a1661 T. Fuller (1662) Wales 11 Landaff..lay Bishopless for three years.
1838 18 546 The doctor was totally ignorant of this custom, ours being a bishopless land.
1909 G. T. S. Farquhar I. xiii. 142 During this the darkest period of all there were no Ordinations for the Diocese. There was, however, one for Bishopless Edinburgh.