An office, not being held by serjeanty, or attached to some particular office or title, is said to be "in gross". Examples include the Lord Great Chamberlain, the right to carry the spurs at a coronation (vested in the Lord Hastings and the Lord Churston, by descent from the Hastings Earl of Pembroke via Lord Grey de Ruthyn), the Grand Carver of England. Serjeanty. ... The Lord Great Chamberlain of England is the sixth of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Privy Seal and above the Lord High Constable. ... Spurs, a plural of spur, may also refer to Spurs, the abbreviated name for Tottenham Hotspur, an association football team from North London, England. ... A coronation is a ceremony in which a monarch is adorned with a coronation crown as a symbol of monarchy. ... The title Baron Hastings is an ancient one in the Peerage of England. ... The Earldom of Pembroke, associated with Pembroke Castle in Wales, was created by King Stephen of England. ... An hereditary office of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of England and later the United Kingdom, held in gross. ...

Certain Irish or Scottish offices, and some others which are doubtful or obsolete, are also held by this form of tenure. Tenure commonly refers to academic tenure systems, in which professors (at the university level)—and in some jurisdictions schoolteachers (at primary or secondary school levels)—are granted the right not to be fired without cause after an initial probationary period. ...