English statutes passed in 1164 limiting the powers of the church.
English statutes passed in 1164 limiting the powers of the church.
See Clarendon.
The constitutions of Clarendon were certain statutes made in the reign of Henry II. of England, at a parliament held at Clarendon, (A. D. 1164,) by which the king checked the power of the pope and his clergy, and greatly narrowed the exemption they claimed from secular jurisdiction. 4 Bl. Comm. 422,