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	Vicar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A vicar capitular is a temporary ordinary of a diocese during a sede vacante period.
		Episcopal vicars and vicars forane lead territorial divisions of a diocese, episcopal vicars are normally titular bishops, while vicars forane are always priests.
		A parochial vicar is a priest assigned to a parish in addition to, and under the supervision of, the pastor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vicar (1111 words)

	THOMAS BRAY - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS BRAY
		BRAY, a village in the Wokingham parliamentary division of Berkshire, England, beautifully situated on the west (right) bank of the Thames,, m.
		One Francis Carswell, who is buried in the church, was vicar for forty-two years, approximately during this period, dying in 1709; but the legend is earlier, and the name of the vicar who gave rise to it is not certainly known.
		The coast, especially towards the promontory of Bray Head, offers beautiful sea-views, and some of the best inland scenery in the county is readily accessible, such as the Glens of the Dargle and the Downs, the demesne of Powerscourt, the Bray river, with its loughs, and the pass of the Scalp.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRAY_THOMAS.htm (630 words)

	vicar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In the broadest sense, a vicar is anyone who is acting as a substitute or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious").
		In the Anglican communion, vicar is the ordinary title given to certain parish priests.
		Many English culture figures started life as the educated but impoverished son of a vicar: Sir Francis Drake, Thomas Hobbes, John Henley, John Lightfoot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Adam Sedgwick,Cecil Rhodes, Nassau William Senior, or Charles Kingsley, for some examples drawn from various intellectual fields.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Vicar.html (539 words)

	The Vicar of Bray - TheBestLinks.com - Biology, Catholicism, Church of England, England, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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		The character of The Vicar of Bray appears in a traditional English folk song with that title.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Vicar_of_Bray.html (411 words)

	WHITEHAVEN : on the web \| Local history \| The Vicar of Bray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Vicar of Bray is the last known 'surviving' Whitehaven wooden built ship.
		She was used in the 1840's during the American Gold Rush, and as such is regarding as "one of the most important artefacts of American history".
		Records show that ownership of the Vicar of Bray passed to the Falkland Islands Company in 1873 and she appears to have been refitted and used in trade between London and the Islands.
	www.whitehaven.talktalk.net /history/vicarofbray.htm (401 words)

	The Vicar of Bray -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The eponymous ((Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish) vicar was the clergyman of the parish of (additional info and facts about Bray-on-Thames, Berkshire) Bray-on-Thames, Berkshire.
		The story remains the same in all circumstances: a clergyman changes with the religions of the monarchs and determined that, regardless of the contortions of principle involved, he will remain the Vicar of Bray.
		The newer theory for (Reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete) sexual reproduction, which is now accepted by most evolutionary biologists, is the (additional info and facts about Red Queen) Red Queen hypothesis.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_vicar_of_bray.htm (181 words)

	Chapter Versatile <i>to</i> Victor Amadeus of V by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Brome says the noted vicar was Simon Alleyn, vicar of Bray, in Berkshire, for fifty years.
		N.B.—The song called The Vicar of Bray was written in the reign of George I., by colonel Fuller or an officer in Fuller’s regiment, and does not refer to Alleyn, Pendleton, or Symonds, but to some real or imaginary person who was vicar of Bray from Charles II.
		Vicar of Wakefield (The), Dr. Primrose, a simple-minded, pious clergyman, with six children, begins life with a good fortune, a handsome house, and wealthy friends; but is reduced to utter poverty without any fault of his own, and, being reduced like Job, like Job he is restored.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1132/15071/2.html (733 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Vic’ar. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The clergyman who officiated for them was called their vicar or representative, and the law enjoined that the lord should allow him to receive the use of the glebe and all tithes except those accruing from grain (such as corn, barley, oats, rye, etc.), hay, and wood.
		The term Vicar is now applied to the minister of a district church, though he receives neither great nor small tithes; his stipend arising partly from endowment, partly from pew-rents, and in part from fees, voluntary contributions, offerings, and so on.
		The vicar of a pope is a Vicar-apostolic, and the vicar of a bishop is a curate or vicar in charge.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/17140.html (209 words)

	The Senator of Bray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		One of the best-loved old English songs is “The Vicar of Bray,” whose words first showed up in print in the 1730s (though to a tune no longer sung).
		Bray is a small village near Windsor, in southern England.
		In the song, the cynical vicar of Bray boasts of how, by "adjusting" his principles, he managed to hold on to his position as vicar through all the politico-religious turmoil of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
	www.olimu.com /Notes/SenatorOfBray.htm (166 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Vicar of Bray (The).
		In the first two reigns he was Protestant, in Mary’s reign he turned Papist, and in the next reign recanted—being resolved, whoever was king, to die Vicar of Bray.” (1540–1588.) Others say it is Pendleton.
		Ray refers to Simon Symonds, a vicar who was Independent in the Protectorate, Churchman in the reign of Charles II., Papist under James II., and Moderate Protestant under William and Mary.
		This vicar lived in the reigns of Charles II., James II., William III., Anne, and George I. Vic’ar.
	www.bartleby.com /81/17141.html (178 words)

