_F. W. Maitland, Henry II. and the Criminous Clerks (English Historical Review, April, 1892), pages 224-226._ The Assize of Clarendon, sometimes confused with the Constitutions of Clarendon, was an important decree approved two years later. It laid down the principles on which the administration of justice was to be carried out, in twenty-two articles drawn up for the use of the judges. _Mrs. J. R Green, Henry the Second, chapters 5-6._ {801} "It may not be without instruction to remember that the Constitutions of Clarendon, which Becket spent his life in opposing, and of which his death procured the suspension, are now incorporated in the English law, and are regarded, without a dissentient voice, as among the wisest and most necessary of English institutions; that the especial point for which he surrendered his life was not the independence of the clergy from the encroachments of the Crown, but the personal and now forgotten question of the superiority of the see of Canterbury to the see of York." _A. P. Stanley, Historical Memorials of Canterbury, page 124._ ALSO IN: _W. Stubbs, Constitutional History of England, chapter 12, sections 139-141._ _W. Stubbs, Select Charters, part 4._ _J. C. Robertson, Becket._ _J. A. Giles, Life and Letters of Thomas à Becket._ _R. H. Froude, History of the Contest between Archbishop Thomas à Becket and Henry II. (Remains, part 2, volume 2)._ _J. A. Froude, Life and Times of Thomas Becket._ _C. H. Pearson, History of England during the Early and Middle Ages, volume 1, chapter 29._ See, also, BENEFIT OF CLERGY, and JURY, TRIAL BY. ENGLAND: A. D. 1189. Accession of King Richard I. (called Cœur de Lion). ENGLAND: A. D. 1189-1199. Reign of Richard Cœur de Lion. His Crusade and campaigns in France.