Also 5 Sc. wnbyschoppyt. [UN-1 8.]

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  1.  Not blessed or confirmed by a bishop.

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a. 970.  Canons Edgar, c. 15. And we lærað … þæt æniʓ man to lange unbiscopod ne wurðe.

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a. 1023.  Wulfstan, Hom. (1883), 120. We lærað, þæt man æniʓne ne læte unbiscpod [v.r. unbiscopod] to lange.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 208. Al so as … longe beon unbishoped, & falsliche igon to schrifte.

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c. 1470.  Henry, Wallace, VII. 549. Wnbyschoppyt ȝeit, for suth I trow ye be: Your selff sall fyrst his blyssyng tak for me.

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[1844.  Lingard, Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858), I. vii. 298, note. That no man remain unbishoped too long.]

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  2.  Not consecrated as a bishop.

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1601.  F. Godwin, Bps. of Eng., 373. Much against his will he died vnbishopped twelue daies after his nomination.

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