Canons and Prebendaries

Secular Cathedral 
A cathedral in which the chapter was composed of canons who lived in their own houses and were not governed by a monastic rule. Nine such cathedrals existed in England between the 11th and 16th centuries.

Monastic Cathedral

In a monastic cathedral the internal government was that of the religious order to which the chapter belonged and all the members kept perpetual residence.

British-history.ac.uk.

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 2 - Monastic cathedrals (northern and southern provinces)  

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=123

Canons

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03252a.htm

Prebends and prebendary

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12371a.htm

A prebend was  a share of the income deriving from cathedral lands [praebenda]. A prebendary was the beneficiary of a prebend.

Chapters and Chapter Houses.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03582b.htm

Benefices.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02473c.htm

Shahan, T. (1907). Council of Agde. 506 A.D.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01206b.htm

Nominations

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11093a.htm

Kathleen Edwards (1967). The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages: A Constitutional Study with Special Reference to the Fourteenth Century. Manchester University Press.
"Chapter 1: Canons and Their Residence". pp. 33–

Christopher Robert Cheney (1956). From Becket to Langton: English Church Government, 1170-1213. Manchester University Press.

Wikipedia Articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral

Canon (priest) - Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_Regular

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_(religion)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_chapter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_house

Barrow, J. (1989). Education and the Recruitment of Cathedral Canons in England and Germany 1100-1225. Viator, 20(1), 117-138.

C. N. L. Brooke (1999). Churches and Churchmen in Medieval Europe. Monk and Canon, Some Aspects of Religious Life in the 12th Century: A&C Black. pp. 213–. ISBN 978-1-85285-183-5.