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Tenths

also the tenth part of the annual value of every spiritual preferment, paid in early times to the pope, transferred from the pope to the Crown by 26 Hen. 8, c. 3, and from the Crown, for

Legate

Legate, a deputy, an ambassador, the Pope's nuncio. There are three kinds:-(1) Legates a latere, being such as the Pope commissions to take his place

Extravagantes

when they were afterwards inserted in the body of the canon law. The first extravagantes are those of Pope John XXII., successor of Clement V. The last collection was brought down to the year 1843, and was

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Defender of the Faith

It is still stamped (F.D. or Fid. Def.) on British coins. These titles were originally given by the Pope; and that of Defensor Fidei was first conferred in 1521 by Leo. X. on henry VIII. (but personally

Bull

Bull [fr. bulla, Lat., a stud or boss], a brief or mandate of the Pope or Bishop of Rome, so called from the seal of lead or gold affixed to it, upon which

Popish

Of or pertaining to the pope taught or ordained by the pope hence of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church often used opprobriously

Legantine, or legantine constitutions

or legantine constitutions, ecclesiastical laws enacted in national synods, held under the Cardinals Otho and Othobon, legates from Pope Gregory IX., and Pope Clement IV., in the reign of King Henry III., about the years 1220 and

Church of Scotland

Church of Scotland. The authority and jurisdiction of the Pope were abolished in 1567, and since then, except for some intervals of first, Presbytery has been the form

Commendators

Commendators. During Popery the commendator was the person by whom the fruits of a benefice were levied during a vacancy. He

Commendam

held, and to avoid this a dispensation, called a commendam retinere, had to be obtained either from the Pope, or in later times from the King. See Mirehouse on Adv. C. vii., S. 6. By the Ecclesiastical

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