Clarence, Lionel, Duke of, ii. 264, 293, 302 Clarence, Thomas, Duke of, iii. 24, 26, 36 Clarendon, Assize of, i. 238; Constitutions of, 235; Council of, _ib._ Clarendon, Edward Hyde, first Earl of (_see_ Hyde), vi. 193; Lord Chancellor, _ib._, 205; his political theory, 205-207; his foreign policy, 213-215; relations with Charles II., 221; advises a dissolution, 241; banished, 243; his _History of the Rebellion_, v. 72; _Life_, vi. 157 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, second Earl of, vii. 20, 76 Clark, John, iii. 262 Clarkson, Thomas, viii. 48 Clement IV., Pope, ii. 18 Clement V., Pope, ii. 172 Clement VI., Pope, ii. 229, 236 Clement VII., Pope, iii. 249; prisoner, 269; escapes, 272; dealings with Henry VIII.'s divorce, 271, 272, 274, 275, 277, 278; threatens Henry with excommunication, 302; annuls Cranmer's proceedings, 304; refuses to hold a Council, iv. 20 Clement VIII., Pope, iv. 372 Clément, Jacques, iv. 368 Clergy, their privileges, i. 234; attacked by Henry II., 235-237; papal demands on, ii. 27, 28, 42, 222; relations with Edward I., 118, 120, 163; summoned to Parliament, 157; cease to attend, 158; strife of regular and secular, 295; bondage to Pope and king, _ib._, 296; decay of their moral influence, 296, 297; excluded from state offices, 302; attacked by John of Gaunt and Wyclif, 308; decline of their influence, iii. 96, 97; Wolsey's struggle with, 246; Thomas Cromwell's policy towards, 295; charged with breach of Præmunire, 296; submission, 297; their enslavement, 301, 302, 311, 312; allowed to marry, iv. 49; their five articles of 1559, 156, 157; Elizabeth's dealings with, 161, 162; their position and character in her reign, 302-304; growth of Puritanism among, 340; v. 89, 90; required to subscribe all the Articles, 156; struggle with James II., vii. 18, 19, 24, 30; condition under the Georges, 171, 172; character in the eighteenth century, viii. 47; Puritan, expelled, iv. 342; v. 156; Laud's dealings with, 295-297; their final expulsion, vi. 209; its results, 210-213; their sufferings, 222, 223 Cleveland, Barbara Palmer, duchess of (_see_ Castlemaine), vi. 175 Cleves, quarrel about, v. 178 _Clericis Laicos_, bull, ii. 163 Clifford, Thomas, eighth Lord, iii. 74 Clifford, John, ninth Lord, iii. 78 Clifford, Sir Thomas (first Lord Clifford of Chudleigh), commissioner of the Treasury, vi. 245, 261; Lord Treasurer, 271; resigns, 274 Clinton, Sir Henry, viii. 32 Clive, Robert, vii. 233; seizes Arcot, 235; victory at Plassey, 261, 262 Clonmell stormed by Cromwell, vi. 79 Closter-Seven, Convention of, vii. 249, 262 Clydesdale, persecution of Catholics in, iv. 218 Cnihtenagild at Aldgate, i. 223, 299 Cnut, king of Denmark, i. 143; of England, 143-147