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
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
Present Ascendancy.—Legally, as has been explained, Parliament consists of the king, the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
It is now usually understood of the lords spiritual, the lords temporal, and the commons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
