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Title: Lingard's History of England, newly abridged and brought down to the accession of King George v
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Lingard, John, 1771-1851 Birt, Henry Norbert, 1861-1919
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Publisher: London, G. Bell & sons, ltd.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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who had accompanied him from France. A fewdays were given to the festivities and pageantry usual on suchoccasions; but, at the same time, the new king did not forget themore important concerns of state. In one council, he appointedthe great officers of the crown; in another, he confirmed to hissubjects all the rights and liberties which they had possessedduring the reign of his grandfather; and in a third, he induced go HENRY II 1154- the barons and prelates to swear fealty to his eldest son William,and, in the event of Williams death, to his second son Henry, achild still in the cradle. The earl of Leicester was appointed grand justiciar, with themost ample powers : a new coinage was issued of standard weight and purity ; and the foreign mercenaries, who had soMeasures of j^j^g infested England, received orders to quit thereign. kingdom by a certain day, under the penalty of death. Henry exerted himself to curb the power ofthe barons, and compelled Malcolm, king of Scots, to exchange
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Sr^aii/j i. il. a.i it. uit/u the three northern counties, which had been so long in possessionof his grandfather David, for the earldom of Huntingdon, to whichthe Scottish princes advanced a claim on account of their descentfrom earl Waltheof. 11^9 THOMAS A BECJCET, CHANCELLOR 91 The same month which had witnessed the coronation ofHenry, had been signalized by the succession of Nicholas Break-speare to the throne of the Vatican. This prelate, the onlyEnglishman who ever sate in the chair of St. Peter, had beenraised by his merit from one of the lowest situations in life to thatwhich was deemed the highest dignity in Christendom. He wasthe son of Robert Chambers, an obscure clerk, and afterwardsmonk of St. Albans, and had been rejected by the abbot of thatmonastery on the ground of incapacity. Stung with this disgrace,and the reproaches of his father, he travelled to Paris without anyother resource than the alms of the charitable; studied withapplause in that university, and wandering

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