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Ail entire parish church, with all its rights, glebes, tithes, and other profits whatsoever; otherwise commonly call- el a “benefice.” See Gibson v. Brockway, 8 N. H. 470, 31 Am. Dec. 200; Pawlet v. Clark, 9 Cranch, 326, 3 L. Ed. 735. A rector’s manse, or parsonage house. Spelman.

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