Clarendon

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The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]

A place 2 m. SE. of Salisbury, where the magnates of England, both lay and clerical, met in 1164 under Henry II. and issued a set of ordinances, called the Constitutions of Clarendon , 16 in number, to limit the power of the Church and assert the rights of the crown in ecclesiastical affairs.

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