lords spiritual
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Lord Halifax, Randolph Churchill and such formidable lords spiritual as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit as lords spiritual, and 154 life peers have been created under the 1958 act.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was denominated the great council, being the lords spiritual and temporal, with the king's ordinary council annexed to them, as a council within a council.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
As this body is now constituted, the lords spiritual are two archbishops, twenty-four bishops, and four Irish representative prelates.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various
They consisted of certain lords spiritual and temporal, the chancellor, the treasurer, and a few commoners.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
