prelacy
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To this prelacy and intolerance would have been joined inevitably.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
See that objection of hearing prelatical men in the time of former prelacy, answered above, Period 4.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
Alas, the prelacy has preferred to reign over a brutified people; they did not like to live a simple life among a free people.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
Considering how bishoprics go in the present day, we are astonished how the prelacy of Durham can pay at the price, and how, in fact, the bishop can manage to do it for the money.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
During his prelacy, the chapels of the choir were completed, and roofed with lead; and the choir and the columns that surround the high altar, were raised to the height of the chapels.
From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by John Sell Cotman
My honour and my manly dignity are of greater value in my eyes than all your livings, prelacies, and mitres; and I am ready to defend my honour against every one, even against Dr. Ritter.
From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous
