The Government of the British Empire
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From the earliest times, the archbishops and bishops of England sat in the great councils of the realm, even in the old English Witans. Naturally they formed part of the earliest Parlia- ments, the centre of which was the Council of Magnates of the Norman and Plantagenet reigns, of which they had also been members. Along with them sat the " mitred abbots, " or heads of the greater ecclesiastical monasteries. Down to the Reformation, especially after the slaughter of the lay nobles in the Wars o...f the Roses, these clerical peers even outnum- bered the lay peers ; but the mitred abbots disappeared at the Reformation, when the monasteries were suppressed, and the 122 THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT number of lay peers was gradually increased by the creation of new peerages, whilst, after the sixteenth century, no new bishoprics were created for two hundred years. Further, when, in the nineteenth century, the creation of new bishop- rics became common, it was provided that an increase in their number should not increase the number of episcopal peers in Parliament.
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From the earliest times, the archbishops and bishops of England sat in the great councils of the realm, even in the old English Witans. Naturally they formed part of the earliest Parlia- ments, the centre of which was the Council of Magnates of the Norman and Plantagenet reigns, of which they had also been members. Along with them sat the " mitred abbots, " or heads of the greater ecclesiastical monasteries. Down to the Reformation, especially after the slaughter of the lay nobles in the Wars o...f the Roses, these clerical peers even outnum- bered the lay peers ; but the mitred abbots disappeared at the Reformation, when the monasteries were suppressed, and the 122 THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT number of lay peers was gradually increased by the creation of new peerages, whilst, after the sixteenth century, no new bishoprics were created for two hundred years. Further, when, in the nineteenth century, the creation of new bishop- rics became common, it was provided that an increase in their number should not increase the number of episcopal peers in Parliament.
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