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Page 11
... bishops and clergy , many of them foreigners , who applied themselves wholly to the study of the civil and canon laws , which now ... Bishop Burnet , indeed , seems to have thought that antipathy to the national church is an inseparable ...
... bishops and clergy , many of them foreigners , who applied themselves wholly to the study of the civil and canon laws , which now ... Bishop Burnet , indeed , seems to have thought that antipathy to the national church is an inseparable ...
Page 73
... bishop of Chester to make a lease to A. B. for sixty years is an exception to this rule ; it concerns only the parties and the bishop's successors ; and is therefore a private act . ( 69 ) Statutes also are either declaratory of the ...
... bishop of Chester to make a lease to A. B. for sixty years is an exception to this rule ; it concerns only the parties and the bishop's successors ; and is therefore a private act . ( 69 ) Statutes also are either declaratory of the ...
Page 74
... bishop , are not void during the bishop's continuance in his see ; or , if made by a dean and chapter , they are not void during the continuance of the dean ; for the act was made for the benefit and protection of the ( e ) 3 Rep . 7 ...
... bishop , are not void during the bishop's continuance in his see ; or , if made by a dean and chapter , they are not void during the continuance of the dean ; for the act was made for the benefit and protection of the ( e ) 3 Rep . 7 ...
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... bishop ; and though the bishopric be dissolved , as at Westminster , ( 43 ) yet it still remaineth a city , ( f ) A borough is now understood to be a town , either corporate or not , that sendeth burgesses to parliament . ( g ) Other ...
... bishop ; and though the bishopric be dissolved , as at Westminster , ( 43 ) yet it still remaineth a city , ( f ) A borough is now understood to be a town , either corporate or not , that sendeth burgesses to parliament . ( g ) Other ...
Page 142
... bishops , ( 27 ) and , at the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII . , consisted likewise of twenty - six mitred abbots , and two priors : ( s ) a very considerable body , and in those times equal in number to the tem- * 156 ] poral ...
... bishops , ( 27 ) and , at the dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII . , consisted likewise of twenty - six mitred abbots , and two priors : ( s ) a very considerable body , and in those times equal in number to the tem- * 156 ] poral ...
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