Charles spent the rest of that night writing to his uncle the Cardinal de Perigord, one of the most influential prelates at the court of Avignon.
The influence of the foreign prelates may also be traced in the presence of English bishops at papal councils.
He now gave way entirely; he agreed to receive the archbishop, and to recompense the exiled prelates and the Canterbury monks.
Rufus treated them as mere lay fiefs, and dealt with the prelatessimply as his tenants-in-chief.
Its prelates were foreigners; it was drawn more closely to Rome, and legates came over, and judged and deposed her native bishops, not always justly; its councils and courts were separated from the councils and courts of the nation.
An attempt was made to debar the prelates from political offices, and an attack on the wealth of the Church was threatened.
To this northern parliament he called the archbishop and prelatesof the province, and Melton and the clergy obeyed his summons, evidently with the hope of making peace.
Prelates do not sit in the Upper House as Peers, otherwise the charge of "mistake" will fall upon Blackstone, Comm.
Some of the most celebrated prelates in Europe have been educated at Monte Cassino.
Inquiries were then made of other prelates and of the Archbishop, who gave the same assurance.
Although the conflict with France was at first ascribed to Cardinal Merry del Val, he has of late been completely exonerated from blame, even by the French prelates and clergy.
On a tablet in the wall of the tribune are engraved the names of all the bishops andprelates who, in 1854, accepted the belief of the Immaculate Conception,--this tablet being placed by the order of Pio Nono.
Would not its prelates be considered as belonging to that class?
Then, Florry, your position is untenable, for Romish prelates of the present day do most unquestionably defend the theory of the annual occurrence of miracles.
Yet even prelates of Rome scruple not to narrate as miracles tales equally absurd, where their auditory is sufficiently ignorant to credit them.
The prelates of Rome, who long ago resorted to ignorance as their bulwark, are ever on the alert.
Such attempts have been made by some of the greatest prelates that the church has ever known.
He had written to the bishop for that permission to search which had been by other prelates so readily granted, but which had been rendered by the respective Registrars so utterly nugatory, and had received no answer.
He enclosed to his Lordship his letters from other prelates and stated his case.
He would venture for a moment, he continued, to address himself to the right reverend prelates who sat near him.
More particularly I implore those holy prelates of religion to do away these iniquities from among us:--let them perform a lustration; let them purify this house and this country from this sin!
Several other obnoxious prelateswere burned in effigy.
This declaration was made public in a meeting of prelates at Lambeth-palace, and announced by the bishop in the house of lords, so that it was evident that this was a measure not to be forced.
Harold hath sworn it; my Quens and prelates heard him; the bones of the saints attest the oath!
This book occasioned some prelates to say that they must root out printing or printing would root out them.
In that year all the prelates in council were shut up by king Stephen for refusing to crown his son; more remarkable for the appearance of Gratian's twenty-four years' labor, the Decretals.
But the prelates of the respective orders have always most tenaciously resisted any such encroachment on their faculties and jurisdiction.
Marco, and made the said Pope standing in his pontifical robes, with many prelates behind him, and the Doge likewise standing, accompanied by many Senators.
He was listened to by large crowds, composed of the most learned men and the most distinguished prelates of the age.
Experience proved to the prelates that few sheriffs would arrest on the mere warrant of an ecclesiastical officer, and that no royal court would issue the writ "for the burning of a heretic" on a bishop's requisition.
The zeal of the Spaniard Dominic was roused at the sight of the lordly prelates who sought by fire and sword to win the Albigensian heretics to the faith.
Sidenote: Wyclif] What gave point to this challenge was the assent of the prelates to the proceedings of the Parliament; and the pride of Urban V.
The prelates and lords of Scotland did homage to Henry as to their direct lord, and a right of appeal in all Scotch causes was allowed to the superior court of the English suzerain.
It was this wealth, this intermeddling with worldly business, which the ascetic reformer looked upon as the curse that robbed prelates and churchmen of that spiritual authority which could alone meet the vice and suffering of the time.
But these Provisions brought little fruit, and a tendency to mere feudal privilege showed itself in an exemption of all nobles and prelates from attendance at the Sheriff's courts.
He dismissed the new lords and prelates from the Council.
Responsibility to the community was provided for by the declaration of a right in the body of barons and prelates to remove either of the Three Electors, who in turn could displace or appoint the members of the Council.
Not a voice was raised in Edward's behalf, and only four prelates protested when the young Prince was proclaimed king by acclamation and presented as their sovereign to the multitudes without.
The higher prelates were busy with the cares of political office, and severed from the lower priesthood by the scandalous inequality between the revenues of the wealthier ecclesiastics and the "poor parson" of the country.
The appeal of the prelates to Rome was answered at last by a Brief ordering him to appear at the Papal Court.
When prelates and barons chose twelve representatives to confer with Henry in 1244 Simon stood with Earl Richard of Cornwall at the head of them.
Sidenote: Wyclif and John of Gaunt] To secure their work the Commons ended by obtaining the addition of nine lords with William of Wykeham and two other prelates among them to the royal Council.
But it was not till an open breach took place between the baronage and the prelates that their full weight was felt.
Phocas, emperor of the East, to confine it to the prelates of Rome, 606.
Anne looked queer, and much disposed to laugh at finding herself placed betwixt two prelates [in black petticoats].
His alarm was excited by the interest taken by the prelates in opposing a High Church institution to that desired by Mr. Brougham.
This was a large council, 1300 prelates taking part in the adjudication of this question.
Scholars have invariably attributed magical knowledge and practices to the church, popes and prelates of every degree having been thus accused.
The Church was as powerful as in Italy, and the two prelates were much honoured in the land.
To the ancient custom of interring prelates with their rings I have alluded in the chapter on 'Rings in Connection with Ecclesiastical Usages.
William de Hothum, Archbishop of Dublin, who died in 1298, set with a sapphire, as also of many silver ciphi and gold rings set with various gems, delivered to the King on the decease of several other prelates at that period.
Thus the prelates of Spain in the fifteenth and sixteenth councils of Toledo, defended the orthodoxy of their fellow-bishop, Julian, against the strictures of the then pope, Bendict II.
The Catholic prelates were now simply paid servants of the state, and thus their double connexion with the curia and the state brought with it in later times endless entanglements and complications.
Romish prelates have vied with one another in their abuse of Protestants and Protestantism.
The same sentence was pronounced against several other obstinate prelates and clergy, among them Archbishop Felinsky, and thus further opposition was stamped out.
At the head of the rebel prelates stood Don Vitalis Gonsalvez de Oliveira, bishop of Olinda and Pernambuco.
Meanwhile a powerful voice was raised from the midst of the German prelates that aimed a direct blow at the hierarchical papal system.
The deposed prelates were restored from their places of banishment, with promise of a liberal pension, and were allowed to choose their residences as they pleased, only not within their former dioceses.
As he examined the magnificent paintings with which the walls were adorned, he listened to the talk of the prelates and great men who filled the saloons, and waited for the Pope.
Better to fall into the hands of brigands than of the prelates here!
I will thunder against you, all ye prelates and cardinals of Rome, even as once the holy fathers thundered against the pagans.
My lecherie I commit to theprelates of the church, who haue most pleasure and felicitie therein.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prelates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
