Vicar

one who siippliés the place of another: The piiest of every parish is called rector, unle thé pré tithes are appropriated, and then he is styled viéar} and when rectories are approptiated, vicats ate to supply the réctot’s placé. For the maintenance of the vicar; theré was then set apart a certain portion of the tithés, commonly about a thitd part of the whole, which are now what are called the vicatia! tithes; the rest heing reserved to the use of the fectors, which for the like reason are dehoniinated the rectorial tithes: