Of prelates and princes : a study of the economic and social position of the Tudor episcopate / Felicity Heal.
The Tudor bishops were men of power and influence within the English realm, both because they possessed spiritual authority and because they exercised lordship over great estates. This book examines their activities as temporal lords: it seeks to discover how wealthy they were and to what uses their...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1980.
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