They pay likewise subsidies with the temporalty, but in such sort that if these pay after four shillings for land, the clergy contribute commonly after six shillings of the pound, so that of a benefice of twenty pounds by the year the incumbent thinketh himself well acquitted if, all ordinary payments being discharged, he may reserve thirteen pounds six shillings eightpence towards his own sustentation or maintenance of his family. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
The two acts for the pardon of the spiritualty and temporalty were passed concurrently. From Wordnik.com. [Henry VIII.] Reference
The king is ruled by a common ---- Anne Boleyn, who has made all the spiritualty to be beggared, and the temporalty also. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference
It held good certainly in theory, and to a great extent in practice, against the temporalty as much as against the spiritualty. From Wordnik.com. [Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890] Reference
But all the temporalty, I dare be bold. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6] Reference
"Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an Empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one supreme head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown of the same, unto whom a body politic compact of all sorts and degrees of people, divided in terms and by names of spiritualty and temporalty being bounden and owen to bear next to. From Wordnik.com. [The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson] Reference
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