Definition

• Cowell, The Inter- preter, 1607, s.v. Commissarie, has: " The Bishop taking prestation money of his archdeacons yearely."

  In the same work occurs: " Spiritualties of a Bishop. Prestation money, that sub- sidium charitatinum, which vppon reason- able cause he may require of his Clergie."

Source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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