Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. social science concepts
5. legal concepts

Narrower term/s

• benefices of clergy

Anotations

Scope note:

Land tenures of a particular kind that came into use in the 8th century. By a benefice, a lord leased an estate to a freeman on easy terms; the lease normally came to an end on the death of the lord or of the tenant, though holders of benefices often succeeded in turning them into hereditary holdings.