Proles

Issue; offspring; progeny. It may mean any children; but is frequently used, according to Bouvier and Burrill, in the stricter sense of issue of a lawful marriage. officer chosen by ecclesiastical persons publicly assembled in convocation by virtue of the sovereign's writ. At every parliament there are two prolocutors, — one of the higher house of convocation, the other of the lower house; the latter of whom is chosen by the lower house, and presented to the bishops of the" higher house as their prolocutor, — that is, the person by whom the lower house of convocation intend to deliver their resolutions to the lower house, and have their own house especially ordered and governed. His office is to cause the clerk to caU the names of such as are of that house, when he sees cause; to read all things propounded, gather suffrages, &c.

Wharton.