ish People_.

[5] "For as long as any one in all the land was said to hold any power
except through him, even in the things of God, it seemed to him that the
royal dignity was diminished."--EADMER, _Life of Anselm_.

[6] See Palgrave's _History of Normandy and England_.

[7] "A martyr he clearly was, not merely to the privileges of the Church or
to the rights of the See of Canterbury, but to the general cause of law and
order as opposed to violence."--FREEMAN, _Historical Essays_.

[8] _See_ Campbell's _Lives of the Chancellors_.

[9] F. York Powell, _England to 1509_.

"Ecclesiastical privileges were not so exclusively priestly privileges as
we sometimes fancy. They sheltered not only ordained ministers, but all
ecclesiastical officers of every kind; the Church courts also claimed
jurisdiction in the causes of widows and orphans. In short, the privileges
for which Thomas contended transferred a large part of the people, and that
the most helpless part, from the bloody grasp of the King's courts to the
milder jurisdiction of the bishop."--FREEMAN, _Historical Essays_.

[10] Walter of Coventry. (Rolls Series.)

[11] Roger of Wendover. (Rolls Series.)

[12] "Clause by clause the rights of the commons are provided for as well
as the rights of the nobles; the interest of the freeholder is everywhere
coupled with that of the barons and knights; the stock of the merchant and
the wainage of the villein are preserved from undue severity of amercement
as well as the settled estate of the earldom or barony. The knight is
protected against the compulsory exaction of his services, and the horse
and cart of the freeman against the irregular requisition even of the
sheriff."--STUBBS, _Constitutional History_.

[13] "Quod Anglicana Ecclesia libera sit."--_Magna Charta_, I.

[14] "This most important provision may be regarded as a summing-up of the
history of Parliament so far as it can be said yet to exist. It probably
contains nothing which had not been for a long time in theory a part of the
Constitution: the kings had long consulted their council on taxation; that
council consisted of the elements that are here specified. But the right
had never yet been stated in so clear a form, and the statement thus made
seems to have startled even the barons.... It was for the attainment of
this right that the struggles of the reign of Henry III. were carried on;
and the realisation of the claim was deferred until the reign of his
s