bishopstooln.
/ˈbɪʃəpstuːl/ The throne, seat, or see of a bishop. Obsolete since 13th cent., but taken up by some recent historical writers.
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c1065 Chart. Eadweard in Cod. Dipl. IV. 197 Ðe ðone bisceopstol gestaðeloðon.
a1300 Old Eng. Misc. 145 Wes..imaked þer [at Bath] Bisscop stol.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. App. 604 The Bishop had his see, his Bishopstool, in some particular church.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) i. §3. 31 The old bishop-stool of the West-Saxons had been established..at..Dorchester.
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