 | Daniel Fenning - 1763 - 1004 pages
...with lead, and of the fame nature with the edias of fecular princes. The féal prefents on one lid с the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other, the name of the pope, and the year of his pontificate. BULL, Ad), in compofilion, like the ptrlicle... | |
 | Joseph Guy - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1810 - 548 pages
...pendent lead or seal, which is properly speaking the bull, and which is impressed on one side, with the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other, with the name of the pope. The bull is written in an old round gothic letter. Besides the lead hanging... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 462 pages
...sealed with lead ; which seal is, properly speaking', the bull itself. Tt is impressed on one side with the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other with the name of the pope, and the year of his pontificate. i BULL, Golden so called because the seal... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 pages
...penitent lead, or seal, which is, properly speaking, the bull, and which is impressed on one side •with the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other with the name of the pope and the year of his pontificate. The bull is written in an old, round, Gothic... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...lead is bung by a hempen, if the latter, by a silken thread. This lead is impressed on one side with the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul ; and on the other with the name of the pope, and the year of his pontificate. The bull is written in a round Gothic letter.... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1833 - 980 pages
...pendent lead, or seal, which is, properly speaking, the Bull, and which is impressed on one side with the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other with the name of the Pope, and the year of his pontificate. The Bull is written in an old round Gothic... | |
 | Thomas Anthony Trollope - Christianity - 1834 - 630 pages
...This pendant lead or seal, which is properly the bull or ornament, bears the impression on one side of the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope and the year of his pontificate. It always contains a five-fold division. 1. The... | |
 | John D'Alton - Dublin (Ireland : County) - 1838 - 960 pages
...cord, in the latter by a silken thread. This pendent lead or seal bears the impression on one side of the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other of the name of the pope and the year of his pontificate. Besides the seal or lead, they have usually... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1842 - 218 pages
...lead is hung by a hempen, if the latter, by a silken thread. This lead is impressed on one side by the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and, on the other, with the name of the Pope and the year of his pontificate. The bull is written in a round Gothic letter.... | |
 | Political dictionary - 1845 - 916 pages
...The bulls are always on parchment, and sealed with a pendent seal of lead or green wax, representing on one side the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the reverse the name of the pope and the year of his pontificate : their name comes from the Latin " bulla,"... | |
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Bull, and which is impressed on one side with the heads of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other with the name of the Pope, and the year of his pontificate. 
