After that there was a monastery of secular canons.

Whether he ever contemplated replacing the monks by secular canons, we do not know.

He was probably a secular canon of St. George's college.

The chapter of secular canons was dissolved and monks took their place.

They later left, to be replaced by secular canons in the 17th century.

The church has the status of collegiate church as it had a college of secular canons.

It received a charter in 1127, replacing an earlier foundation of secular canons at St Stephens.

A young gentleman who has been to the university is serving as a clerk there, perhaps as a secular canon.

He apparently retired as a secular canon in England.

He was briefly a secular canon of St. Paul's, London, about 1163.