• A prolocutor is a chairman of some ecclesiastical assemblies in Anglicanism. In the Church of England, the Prolocutor is chair of the lower house of the...
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  • first person recorded as having presided over Parliament as a parlour or prolocutor, an office now known as Speaker of the House of Commons. He was one of...
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  • 1377, the Speaker was referred to by terms such as the parlour and the prolocutor. Some of them presided, and Peter de Montfort and Peter de la Mare were...
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    in a Paper Lately Published, Intituled, A Letter to the Reverend the Prolocutor: Being an Answer to a Paper, &c. By the Author of that Letter at Google...
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    formally known as the Speaker, having previously been referred to as the prolocutor or parlour (a semi-official position, often nominated by the monarch,...
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    tolls". In 1624, he became vicar of St Dunstan-in-the-West, and in 1625 a prolocutor to Charles I. He earned a reputation as an eloquent preacher. 160 of his...
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  • presiding officer of the House of Commons was initially known as the "Prolocutor" and sometimes as the Parlour, but the term most often used was "Speaker"...
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    in Oxford. Early presiding officers were known by the title parlour or prolocutor. The continuous history of the office of speaker is held to date from...
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    1363, and, usually after 1368, by the lord chancellor who was then the prolocutor, or chairman of the House of Lords. It was given on his[clarification...
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    that I may in this case glorify God by that kind of death'; to which the prolocutor replied, 'If you go to heaven in this faith, then I will never come hither...
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    festivity, amusement, or play. In the opening lines of The Pride of Life, the Prolocutor uses the word game when asking his audience to listen attentively, stating...
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  • and France. Foxe served as the king's almoner c. 1532 – 1537, and as prolocutor of convocation in April 1533 when it decided against the validity of Henry's...
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  • Paul Foster Case in Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.), Davies served as Prolocutor General until her death in 1975. She expanded the curriculum of the school...
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    would later evolve into Parliament, the lord chancellor becoming the prolocutor of its upper house, the House of Lords. As was confirmed by a statute...
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    The court normally consists of the dean, two clerks appointed by the prolocutor of the lower house of the appropriate convocation and two lay people appointed...
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  • Viron on the Whorl. Patera Remora, from The Book of the Long Sun, the Prolocutor of New Viron. Daisy, Hoof's eventual wife, who writes the last pages of...
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    principal is usually a lieutenant colonel of the Bangladesh Army. The prolocutor of the governing body is the station commander of Jalalabad Cantonment...
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  • officers, elected at each General Synod, are the Prolocutor and the Deputy Prolocutor. The Prolocutor acts as the chief deputy to the Primate, and the...
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    1646) was a prominent English clergyman and theologian. He was named Prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly in an Ordinance dated 12 June 1643, putting...
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  • judicial office. Two members of each court must be clergy appointed by the Prolocutor of the Lower House of the provincial convocation. Two further members...
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  • Cheltenham from 1941 to 1948; and Vicar of Hambridge from 1948 to 1959. He was Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation of Canterbury from 1955 to 1970; a Director...
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  • president of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship from 1939 until his death, and prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation of Canterbury from 1955 to 1956. Christianity...
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  • of Derby in 1515, then as Royal Ambassador to Burgundy and France and Prolocutor of Convocation. In 1516, he was appointed Archdeacon of Buckingham, and...
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    Assembly's prolocutor or chairman. Due to Twisse's ill health, Cornelius Burges, whom Parliament appointed as one of several assessors, served as prolocutor pro...
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  • he was Rural Dean of Amersham and after his appointment as Archdeacon Prolocutor of the Lower house of the Convocation of Canterbury. Current Honorary...
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    king's presentation, but he resigned the post in 1670. In 1677, being now prolocutor of the Convocation of the English Clergy, he was unexpectedly advanced...
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  • surrender of some larger monasteries in the western English borders, and was Prolocutor of the lower house in three important Ecclesiastical Convocations of the...
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    William Twisse (1578–1646), who was elected as the first Prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly in 1643, and who held that position until his death....
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    Pro-Prolocutor of the Province of Canterbury of the General Synod in addition to his parish ministry until 2013, and again elected as Pro-Prolocutor in...
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    elected Deputy Prolocutor of the General Synod and at the General Synod in St. Catharines in 2004 and 2007, Elliott was elected Prolocutor of the General...
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