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- noun Obsolete spelling of
bishop .
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Examples
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Consecrate byshop yai made h [~y] her off Lyndisfarne both far and nere.
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Next to the Byshop of S. Andrewes, the bishop of Dumblane, the byshop of Murray, the Abbot of Dunfermling, the Abbot of Glenluce, wyth other Churchmen of lower estimation, as the Official of S. Andrewes and other Doctours of that nest and Citie.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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And byshop was of Hereford, where he doth now remaine;
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I sent by goodman Thurp of Salford my great letter to the byshop of Lincolne, and one to Mr. Shallcross.
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts John Dee 1567
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Before the tyme come you go aboute this, to haue your sonne a byshop, or an abbot, and wylt thou not fashion hym to this well, to beare the office of a byshop, or an abbot?
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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The byshop also 'of Carleile theim among In Westmynster, his life there to prolonge.
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