the second king at arms, so called from the duke of Clarence, to whom he first belonged; for Lionel, 3d son to Edward III, having by his wife the honour of Clare in the county of Thomond, was afterwards declared duke of Clarence; which dukedom afterwards escheated to Edward IV. He made this earl a king at arms. His office is to marshal and dispose of the funerals of all the lower nobility, as baronets, knights, esquires, on the south side of the Trent; whence he is sometimes called Surrey or Southroy, in contradistinction to norroy.

CLARENDON (Constitutions of), certain constitutions made in the reign of Henry II. A.D. 1164, in a parliament held at Clarendon; whereby the king checked the power of the Pope and his clergy, and greatly narrowed the total exemption they claimed from secular jurisdiction.