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From Kings’ Letters: From the Days of Alfred to the Coming of the Tutors Vol. I, Edited by Robert Steele; Alexander Moring, The De La More Press; London; 1900; p. 9.

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YEAR 1164 A. D.

Henry II to the Bishops1

You are not ignorant, reverend fathers, of the injurious treatment which I and my kingdom have received from Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, and how basely he has fled the country. I command you, therefore, to cause all his clerks who remained with him, after his flight, and all others who have acted in a manner derogatory to myself or my kingdom, to be prevented from receiving any of the proceeds of their benefices in your diocese without my permission, and that you give no countenance or support whatever to the aforesaid clerks.

Witness, Richard de Lucy, at Marlborough.


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NOTES

1.  Henry II to the Bishops (1164). Latin. Robertson, v. 151, trans. Giles.





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