	A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray - "I Write as I Please" - Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays - George Orwell, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		(Actually it is a few miles from Bray, but perhaps at that time the two livings were one.) In the churchyard there stands a magnificent yew tree which, according to a notice at its foot, was planted by no less a person than the Vicar of Bray himself.
		The Vicar of Bray, though he was well equipped to be a leader-writer on The Times, could hardly be described as an admirable character.
		Yet, after this lapse of time, all that is left of him is a comic song and a beautiful tree, which has rested the eyes of generation after generation and must surely have outweighed any bad effects which he produced by his political quislingism.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/ShootingElephant/goodword.html (1324 words)

	The Vicar of Bray - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		But the vicar continued to hold office, simply by changing his principles, to suit whoever was in power.
		Challenged on his unprincipled behaviour the Vicar is said to have defended himself by saying that, in whatever he did he steadily kept in view one principle: to live and die as the Vicar of Bray.
		Generations later another vicar of Bray, who followed in the footsteps of his notable predecessor, became the butt of numerous derisive songs.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/dec07/at8.asp (681 words)

	Vicar of Bray, a Whitehaven barque, now a hulk at Goose Green, Falkland Islands. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Vicar of Bray, a Whitehaven barque, now a hulk at Goose Green, Falkland Islands.
		The Vicar of Bray was a barque built by Robert Hardy at Whitehaven and was launched on the 22nd April 1841.
		In 1849, at the time of the California Gold Rush, she was part of a vast fleet of ships that rounded Cape Horn bound for San Francisco.
	www.mightyseas.co.uk /marhist/whitehaven/vicarofbray.htm (255 words)

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		Bray is a small village about one mile from Maidenhead, and its name would have remained "unsaid, unsung," had it not been for its never-enough-to-be-ridiculed Vicar.
		Camden supposes Bray to have been occupied by the _Bibroci_, who submitted to Caesar, and obtained his protection, and with it a secure possession of one of the most beautiful spots in this county; so that submissiveness seems to have been the very air of the place in all times.
		This Vicar being tax't by one for being a turncoat, not so (said he) for I always kept my principles, which is this, to live and die Vicar of Bray." Lastly, here is the song:-- THE VICAR OF BRAY.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/5/9/12599/12599-8.txt (10081 words)

	vicar of bray from letters to Bill Casselman's Canadian Word of the Day at billcasselman.com
		“The vicar of Bray, in Berkshire, was a Papist under the reign of Henry the Eighth, and a Protestant under Edward the Sixth; he was a Papist again under Mary, and once more became a Protestant in the reign of Elizabeth.
		So therefore one who alters his or her beliefs and principles to remain popular with authorities is a Vicar of Bray.
		The vicar became infamous as the subject of a very popular British song that appears in print first in 1734.
	www.billcasselman.com /questions_and_answers/vicar_bray.htm (303 words)

	Berkshire History: Bray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The church is littered with numerous other interesting monuments, including the brass of a fifteenth century judge (with lost wife) and the beautiful demi-figures of William Goddard and his wife, who founded the Jesus Hospital in 1609.
		This was built to house thirty-four of the aged poor of Bray and six of the fishmonger’s company to which he belonged.
		The ballad indicates he was Francis Carswell (Vicar 1650-1709), but the story was recorded of the rector through the turbulent Tudor years as early as 1662.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /villages/bray.html (861 words)

	Chapter Vesta <i>to</i> Vincent de la Rosa of V by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		The vicar of a pope is a Vicar- apostolic, and the vicar of a bishop is a curate or vicar in charge.
		In the first two reigns he was Protestant, in Mary's reign he turned Papist, and in the next reign recanted- being resolved, whoever was king, to die Vicar of Bray.” (1540-1588.) Others say it is Pendleton.
		This vicar lived in the reigns of Charles II., James II., William III., Anne, and George I. Vicar of Wakefield (The).
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1187/24474/1.html (648 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Vicar of Bray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Vicar of Bray was built for the copper-ore trade between England and Chile where, thirty years after Chile's independence, there were still no copper smelters.
		The Vicar remained in this work until the late 1840s, when she was put in general trade between England and South America and, later, Australia.
		The Vicar continued trading through the 1870s when, outward bound from Swansea to Valparaiso, heavy damage forced her into Stanley, Falkland Islands, where she was condemned.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_096300_vicarofbray.htm (553 words)

