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Clarendon

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Clarendon, Edward Hyde
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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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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Clarendon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/clarendon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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