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CLARENDON

Volume 6 · 51 words · 1842 Edition

Constitutions of certain constitutions made in the reign of Henry II. a.d. 1164, in a parliament held at Clarendon, by which the king checked the power of the pope and his clergy, and greatly narrowed the total exemption they claimed from secular jurisdiction.

Clarendon, Earl of. See HYDE.

CLARET. See WINE.