Episcopus Puerorum
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
It was an old custom that upon certain feasts some lay person should plait his hair, and pat on the garments of a bishop, and in them pretend to exercise episcopal jurisdiction, and do seycustom obtained in England long after several constitutions were made to abolish it. lount. Episcopus teneat placitum, in curia christianitatis, de lis que mere sunt spiritualia.. 12 Coke, 44. <A bishop may hold plea in a Court Christian of things merely spiritual.