Rectory

Rectory, a spiritual non-impropriated living, com-posed of land, tithes, and other oblations of the people, separate or dedicate to God, in any congregation for the service of His Church there, and for the maintenance of the governor or the minister thereof, to whose charge the same is committed, Spelm. Also, the house in which the rector resides. 'By the grant of a rectory or personage will pass the house, the glebe, the tithes, and offerings belong to it' (Shep. Touch. P. 93).