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Prelacies
Prelacy Prel"a*cy, n.; pl. Prelacies. [LL. praelatia. See Prelate; cf. Prelaty.] 1. The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates. Prelacies may be termed the greater benefices. --Ayliffe. 2. The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries. ``Divers of the reverend prelacy, and other most judicious men.' --Hooker.

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- which he entitled The Hatefull Hypocrisie and Rebellion of the Romishe Prelacie, London, 1570. A short Treatise of the Mistery of the Eucharist, London...
- 1689 still in force July 1689 c. 4 1689 c. 3 22 July 1689 Act abolishing Prelacie. Act abolishing Prelacy. Army Act 1689 (repealed) July 1689 c. 5 21 July...
- Alexander Henderson's Tract on the "Unlawfulness and Danger of Limited Prelacie"] [anon.] (1641); Satan the Leader-in-Chief to all who resist the Reparation...
- version attributed to Pym in William Prynne, Antipathie of the Lordly Prelacie (1641), for the date 26 February 1640 (O.S.) The version in John Rushworth's...
- every impartiall, iudicious, and godly reader : whether the presbyterie or prelacie be the better church-government, according to the Word of God ; being duely...