Meaning of protectorship | Babel Free

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The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.

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“c.1754–61, David Hume, The History of England: From the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, 1823, Volume 1, page 409, Henry, being so far recovered from his distemper as to carry⟳ the appearance of exercising the royal power; they moved him to resume his authority [1455], to annul the protectorship of the duke, to release⟳ Somerset from the Tower,²³ and to commit the administration into the hands of that nobleman.”

“The one Irish provision which would have⟳ thrown the most light⟳ on Piccolomini's role would have⟳ been that to Tuam, the only one of the four metropolitan sees to fall⟳ vacant during Piccolomini's protectorship.”

“Yet though Richard was moving quickly on a wide front of action in these first days of his protectorship, his measures reveal⟳ almost nothing about the political complexion of the council, about what was going om in the minds of the councilors who on May 5 had rushed with such happy unanimity to harness themselves to the chariot of the protectorship.”

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