- A
prolocutor is a
chairman of some
ecclesiastical ****emblies in Anglicanism. In the
Church of England, the
Prolocutor is
chair of the
lower house of the...
- 1377, the
Speaker was
referred to by
terms such as the
parlour and the
prolocutor. Some of them presided, and
Peter de
Montfort and
Peter de la Mare were...
-
first person recorded as
having presided over
Parliament as a
parlour or
prolocutor, an
office now
known as
Speaker of the
House of Commons. He was one of...
-
formally known as the Speaker,
having previously been
referred to as the
prolocutor or
parlour (a semi-official position,
often nominated by the monarch,...
- tolls". In 1624, he
became vicar of St Dunstan-in-the-West, and in 1625 a
prolocutor to
Charles I. He
earned a re****tion as an
eloquent preacher. 160 of his...
- in a
paper lately published, intituled, A
letter to the
Reverend the
Prolocutor:
being an
answer to a paper, &c. By the
author of that letter. 1718 at...
-
presiding officer of the
House of
Commons was
initially known as the "
Prolocutor" and
sometimes as the Parlour, but the term most
often used was "Speaker"...
- in Oxford.
Early presiding officers were
known by the
title parlour or
prolocutor. The
continuous history of the
office of
speaker is held to date from...
-
would later evolve into Parliament, the lord
chancellor becoming the
prolocutor of its
upper house, the
House of Lords. As was
confirmed by a statute...
- that I may in this case
glorify God by that kind of death'; to
which the
prolocutor replied, 'If you go to
heaven in this faith, then I will
never come hither...
