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Identifier: medivalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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p theso-called Constitutions of Clarendon (1164), which among otherthings provided that persons in orders accused of crime should betried by the kings judges, if these judges deemed the cases tobe such as should come before them, and that no case should beappealed from the courts of the archbishops to the Pope withoutthe kings consent. Thomas, after some hesitation, swore to observe the Consti-tutions, but soon he repented having done so, and sought andobtained from the Pope release from his oath. He maintained 1 Charlemagne had recognized the principle, held from early times by the Church,that ecclesiastics should be amenable only to the ecclesiastical tribunals, by freeing thewhole body of the clergy from the jurisdiction of the temporal courts, in criminal aswell as in civil cases. Gradually the bishops acquired the right to try all cases relatingto marriage, trusts, perjury, simony, or concerning widows, orphans, and crusaders, onthe ground that such cases had to do with religion.
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§189) MARTYRDOM OF THOMAS BECKET 179

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