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Prolocutor of the Convocation House

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

Restraining Statutes

cc. 10, 20; 14 Eliz. c. 11; 18 Eliz. cc. 6, 11; and 43 Eliz. c. 9, restraining bishops and others from granting leases binding on their successors for more than a limited time. See 5 Reeves,

Spiritual corporations

furtherance of religion and perpetuating the rights of the Church. They are of two sorts: (1) Sole, as bishops, certain deans, parsons and vicars; or (2) Aggregate, as dean and chapter, prior and convent, abbot and monks.

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Spiritual Lords

Spiritual Lords, the archbishops and bishops of the House of Peers.

Table rents

Table rents, payments which used to be made to bishops, etc., reserved and appropriated to their table or housekeeping.

Temporal lords

Temporal lords, the peers of the realm; the bishops are not in strictness held to be peers, but merely lords of Parliament, 2 Steph. Com.

De tallagio non concedendo

or levied by us or put heirs in our realm without the goodwill and assent of the archbishops, bishops, earls, barons, knights, burgesses and other [freemen of the land] or free commons of our realm

Ecclesiastical Corporations

of the church, the members of which are exclusively spiritual persons. They are of two kinds: corporations sole-viz., bishops, certain deans, parsons, and vicars; and corporations aggregate-viz., deans and chapters, and formerly prior and convent, abbot and

Cahenslyism

the foreign born population of the United States for ecclesiastical purposes according to European nationalities and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the members of a

Crown

the Foreign Citations Act,the Act of Appeals, Abolition of Annates Act, the Act of Submission, the Confirmation of Bishops Act, the Archiepiscopal Licenses Act (23 Hen. 8, Contract Act, 1872 '. 9, 20; 24 Hen. 8, c.

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