//. Rev.
If. Richardson (1822) 14 Vou seem to nave been much
taken with York lilinster and Cathedral Service, would you
like to be one of the Vicars Choral ? 1837-8 Act i & 2 l^ict.
c. 106 § 59 Any Spiritual Person, being Prebendary, Canon,
Priest Vicar, Vicar Choral, or ISIinor Canon. 1854 Hook
Church Diet. (ed. 7) 791/1 F/