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It is a tribute to English orthodoxy that the Act "de haeretico comburendo" was not passed until 1401. Early usage forbade the clergy to be concerned in judgments involving death or mutilation. This finds expression in the Constitutions of Clarendon ; and the fourth Lateran Council definitely forbade clerks to utter a judgment of blood or to be present at an execution.
His monument adjoins that of the Black Prince. He was involved in the conspiracy for which his brother, the Earl of Arundel, was executed, and was himself exiled. He was restored after Bolingbroke's success, and received the abdication of Richard II. In 1400 the statute De haeretico comburendo was enacted, and Arundel began to put it in force against the Lollards.
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