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" ... liberties of the people. The open and shameless barter and sale of ecclesiastical dignities, throughout this period, is scarcely conceivable to us, amongst whom this abuse at least has ceased. ' Give you a nomination to a prebend ! ' exclaimed Philip... "
Domesday for Wiltshire: Extracted from Accurate Copies of the Original ... - Page lxx
1865 - 255 pages
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Miscellanea historica et critica, Volume 5

1823 - 380 pages
...a nomination to a prebend ! ' exclaimed Philip I. to an applicant, ' I have sold them all already.' The bishop was a judge, bound to attend to the reformation of manners, but he had bought his office, and therefore would sell impunity to the opulent transgressor ; hence the universal relaxation of all discipline,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 74

English literature - 1844 - 568 pages
...a nomination to a prebend ! ' exclaimed Philip I. to an applicant, ' 1 have sold them all already.' The bishop was a judge, bound to attend to the reformation of manners, but he had bought his office, and therefore would sell impunity to the opulent transgressor ; hence the universal relaxation of all discipline,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 74

English literature - 1844 - 698 pages
...a nomination to a prebend ! ' exclaimed Philip I. to an applicant, ' I have sold them all already.' The bishop was a judge, bound to attend to the reformation of manners, but he bad bought his office, and therefore would sell impunity to the opulent transgressor ; hence the universal...
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The History of Normandy and of England: Richard-Sans-Peur. Richard Le-Bon ...

Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1864 - 722 pages
...a nomination to a prebend !" exclaimed Philip I. to an applicant, " I have sold them all already." The bishop was a judge, bound to attend to the reformation of manners, but he had bought his office, and therefore would sell impunity to the r " opulent transgressor ; hence the universal relaxation of all...
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Canterbury

Robert Charles Jenkins - Canterbury - 1880 - 446 pages
...were viciously corrupted. Very many of the bishops and abbots had obtained their dignities by simony. The bishop was a judge, bound to attend to the reformation...manners, but he had bought his office, and so would sell immunity to the opulent transgressor. There were some holy men among the (clergy), but they were not...
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The Collected Historical Works of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H.

Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1921 - 678 pages
...nomination to a prebend ! " exclaimed Philip I.1 to an applicant, " I have sold them all already." The bishop was a judge, bound to attend to the reformation of manners, but he had bouqht his office, and therefore would sell impunity to the v«t «rai of these abuses opulent transgressor...
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The Collected Historical Works of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H.

Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1922 - 674 pages
...a judge, bound to attend to the reformation of manners, but he had bought his office, and therefore would sell impunity to the opulent transgressor ;...immorality. In all these transactions, the clergy were the most guilty. Every simoniacal promotion they obtained was accompanied by perjury; the higher the...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 3

American periodicals - 1844 - 584 pages
...you a nomination to a prebend !" exclaimed Philip I. to an applicant, "I have sold them all already." The bishop was a judge, bound to attend to the reformation of manners, but he had bought his office, and therefore would sell impunity to the opulent transgressor ; hence the universal relaxation of all discipline,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 74

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1844 - 572 pages
...a nomination to a prebend ! ' exclaimed Philip I. to an applicant, ' I have sold them all already.' The bishop was a judge, bound to attend to the reformation of manners, but he had boiu/ht his office, and therefore would sell impunity to the opulent transgressor ; hence the universal...
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Reviews, Essays and Other Writings

672 pages
...you a nomination to a prebend," exclaimed Philip I. to an applicant. "I have sold them all already." The bishop was a judge, bound to attend to the reformation of manners, but he had bought his office, and therefore would sell impunity to the opulent transgressor ; hence the universal relaxation of all discipline,...
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