bishoprike

plural bishoprikes

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of bishopric.

   Thele ſhires bee deuided into 22. biſhoprikes, […]

   1590, John Stow, A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590

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   For thefe men ye ſe giue to one man not two benefices onely,but ſundry Abbaies many times, ſometime alſo two biſhoprikes, ſometime three,ſometime foure, and that not onely to an vnlearned man, but often times euen to a man of warre.

   1565, Thomas Harding, A Confvtation of a Booke intitvled An Apologie of the Chvrch of England, Ihon Laet, page 246