Acquisitive prelates occasionally held multiple major benefices. In 1245 he enjoyed a dispensation enabling him to hold three ecclesiastical benefices. He was appointed prebendary of Wilton Abbey in 1535 and received two adjacent benefices. He endowed Hagano with monasteries that were already the benefices of other barons, alienating them. Both benefices were in the Diocese of Poitiers. Married priests were deprived of their benefices. They allowed clergy to accept revenues from the Italian state deriving from their benefices. He also gave his illegitimate sons lucrative benefices, diverting substantial church wealth into his coffers. He is patron of eleven Anglican benefices. His clerical benefices, included the Precentorship of York Minster. He was also empowered to confer vacant benefices in the city. The O'Donnells were patrons of the arts, literature, and of religious benefices. He held numerous other benefices and became very wealthy. In May 1519, the privilege was expanded to fifteen benefices. This was done in part to end the inheritance of benefices.