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Clarendon, Constitutions of
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Clarendon, Constitutions of

In English history, a series of resolutions agreed by a council summoned by Henry II at Clarendon in Wiltshire in 1164. The Constitutions forbade the church to convict laymen on secret information, and demanded that clergy accused of a felony be tried in the royal courts. The Constitutions aimed at limiting the secular power of the clergy, and were abandoned after the murder of Thomas à Becket.



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