The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in which He Lived: In Five Books ; to which is Prefixed, a History of the Revolutions of England from the Death of Edward the Confessor to the Birth of Henry the Second, Volume 4

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Page 30 - ... nor shall the lands of any of them be put under an interdict, unless application shall first have been made to our lord the king, if he be in the kingdom, or if he be out of the kingdom, to his...
Page 90 - Third, whereby it came to pass that almost every offence that was, or seemed to be, a breach of the faith and allegiance due to the king, was by CONSTRUCTION, CONSEQUENCE, and INTERPRETATION, raised into the offence of high treason.
Page 362 - Yet the ftrength of his underftanding, his converfation in courts and camps, among perfons whofe notions were more free and enlarged, the different colour of his former life^ and the fuddennefs of the change which feemed to be wrought in him upon his election to Canterbury, would make one...
Page 356 - Fitzurfe himfelf, as having been prefent. But that gentleman conftantly denied that he had heard it, or any thing like it, and urged the great improbability that the king fhould have confented to give up his friends to Becket's revenge for what they did by his orders.
Page 30 - ... by the trial of twelve lawful men, whether the tenement belongs to frank almoigne, or is a lay fee ; and if it be found to be frank almoigne, then it...
Page 353 - Qi!adrll°honored the whole royal family, had driven him and his children from the throne, and triumphed there unrefifted ; and, that he was very unfortunate...
Page 362 - The continual praifes of thofe with whom he acted, the honors done him in his exile by all the clergy of France, and the vanity which appears fo predominant in his mind, may have conduced to operate fuch a change. He certainly...
Page 83 - Churches belonging to the fee of our lord the king cannot be given away in perpetuity, without the consent and grant of the king.
Page 31 - ... citation, it is allowable to put him under an interdict ; but he ought not to be excommunicated before the king's chief officer of the town be applied to, that he may, by due course of law, compel him to answer accordingly ; and if the king's officer...
Page 32 - ... our lord the king ought to send for the principal clergy of that church, and the election ought to be made in the king's chapel, with the...

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