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CLARENCEUX

Volume 17 · 141 words · 1810 Edition

the second king at arms, so called from the duke of Clarence, to whom he first belonged; for Lionel, 3rd 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 descending 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 *surroy* or *south-roy*, 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 Clarendon greatly narrowed the total exemption they claimed from secular jurisdiction.