	Charles Bray -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		British philosopher and reformer Charles Bray spent his career trying to bring about changes to all aspects of the society in which he lived, from the education system to the labor market.
		“The Vicar of Bray,” a well-known English ballad of unknown authorship, tells how the vicar of the community retained his ecclesiastical living by changing creed according to necessity from the time of Charles II until the accession of...
		It is an important tourist centre, both as a resort and as a centre for touring the scenic areas of County Wicklow.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9317995 (728 words)

	bray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Another folk song referring to the Young Pretender is "Charlie is my darlin'.") The Vicar of Bray" tells the story of a certain vicar who conveniently changed his religion each time a new English King came to the throne, each King having his own religious ideas.
		Anothere theory has it that he was a vicar who served during the reigns of Henry VIII (Catholic turned Protestant); Edward VI (a Protestant);Queen Mary (a Catholic); and Queen Elizabeth (a Protestant).
		Bray is a charming village, by the way, just west of Windsor.
	www.pzweifel.com /music/bray.html (324 words)

	The Vicar of Bray
		The Vicar has other designs for his daughter in the form of Sandford's old schoolmate, Tommy Merton, son of the proprietor of the living of Bray.
		now that the Vicar and all his students have become 'High' they are doomed to celibacy and the Chorus of Lady Sunday School Teachers is distraught at the loss of their matrimonial prospects.
		Suddenly the solicitor arrives: the Vicar's High Church propensities have displeased his Bishop who has declared him defrocked, his living to be bestowed on Sandford.
	www.musicaltheatreguide.com /composers/solomon/vicar_of_bray.htm (329 words)

	Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau
		Now just a partly submerged hull, but once an integral part of the jetty which preserves it from the worst of the wind and tide, the Vicar of Bray made its 1849 trip from the west coast of South America, carrying a cargo of mercury, an important ingredient in the processing of gold.
		We know from the ships articles which survive in the archives of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen in Wales that The Vicar of Bray arrived in San Fransisco on November 3rd.
		A collier, boxy, unglamorous, throughly practical, and of the same generic type as Captain Cook's more famous Endeavour, the 281 tonne bark The Vicar of Bray, only 121ft 5ins long and 24ft 5ins wide, was launched in Whitehaven, Cumberland, in the North-west of England on April 22, 1841.
	www.falklands.gov.fk /pb/fi/gold-rush.htm (913 words)

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		:: vicar :: related - (parochial forane dibly wakefield dibley bray augustine dvd thorkild street) by Spell-Dictionary
		vicar choral) a cleric or choir member appointed to sing certain parts of a cathedral service.
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	Search Results for Gournay-en-Bray - Encyclopædia Britannica
		“The Vicar of Bray,” a well-known English ballad of unknown...
		The town developed during the 19th century; it has a long beach and esplanade, which terminate southward in Bray Head, a...
		Anglican clergyman, promoter of the Church of England in the American colonies, who was known as a religious progressive and reformer.
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	Bray
		Bray, which gives name to a hundred, and in the parish of which the town of Maidenhead partly stands, is celebrated for the versatility of principle manifested by one of its incumbents, whence ‘the Vicar of Bray’ has become a proverbial expression for a man who can shift his principles with the times.
		The well-known song of ‘the Vicar of Bray’ represents this personage as
		He had seen some martyrs burnt (two miles off) at Windsor, and found this fire too hot for his tender temper.
	www.oldtowns.co.uk /Berkshire/bray.htm (96 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, No. 482, March 26, 1831, ...
		Camden supposes Bray to have been occupied by the Bibroci, who submitted to Caesar, and obtained his protection, and with it a secure possession of one of the most beautiful spots in this county; so that submissiveness seems to have been the very air of the place in all times.
		The story of the Vicar of Bray is told with some variations, but the fact is not questioned.
		This Vicar being tax't by one for being a turncoat, not so (said he) for I always kept my principles, which is this, to live and die Vicar of Bray."
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/5/9/12599/12599-h/12599-h.htm (9962 words)

	Frank Kidson - Grove entries
		The tune now united to The Vicar of Bray, though an old one, is not the original, and in fact the union of the two is comparatively recent.
		On early sheet music The Vicar of Bray is set to a variant of the old Scottish melody Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, and it so appears in Walsh's British Musical Miscellany, vol.
		The Country Garden tune and the words of The Vicar of Bray are found united in the Convivial Songster, 1782, in Ritson's English Songs, 1783, in Calliope, or the Vocal Enchantress, 1788, and elsewhere.
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