Prolocutor of the Convocation House, an officer chosen by ecclesiastical persons publicly assembled in convocation by virtue of the sovereign's writ; at every Parliament there are two prolocutors, one of the upper house of convocation, the other of the lower house, the latter of whom is chosen by the lower house, and presented to the bishops of the upper house as their prolocutor, that is, the person by whom the lower house of convocation intends to deliver its resolutions to the upper house, and have its own house especially ordered and governed: his office is to cause the clerk to call the names of such as are of that house, when he sees cause, to read all things propounded gather suffrages, etc., Jac. Law Dict.
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