Instead he held the post of examiner to the prerogative court.

On 1 August 1837 the judge at the Prerogative court rejected the challenge.

His will was proved in the prerogative court of the archbishop of Canterbury.

He died in 1441, and his will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

Substantial landowners tended to by-pass the administrative system by using the prerogative courts at Canterbury and York.

A prerogative court is a court through which the discretionary powers, privileges, and legal immunities reserved to the sovereign were exercised.

It was proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 27 August of the same year.

Elizabeth died about 1720, her will being dated 26 September was proved in the prerogative court in Cork in the following year.

Laud used his authority over the prerogative courts to humiliate the gentry, who were largely Puritan and Presbyterian.

By a patent confirmed on 15 July 1571 he was constituted joint-keeper of the prerogative court of Canterbury.

From February 1852 he was judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury until the abolition of this jurisdiction on 9 December 1857.

On the vacancy of the archdiocese of Canterbury in 1500, he became commissary of the chapter and of the prerogative court.

In 1576 Lewin was appointed a Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, a position he held until his death.

William Laud used his authority over the prerogative courts to punish many people, including Puritan martyr Willia Prynne.

Ann, who married George Ryves (younger brother of William), a judge of the prerogative court and one of the masters of the chancery-in-ordinary.

"Abstracts of Probate Acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Supplement.

As part of his duties as governor, Williamson served as the judge of the Prerogative Court of New Jersey.

Hough was elected President in 1687, but was then officially replaced by Parker, after the prerogative Court of Ecclesiastical Commission was brought into the matter.

His will in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury referred to him as though he were accorded the accolade of a British knight, viz.:

Carroll continued to practice law, making a small income from cases argued in the two courts where Catholics were still allowed to practice law, the chancery and prerogative courts.

All of the open census records have been digitised, and there are also significant other sources online, such as wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1858.

In 1641 Duck contested the appointment of Sir William Meyrick as judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury, unsuccessfully.

Sovereign court (cour souveraine), also known as superior court (cour supérieure) from 1661, referred to any prerogative court of last resort in monarchical France.

Prerogative courts included the Court of the Exchequer, the Court of Chancery, and the Court of the Star Chamber.

In 1650-51, he visited England to prove at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury the will of Thomas Nelson, husband of his niece Joane.