A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 22

shelter from the fashionable man splashes about;  and it gathered the occasion to
you widen his/her jurisdiction, magnifies his/her law, you exalt his/her rights, and
affirms that to him the right it belonged for mainly electing and to depose
sovereign. Greater anchor would have been its services to the civilization,
if you/he/she had been able to affirm a power to put down the barons from
their castles and raising the peasantry from their servitude.

Liberation could only come from real power, and in Henry II, Matilda
child, Anjou gave to England a greater king that Normandy had done in
William the Bastard. Even if a foreigner that dominated an enormous continental
empire and exhausted but a fraction of his/her days on this side of the
You irrigate, he sustains second to none of the creators of England. He shaped the
I govern that beat together the structure of a national state.
He gathered on before, such fragments of real authority as survived the
anarchy;  then, with the conservative instincts and pretenses of a
radical, he looked for around precedents in the the customs of his
grandfather, proclaiming his/her intention to restore the good person old laws. This
reaction raised him against the abuses of the church, and
the unlucky accident of the murder of Becket damaged the success of
The efforts of Henry to establish the real supremacy. But this supremacy owes
is not exaggerated. Henry didn't usurp ecclesiastical jurisdiction;  him
he/she wanted to see that the courts of cleric did their duty;  he said the
the power to transport them in this direction;  and he hoped to make the crown
the arbiter of disputes between the spiritual competitor and storm
jurisdictions, understanding that the only alternative to this supreme
authority was the arbitrament of war. Him also contended that clergy that
you/he/she had been unfrocked the cleric he/she courts for murder or the other crimes
you/he/she should be given on as laymen to subsequently be punished according to the
the earth's law, while Becket maintained that unfrockings it was a