lords spiritual
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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
Lord Halifax, Randolph Churchill and such formidable lords spiritual as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Lords Spiritual.—Finally, there are the ecclesiastical members—not peers, but "lords spiritual."
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
The rivalry of lords, spiritual and temporal, of popes, of dukes and princes, in the luxury of their f�tes was a salient phenomenon of the time.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
All being at last assembled, the king, the lords spiritual and temporal and the Commons, meet together in the "Painted Chamber."
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
