Unlike the many English cathedrals of monastic foundation, Wells has an exceptional number of surviving secular buildings associated with its chapter of secular canons, such as the Bishop's Palace and the Vicars' Close, a residential street which has remained intact from the 15th century.
The deal — as daring and brazen as the man himself — tore up a crucial chapter of the legal canon that had guided American banking since the Depression.
He doubled the number of canons in the cathedral chapter at Lincoln Cathedral during his episcopate.
"I had to go to the police later and pay a fine," he says, "but I was glad I had done it". So at last Menzel has added another chapter to his canon of Hrabal adaptations (his sixth, in all).
The previous year the Bishop of Paris, Bartholomeus, had died, and the canons of the chapter of Notre Dame met to select his successor.
A chapter of five dignitaries and three ordinary canons was authorised and based its constitution on that of Lincoln Cathedral.
In the Electorate, the Chapter included 24 canons of various social ranks; they each had a place in the choir, based on their rank, which in turn was usually derived from the social standing of their families.
Threni makes extensive use of canons.
However, the party of canons, who had been accompanied by two bishops and some other clergy, were prevented from entering by a monk of Canterbury Cathedral, who claimed that St Martin's belonged to the monks of the cathedral chapter.
I use lots of canons and unisons.
Blue is a very well-read young woman, so along with gauche drawings and hundreds of parenthetic bibliographical references, she names each chapter of her story after works from the canon.
