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The talk went that old Dr. Eales, you mind him, sir, before he died, came out and held a prelatist service, begging your pardon, sir, and that the things were used.

From Under the Storm by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

For nothing disgusted the rigid Covenanter more than the reverence paid by the prelatist to the ancient holidays of the Church.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

He is a prelatist, who has sought the camp under the disguise of an Erastian, and all, and more than all, that has been said of him must needs be verity.

From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Scott, Walter, Sir

As I live, 'tis the young prelatist who bowed himself down in the house of Rimmon!

From Under the Storm by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

"I have saved this prelatist and malignant from his adversaries, and now"——He considered a while, muttering his thoughts and arguments to himself with a most confused and volatile impetuosity of ratiocination.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John