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Altarage   Listen
noun
Altarage  n.  
1.
The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.
2.
The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes.






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"Altarage" Quotes from Famous Books



... between them, and Bishop Robert (1121-1159), with the object of superseding the Culdees, founded in 1144 a priory for the regular monks of St. Augustine, granting to them the Hospital of St. Andrews, with portions of the altarage. In the same year King David granted a charter to the prior and canons of St. Andrews, in which he provided that they shall receive the Keledei of Kilrimont into the canonry, with all their possessions and revenues, if they were willing to become canons-regular; but, if they refused, ...
— Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys • Dugald Butler and Herbert Story



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