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He ordered the Canons to look to their prebendal houses. He tried to control their acceptance of benefices in plurality. He forbade them to farm their prebends to any but brother-canons except with his licence. It was he who gave the prebends their territorial names. Most important of all, he decreed in 1303 that the cure of souls in each prebend was to be entrusted to a vicar-perpetual.
Cecil Walter Charles Hallett - Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon
A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
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