vergership

plural vergerships

1. An appointment as verger.

   Apparently he was not more attentive to his duties in this capacity, as he was discharged from his vergership on 26 July, 1708.

   1916, Francis Green, West Wales Historical Records

   2 more examples

   They usually give them, answered the priest, 'some benefice, or cure, or vergership, which brings them in a good penny-rent, besides the perquisites of the altar, usually valued at as much more.

   1840, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha

   "Yes sir; you will find her on the terrace, I have no doubt," said the old man, whose time for translation to a vergership had almost come, smiling knowingly at the visitor.

   1864, The Living Age - Volume 82, page 48