Often, however, one or more younger sons were encouraged to take clerical orders, thereby forfeiting all rights of inheritance.

It is said that their fury extended itself to a party of students for clerical orders, who had imprudently come to see the battle.

He was one of many thousands who, while members of the privileged clerical order, were emotionally committed to its destruction.

But what is important is that the clerical order did not expand to provide these services itself in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Other than his architectural gift, the only remarkable thing about Gerhard was that his four grown children followed him into the clerical order.

Lord George Grey, entered clerical orders; nothing further is known about him.

As he was not usually in clerical orders, his responsibilities were mainly temporal.

Societies and clerical orders were founded for the purpose of freeing Christian slaves.

In a vote by orders, the votes of the clerical and lay orders are counted separately.

Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level.