The History [of The] Life of King Henry the Second, and of the Age in which He Lived: 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 3

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Page 149 - ... odious colours of impiety and of tyranny on all thofe proceedings, in which the honour of his parliament, as well as his own, was concerned. It implied a condemnation of the conftitutions of Clarendon, which he had never yet given up.
Page 148 - ... of worfhip paid to him, were an impious hypocrify and mockery of God, which no policy could excufe. And that he did fo, may not unreafonably be inferred from his fubfequent conduct in many particulars, but more efpecially from fome words which Giraldus Cambrenfis affirms to have been fpoken by him after this time. He tells us, that William earl of Arundel and of Suflex (whofe father of the fame name had v- G.
Page 147 - ... a carpet to be fpread beneath him, but kneeling on the hard pavement. Early in the morning he went round all the altars of the church, and paid his devotions to the bodies of the...
Page 253 - ... his power according to the laws, and according to their oaths. During the interval between the parliament of Clarendon and that of Northampton, Henry the Second made a law, which deferves to be mentioned with particular praife, among the many beneficent acts of this reign.
Page 49 - ... or from the oppofition which the former has made to the latter ! In this inftance, the beft, or indeed the fole excufe, for the proceedings of either, was the favage ftate of the Irifh, to whom it might prove beneficial to be conquered, and broken thereby to the falutary difcipline of civil order and good laws.
Page 90 - ADU7I. marriages, and for the annulling of thofe which were inceftuous and illicite ; for the baptifing of children within the church, and the catechifing of them at the church-door ; for the burying of the dead, who had been duly confeft, with the proper rites and ceremonies ; and • finally, for the eftablifhment of an entire conformity in divine worfhip, and all matters relating thereunto, between England and Ireland. The abufe, which gave occafion to one of thefe canons, concerning the baptifm...
Page 221 - If acquitted by the ordeal, he was to ftay in the kingdom, finding fureties, unlefs he had been arraigned of murder, or any heinous felony, by the community of the county and of the lawful knights of his country ; in which cafe, though the ordeal had declared him innocent, he was neverthelefs to quit the realm within forty days, and take with him his chattels (faving the rights of his lords), and be at the mercy of the king whether he mould ever return or not.
Page 186 - ... deer; and from thence he went to York, where, on the tenth day of Auguft, he was attended by the king of Scotland, who brought thither with him all the bifhops, earls, barons, knights, and freeholders of his realm, from the greateft to the leaft, in order to their doing, together with himfelf, and earl David, his brother, liege homage to Henry, according to the articles of the treaty of peace concluded at Falaife. The caftles demanded, as fecurities for the full execution thereof, had been delivered...
Page 44 - Armagh, it had been held by p. 1937. eight fucceffive prelates, who were all married men. He adds that thefe prelates were not in holy orders, and (what is ftill more extraordinary) that this dignity had been, for fifteen generations, hereditary in the fame family. Malachy laboured more eagerly than any of his predeceflbrs to bring the church of Ireland to a nearer conformity with that of Rome ; for which merit he is placed in the Roman calendar as a faint. Before he attained to the primacy he was...
Page 174 - Scotland, and fubject it to that of England, which Henry required, as the fole condition of peace. Many of thefe were admitted to confer with their king in the caftle of Falaife, to which he had been removed from that of Caen ; and a great council of them affembled, on the eighth of December, at Valogne in the Cotentin, a province of Normandy, where they advifed him.

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