Historical Memorials of Northampton: Taken Chiefly From Unprinted Records
Historical Memorials of Northampton: Taken Chiefly From Unprinted Records
Charles Henry Hartshorne
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Parliaments were not in fact identified with the more ancient foims of ttie British government. This Will enable tts a;t once to pa«s over, without discussion, the conferences held here between Robert duke of Normandy and his brother Henry I. ; the settlement of the suc- cession by the latter prince upon his daughter COUNCILS HBLD AT NORTHAMPTON. 149 Maud; the coancil l^eld both by Stephen and Bichard I, ; the conypntjpn jx) try the traitorous k Becket, and the ratification of the Constitutions... of Clarendon. Each of these, historically interest- ing, deserves more attention than the present oc- casion will suffice to afford, but none taken by itself involves directly any point of sufficient con- stitutional importance for us to pursue its exami- nation further". a Of the councils held at Northampton, the following are the principal. In 1131, a great curia, placitum, or council, at which were present all the "Principes Angliae." In 1157, a convention of the Prasules, Principes regni, eight bishops, twelve abbots, and many other foreign and English nobility, and "infe- rioris ordinis personse." In 1157, as we are informed by Gervase, (p.
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