Bible Encyclopedias
Tulchan Bishops
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Bishops appointed in Scotland by James VI. to draw the Church revenues for his behoof in part, a tulchan being "a calf-skin stuffed into the rude similitude of a calf" to induce the cow to give her milk freely; "so of the bishops, which the Scotch lairds were glad to construct and make the milk come without disturbance."
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Tulchan Bishops'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​t/tulchan-bishops.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.