As the first settlers of Massachusetts, whether Puritan or Pilgrim, had fled away from prelacy, so their spiritual descendants still hated the name of bishop.
"The Siege of Boston"
Allen French
But it had undergone such alterations in the year 1334, during the prelacy of the twenty-seventh abbot, William Gemblet, that little of the original structure remained.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
Under the prelacy of Hellouin, Bec increased rapidly in celebrity, and consequently in the number of its inmates: it was principally indebted for this increase to an accidental circumstance.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner