...delegated powers, and at last ... a feudal Prince who owed little more than a nominal subjection " The Prelate of Durham became one, and the more important,...powers enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the Empire. The Bishop of Ely in his island, the Bishop of Durham in his hill-fortress, possessed powers which...

...wealth and in temporal authority, The Prelate of Durham became one, and the more im- Durham. portant, of the only two English Prelates whose worldly franchises...powers enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the Empire. The Bishop of Ely in his island, the Bishop of Durham in his hill-fortress, possessed powers which...

...successors of Ealdhun came to surpass all their episcopal brethren in wealth and in temporal authority. The Prelate of Durham became one, and the more important,...only two English Prelates whose worldly franchises 1 See K- •'.!,!, Eccl. Hist. iv. 27, and the totum occupaverat." Compare the deprose and verse lives...

...came Greatnuw to surpass all their episcopal brethren in wealth and in ,,orai au_ temporal authority. The prelate of Durham became one, and the more important, of the only two English prelates Durham. whose worldly franchises invested them with some faint shadow of the sovereign powers enjoyed...

...Cheshire, Durham also was once a county palatine, but the count was here an ecclesiastic, not a layman. "The Prelate of Durham became one, and the more important,...invested them with some faint shadow of the sovereign power enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the Empire. The Bishop of Ely in his island, the Bishop...

...existing buildings belongs to a period some twenty years subsequent to the Norman Conquest; by which time the "prelate of Durham became one, and the more important,...powers enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the Empire. The Bishop of Ely in his island, the Bishop of Durham in his hillfortress, possessed powers which no...

...the next four centuries exercised an almost entirely independent sway over the Palatinate of Durham. 'The Prelate of Durham became one, and the more important,...powers enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the Empire. The Bishop of Ely in his island, the Bishop of Durham in his hill-fortress, possessed powers which...

...the next four centuries exercised an almost entirely independent sway over the Palatinate of Durham. 'The Prelate of Durham became one, and the more important,...English prelates whose worldly franchises invested them wilh some faint shadow of the sovereign powers enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the Empire. The...

...palatinate of Durham. The historian Freeman says that then "the prelate of Durham became one, and the most important, of the only two English prelates whose...powers enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the empire. The Bishop of Ely in his island, the Bishop of Durham in his hill- fortress, possessed powers which...

...the next four centuries exercised an almost entirely independent sway over the Palatinate of Durham. 'The Prelate of Durham became one, and the more important,...powers enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the Empire. The Bishop of Ely in his island, the Bishop of Durham in his hill-fortress, possessed powers which...