He was told that if he wanted to process with the abbots he must attire himself accordingly, and was asked if he possessed the insignia of his office.
I have the ring of the Abbots of Westminster," pulling out of his waistcoat pocket the identical ring worn by Feckenham, the last abbot in the reign of Queen Mary!
Lord of this land and patron of Holy Thorn; a maker and unmaker of abbots to whom now I must bow my knees.
Calixtus, in brief, grants that the elections of bishops and abbots may take place in the presence of the Emperor, or of his agents, and that the Emperor should have the right to invest them with the scepter, i.
He removed bishops from their sees[354] and abbots from their offices, and he imprisoned thanes, and at length he spared not his own brother Odo.
Still, they were as much a part of the empire as before and the powerful bishops and abbots were expected to see that certain services were forthcoming when the Emperor found himself in need of them.
In Germany it had the intended effect of detaching many influential bishops and abbots from the imperial cause and stirring the political enemies of the king to renewed activity.
From the time of Clovis, the kings were accustomed to make grants of the sort to land-holding abbots and bishops, and by the time of Charlemagne nearly all such prelates had been thus favored.
That is, the "canonical" system of election of bishops by the chapters and of abbots by the monks.
There he spent the last eight years of his life in teaching, copying manuscripts, and writing letters to bishops and abbots regarding the advancement of religion and learning.
The abbots and bishops possessed but little learning, and the lower clergy, recruited largely from bondmen, were grossly ignorant, greatly to the injury of the Church.
He therefore commands the abbots neither to neglect the study of letters, if they wish to have his favor, nor to fail to send copies of his letter "to all your suffragans and fellow bishops, and to all the monasteries.
Realizing better than did his bishops andabbots the need for educational facilities for the nobles and clergy, he early turned his attention to securing teachers capable of giving the needed instruction.
In this document the king gently reproves the abbots of his realm for their illiteracy, and exhorts them to the study of letters.
Bishops and abbots were to be elected, in accordance with ancient custom, by their clergy.
The voice of chapters, of monks, of ecclesiastical patrons, went henceforth for nothing in the election of bishops or abbots or the nomination to livings in the gift of churchmen.
The old and more oppressive servitude had long passed away, but the later abbots had set themselves against the policy of concession and conciliation which had brought about this advance towards freedom.
The abbots of Burgh, Ramsey, and Ely were three of nine so deposed.
All the lands of Harold hereabout were divided amongst sacred abbots and noble chevaliers--Normans all.
With all their faults of ignorance and superstition, the Saxon churchmen loved their flocks; and the good abbots gave what comfort was in their power, and then passed into the chapel, where all who could find room followed them.
At these words, which for the first time apprised the English leaders that their king and kingdom were under the awful ban of excommunication, the thegns and abbots gazed on each other aghast.
Saxon prelates and abbotsreplaced the Norman fugitives; and all were contented with the revolution, save the King, for the King lost his Norman friends, and regained his English wife.
Richard, as we have said, was the last of the Abbots of Ely who were Abbots and nothing else.
Girvian Prince, Tonbert, and from her to her successors the Abbots and Bishops of Ely, whose jurisdiction survived until the nineteenth century.
The name covered only the southern part of the present county; for the Isle of Ely was reconstituted under the ancient jurisdiction of its great abbots and bishops.
From the Girvian Princes to the Abbesses of Ely, from the Abbesses to the Abbots, from the Abbots to the Bishops that Palatinate jurisdiction had been handed on for twelve hundred years;--and this was its sordid close.
A yet prettier way is to recross the stream at Houghton Lock and take a field-road across the meadows to the two Hemingfords, Hemingford Abbots and Hemingford Grey.
Here they received shelter and hospitality from Thurstan, the last of the English Abbots of Ely.
The islands were for many years, as we have seen, under the abbots of Tavistock, who held spiritual jurisdiction under the bishops of Exeter.
The right of theAbbots of Tavistock to the shipwrecks was challenged by King Edward I.
The manor had been let in fee farm to the Abbotsof Ramsey.
We might well fancy that the township of Dudesford, though divided between the Abbots of Buttlesden and of Oseney, would send its deputies as a whole, and would designate them in a meeting of the whole.
Solitaries, "recluses," are met with again and again in these old records, who more than once became Abbots of Iona itself.
The great lords and abbots among the Anglo-Saxons possessed a criminal jurisdiction within their territories, and could punish without appeal, any thieves or robbers whom they caught there [e].
The abbots in the monasteries of royal foundation were anciently named by the king; though Edgar gave the monks the election, and only reserved to himself the ratification.
But tell me, gentlefolks, if the devil ever had such a hand among ye, as to snatch away your smiths and your artists from under your nose, when the good Abbots of Abingdon had their own?
By this clause it was provided that in case any of the bishops and abbots passed over to the reformed religion they could not bring with them the ecclesiastical property attached to their office.
In the year 499, the country being ravaged by the Numidians, the two abbots were obliged to fly to Sicca Veneria, a city of the proconsular province of Africa.
Fulgentius long refused, but in vain; and the monks were ruled by these two abbotsliving in holy charity, Felix attending to the discipline and the bodily necessities of the brethren, Fulgentius instructing them in the divine love.
He nominates the abbots to two great abbeys, and presides over the provincial assemblies and the permanent bureau, which succeeds them.
Its bishops and abbots became here, sovereign princes, and there, veritable founders of dynasties.
The following account of these disasters was forwarded to Europe by the Vice-Master of the Temple, and the bishops and abbots of Palestine.
The convocations of the clergy and the great ecclesiastical councils were frequently held at the Temple, and laws were there made by the bishops and abbots for the government of the church and monasteries in England.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abbots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
