prelacy
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The archbishop of Seville could ill brook that a humble Dominican should be thus raised from the cloister over the heads of the proud prelacy of Spain.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
This confraternity embraces the flower of the Roman prelacy, the patrician order and the priesthood.”
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
But always again, where royalty wavered, or on the other hand in desperation leaped to violent opposition, the prelacy was close behind it with an urgency which often bordered upon dictation.
From William Bradford of Plymouth by Albert Hale Plumb
But even from this, one of its last places of refuge, was prelacy now about to be driven.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
This happened during the prelacy of Geoffrey de Servin.
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
