Sentence:  Can the pope, to say nothing of himself and his cardinals, do away with his four archbishops and ninety-eight bishops? Will he reduce the prodigious number of his priests, who muster as strong as one twenty-eighth of the population? Will he <WSD>uncowl</WSD> his monks, two thousand and twenty-three of whom swarm about the streets of Rome alone? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To divest or deprive of a cowl (monk's hood or hooded robe).