Protonotaries Sentence Examples

Only protonotaries and domestic prelates are for life; the others lose their dignity at the death of the pope who appointed them.

Hitherto the way had been blocked by a horde of protonotaries, dataries and other officials - purveyors of indulgences, dispensations and such-like spiritual favours - to whom reform spelt ruin.

After the protonotaries left the sketching of the minutes to the abbreviators, those de Farce majori, who ranked as prelates, were the most important officers of the apostolic chancery.