Identifier: countiesofenglan01ditc (find matches)
Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sfeudal village at its foot. In 1095 William Rufussummoned a council at Rockingham, which was of far-reaching importance in English history. Grasping andviolent, he had against his will been urged by the noblesto appoint the learned and pious Anselm to the Arch-bishopric of Canterbury. Thus he gladly seized on thepretext of charging Anselm with disloyalty, as the latterclaimed to be invested by the Pope with the Pallium. Atthe Council was fought the question of royal supremacyin matters ecclesiastical as against the foreign authorityof the Pope. The King was eventually obliged to yieldto the wishes of the clergy and laity, who sided withAnselm, but it was not till some years after that a com-promise was effected. The Red Kings dispute withAnselm and that of Henry II. with Thomas a Becketwere the two most important crises of the Church ofEngland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. At Northampton Henry I. called the baronage to 1 Barnwell and Rockingham are the only two which remain.
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Sir Thomas Tresham. Northamptonshire 193 swear fealty to his daughter Maud (probably on the highaltar of All Saints Church); and here, too, Stephencalled his first council to receive the allegiance of themen who had previously sworn to his cousin. Henry II.salmost annual visits when in England mark his senseof its position; but of all the royal councils held there,the Great Council of 1164 stands out as the mostdramatic scene of the Kings vital conflict with Becket. The town was thronged with people of eminencewhen Becket, with his following of armed knights, madehis way, amid a noise of cheering, to St. AndrewsPriory. Next morning he celebrated the Mass ofSt. Stephen, of which the opening words are: Sederuntprincipes et adversum me loquebantur ( Princes alsodid sit and speak against me). He then set forth, infull pontificals, to meet the Court, having his crosscarried before him by Alexander the Welshman. Herode through the gate of the castle, and got off his horseat the door of the

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