Obs. [corrupt formations on advowson or advowsen (probably taken as = advows-ing, from an imaginary verb advowse, whence advows-ance, advowse-ment, on analogy of such regular forms as cognisance, cognisement, etc.]
c. 1536. Whiting, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., III. II. 380. Letters … purportinge th’empetracion of th’advousante of Batcombe in Somersetshire, together with an advousante redie writen.
1590. Swinburn, Testaments, 44. The Lord hath no title to … the aduowsement of a church, belonging to the villeine.
1754. Gardner, Hist. Dunwich, 135. He granted by Fine, to Richard Abbat of Sibeton, the Advowsance of the Church of Tunstall in Norfolk.
