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In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways Who was to be the new Bishop?
Anthony Trollope— Barchester Towers, First lines (1857)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry The Life and Writings of St. Augustine of Hippo: Bishop & Doctor of the Christian Church Augustine of Hippo at Georgetown University St. Augustinus | Augustine of Hippo
— St. Augustine: Between Two Worlds
— Augustine and 'other catholics'
We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, Bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.
william of malmesbury— Gesta Regum Anglorum of 1125. (Hugh M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation and Identity 1066-c.1220 (Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 56.)
No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studiousness and zeal. He knew mathematics and perspective, and there was nothing which he was unable to know; and at the same time he was sufficiently acquainted with languages to be able to understand the saints and the philosophers and the wise men of antiquity but his knowledge of languages was not such as to enable him to effect translations until the latter portion of his life...
roger bacon— Roger Bacon, Opus Tertium (c. 1267) p.91
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree, In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord ArchBishop of Rheims.
— R. H. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, The Jackdaw of Rheims; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 402.
If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No Bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.
james i of england— Speaking of the Puritans at Hampton Court Conference (16 January 1604)
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's Bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
john wycliffe— As quoted in Typical English Churchmen (1909) by John Neville Figgis, p. 15
The Bishop is in the nature of an ecclesiastical sheriff.
— North, C.J., Walwyn v. Awberry and others (1678), 1 Mod. 260.
