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Rh *presbyteratus:—priesthood.
 * presbyterium:—priesthood; a presbytery; the choir of a church.
 * presentum:—a present, a gift.
 * primitiare:—to begin.
 * princeps:—a prince.
 * principalium:—an heirloom; a mortuary.
 * principatus:—principality.
 * principissa:—a princess.
 * principium burgi:— a town hall.
 * prior:—a monastic officer, next to the abbot in an abbey, head of a priory.
 * prioratus:—a priory.
 * priorissa:—a prioress.
 * prisa:—a prize; booty; a fine; prisage.
 * prisagium:—prisage, a share of prizes; a right of taking prizes; a duty on wine and provisions.
 * prisalia:—reprisals.
 * prisia:—prisage.
 * priso:—a prisoner of war; a prison; imprisonment.
 * prisona:—a prison.
 * prisonare:—to keep in prison.
 * prisonarius:—a prisoner.
 * privatus:—privy.
 * privicarnium:—fasting; Lent.
 * privilegiare:—to grant a privilege to.
 * proaula:—a porch.
 * probare:—used for propriare.
 * probaticus:—connected with sheep.
 * probator:—an accuser; an approver.
 * probatum:—a sheep.
 * probi homines:—good men, an elected body of citizens forming a common council.
 * proceres:—ornamental heads of beams on house fronts.
 * Processio:—Rogation week.
 * processionale:—a book containing directions for and music to be used in processions, the service for gangdays, litanies, or intercessions.
 * proclamator: —a crier; in the Court of Common Pleas, proclamator.
 * proconsul:—a justice in eyre.
 * procuratio:—procuration, a payment, originally in victuals, by the inferior clergy to bishop or archdeacon at visitations; a proxy; necessaries, as food and clothing; a meal.
 * procurator:—a proctor.
 * procuratorium:—procurator; a proxy.
 * proditio:—treason.
 * proditionaliter:—treasonably.
 * profectus:—profit.
 * profestum:—the eve of a feast.
 * proficum:—profit.
 * profrum:—profer, time appointed tor officers to make their accounts.
 * promarius:—a waiter.
 * promtorium, promptuarium:—a buttery; a storehouse.
 * propalare:—to publish.