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
With a mitred abbot who sat among the lords spiritual in Parliament, St. Mary's was perhaps the most important of the northern monasteries.
From Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century by Edwin Benson
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
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 Jean Jules Jusserand
