CLERGY
A Law Dictionary · 1910 · p. 6
The whole body of clergymen K or ministers of religion. Also an abbreviation for "benefit of clergy." See BENEFIT. -Regular clergy. In old English law. Monks who lived secundum regulas (according to the r.Zes) of their respective houses or societies were so denominated, in contradistinction to L the parochial clergy, who performed their ministry in the world, in seculo, and who from thence were called "secular" clergy. 1 Chit. BJ. 387, note., [s. 213]
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