Anno 1687 I travelled from London as far as the Bishoprick of Durham.
From Stamford to the bishoprick I sawe not one elme on the roade, whereas from London to Stamford they are in every hedge almost.
The Revenues of thisBishoprick were valued 25th Henry VIII.
The Bishoprickwas next conferred on Rowland Meyrick, L.
The Bishoprick has been to us what the Abbey has been to our neighbours at Glastonbury, what the church first of Abbots and then of Bishops has been elsewhere to Ely and Peterborough.
The bishoprick and its church may be comparatively modern institutions, and they may be altogether eclipsed by some other institution more ancient in date of foundation, perhaps more ancient in its actual fabric.
Bishop as superior Lord, as those of theBishoprick itself went to the King.
Coventry and Lichfield, joint Bishoprick of, 46; destruction of the Church of Coventry, 64.
The feudal ideas which, as I before said, came to be applied to ecclesiastical benefices, would come to be applied to a prebend no less than to a Bishoprick or a rectory.
Now the Bishoprick of the Sumorsaetas was not one of the oldest Bishopricks, one of those which were founded at the first preaching of the Gospel in England.
Released at the opening of 1549, Knox found shelter in England, where he became one of the most stirring among the preachers of the day, and was offered a bishoprick by Northumberland.
The House of Commons met Northumberland's project for the pillage of the bishoprick of Durham with opposition, and rejected a new treason bill.
This stern soldier was the eldest son of Marmaduke Fitz-Geoffrey, Lord of Hordene, in the bishoprick of Durham, who, in the 45th Henry III.
Lamberton appears to have succeeded Frazer in the Bishoprickof St Andrew’s.
He then left the bishoprick which had been committed to his government, resigning the same to Herman, and, crossing the seas, travelled in pilgrimage through Hungary and other countries, to Jerusalem.
The Archbishop has a Right of Nomination to the four last Bishopricks; only the Nomination to the Bishoprick of Gurck is alternative between this Prelate and the Emperor, as Archduke of Austria.
The Bishoprick of Spire is one of the fruitfullest Provinces in Germany, but the Inhabitants are extremely poor; for their Provisions lie on their hands, and they have scarce wherewithal to pay the great Taillies due to their Sovereigns.
When this Bishoprickwas seculariz'd it was said that no Catholic Prince could ever be possess'd of this State.
Church honour'd as a Saint, erected thisBishoprick into an Archbishoprick in favour of St. Arnould, in the Year 798.
Ernest-Augustus obtained the Electoral Dignity, not without making great Presents to the Court of Vienna, at a time too when his Power was limited to the Dutchy of Hanover, and the Bishoprick of Osnabrug.
The Bishoprick of Bamberg is contiguous to seven or eight different States, and the Town it self lies in the greatest Road of all Germany, which is the Reason that 'tis so infested by Rogues from all Quarters.
As his Bishoprick is not one of the most considerable in Germany, so his Court is none of the biggest, but his Houshold is well regulated, and every thing conducted in it with Order and Splendor.
We travel thro' the Dominions of Spire, the Bishoprick of Strasbourg, and the County of Hanau.
He has resigned his Bishoprick and no doubt (void of all temporizing) is thoroughly persuaded that the man of sin sitteth in Rome.
Footnote 126: Fosse and Florennes,—a small town and village in the bishoprick of Liege.
Through his great interest at court, his two brothers were presented, one to the bishoprick of Paris, the other to the archbishoprick of Sens and office of chancellor.
And after this, we find no other mention of that bishoprick in any statute until 25 Char.
The revenues of two sees whose tenants were foreigners fell into his hands; he held the bishoprick of Winchester and the abbacy of St. Albans.
The new legate, Campeggio, held the bishoprick of Salisbury, and had been asked for as judge from the belief that he would favour the king's cause.
Sir Anthony Weldon sayes (in his Court of King James), 'twas the only bishoprick that he disposed of without symony, all others being made merchandise of for the advancement of his kindred.
Abraham, his brother, succeeded him in theBishoprick in 1227, and gave the remaining half.
He continued in the bishoprick to the sixth year of King Henry IV.
Atterbury retained the office of preacher at Bridewell till his promotion to the bishoprick of Rochester.
He resigned his bishoprick of his own voluntary in the year 1221, saith Cogshall.
William Courtney, translated from Hereford to the bishoprick of London, and after translated from thence to the archbishoprick of Canterbury in the year 1381.
Year he was advanced to the Bishoprick of Carlisle; and this Book breaks off in the 31st of his Reign.
After his Decease, Dean Day was commanded to execute the Office during its Vacancy (being 14 Years) which he effected ’till he was advanced to the Bishoprick of Winchester, An.
Mainard first preach’d Christianity to the Livonians, and erected the Bishoprick of Riga; but his Successors meeting with many Difficulties, A.
Mr. Robert Pont shewed the Kings presentation to the Bishoprick of Cathnes, & desidered the judgement of the Assembly.
But I was soon answer'd by this his former Admirer, that if that Bishop had strengthened his own Title to the Bishoprick from King J.
I will only (said a certain Person) make a Supposition, to shew you how this may be; suppose the King should bestow a Bishoprick upon a de facto Doctor, and this Doctor should there find his old Acquaintance Dr.
Gilbert Sheldon was appointed to the bishoprick of London, after the restoration, he claimed the manor, and rectory of Paddington.
It doth not appear that he resigned his bishoprick voluntarily, but was convented before the High Commission Court in England in the tenth year of king James I.
Not long after this, the Elector of Cologne, his Uncle, caused the young Prince to be appointed his Coadjutor: And upon the Death of Joseph Clement, Clement Augustus succeeded him also in the Bishoprick of Hildesheim.
Fleury, who resigned the Bishoprick of Frejus, that he might not have the Charge of Souls, was so far from accepting one of the greatest Archbishopricks in the Kingdom, that he absolutely refused it.
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