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The record of the proceedings of one of the most important of these courts -- that of the Swabian League's jurisdiction, which sat at Memmingen -- in the dispute between the prince-abbot of Kempten and his villeins is given in full in Baumann's
German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890
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More than a year was spent discussing the issue, and it is recorded that Tsunayoshi appealed to the prince-abbot of Ueno in order to secure his intervention in the cause of leniency.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Wikipedia: A cleric who is a Prince of the Church in the sense of an ex officio temporal lord of an area that is ruled by the head of an abbey.
September 16, 2008