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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament.
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Much of the blame for the schism is generally attributed to Nikon, the overbearing prelate elevated to the Patriarchate in 1652.
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Primates and prelates exercised political power most effectively when they were moving in support of magnate opposition; against united barons they were impotent.
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The prelates were concerned, as explicit statements show, primarily to defend the church's liberties.
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The court of Gascony, composed of prelates and barons, was to be consulted to this end.
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The immediate impact of this event was to dissuade other prelates from publicly defending the king.
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The line of the living began with prelates in grand clothes, the Pope leading.
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The newly elected prelate still needed ecclesiastical consecration before he could exercise his pastoral functions.