prelacy

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Something more was required to render that success permanent by arousing anew the trust and confidence of the people, and that something could not be supplied by a worldly and ambitious prelacy.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

Considering how bishoprics go in the present day, we are astonished how the prelacy of Durham can pay at the price, and how, in fact, the bishop can manage to do it for the money.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Both were the first Protestants of their respective houses, both were attached to prelacy rather than to Presbyterianism, and both were wasteful and slovenly in money matters.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John

The Quaker, therefore, soon participated in the persecutions which prelacy thought due to liberal christianity.

From Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Mayer, Brantz

But even from this, one of its last places of refuge, was prelacy now about to be driven.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various