[Footnote AC: The League Cadéa, or of the House of God, so called from the cathedral of the bishopric of Coire, which is situated in its capital.]

They asserted that, a century before, an ejected duke of Milan had ceded these valleys to the bishopric of Coire.

In Rochester, serene and yet active, the very ancient seat of a bishopric, we have something essentially Roman, the fortress on the Watling Street guarding the passage of the Medway, precisely as Piacenza was and is a Roman fortress upon the Emilian Way guarding the passage of the Po.

'Depend upon it, they promised him somethingsome prince-bishopric, perhaps.

"The same day and the same hour," he answered, "shall end my bishopric and my life."

And so great was his success and fame, that it is said he compelled William to renounce his Realism and also his chair, and accept a distant bishopric.

But, when the First Consul wrung from the Pope a concordat of which he disapproved, he resigned his bishopric, and shortly afterward died at Ettenheim, where, had he remained but a short time longer, he, like the Duke d'Enghien, might have found that a residence in a foreign land was no protection against the ever-suspicious enmity of Bonaparte.

He expected and had probably been promised a bishopric in England, with a seat among the peers of the realm; but the Tories offered him instead the place of dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.

Gaisford has refused the Bishopric of Oxfordwisely, for he was only a Grecian and had good preferment.

But he advanced his pretensions with secrecy, and received as the price of his silence, first the bishopric of Exeter, and afterwards, when he complained of the poverty of that see, the richer bishopric of Worcester.

But he advanced his pretensions with secrecy, and received as the price of his silence, first the bishopric of Exeter, and afterwards, when he complained of the poverty of that see, the richer bishopric of Worcester.

No Bishopric.Becomes Canon of St. Paul's.

It appears that Sydney Smith felt to the hour of his death pained that those by whose side he had fought for fifty years, in their adversity, the Whig party, should never have offered what he declared he should have rejected, a bishopric, when they were constantly bestowing such promotions on persons of mediocre talent and claims.

Arius put out of a bishopric by Eustathius, turned heretic, and lived after discontented all his life.

In my opinion, there is no proof of his ever having been there, much less of his having held the bishopric.

About 705, it was chosen as the seat of a bishopric.

LLANDAFF, Bishopric of, iv. 118, n. 2. LLOYD, A., Account of Mona, v. 450.

PEARCE, Zachary, Bishop of Rochester, Johnson, sends etymologies to, i. 292; iii. 112; writes the dedication to his posthumous works, iii. 113; wishes to resign his bishopric, iii. 113, n. 2; mentioned, i. 135.

In 1841 he sent Bunsen to England to negotiate the ill-considered and precipitate arrangement for the Jerusalem bishopric; and on the successful conclusion of the negotiation, Bunsen was appointed permanently to be Prussian Minister in London.

Concini's wife, the favorite Leonora, is burned as a witch,Regent Mary is sent to Blois,Richelieu is banished to his bishopric.

Donatus was received with great honor by clergy and people and was requested to fill their vacant bishopric.

Walls had written to Swift of the vacancy of the see of Waterford, and, from the reply to the archdeacon, we learn that even at so early a date Swift suffered a grievous disappointment; for in January, 1708, the bishopric, of which Swift had hopes, was presented to Dr. Thomas Milles.

The Protestant bishopric of Magdeburg had been forcibly restored to the Catholics in 1629.

He made it a bishopric in 1512.

During this same period the island was constituted a bishopric, with Alonzo Manso, ex-sacristan of Prince John and cánon of Salamanca as prelate.