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Amongst his pupils he numbered John of Salisbury. He attended the council of Clarendon, A.D. 1162, and in 1164 was present at the meeting at Northampton between Becket and the King. Such was the fury and importance of the Becket controversy that even distant Hereford was entangled with it.
The Pope and his legate prevailed with Becket to consent to the Constitutions of the realm, without making any exception; the King said this must be done in public, and in January, 1164, convoked a council for the purpose at Clarendon, in Wiltshire.
He fasted, and abstained from ministering at the altar, till he had received from the Pope a letter of absolution for his act of weakness; and as the Pope gave no ratification of the Constitutions of Clarendon, he did not consider them binding. Henry shifted his ground, and, calling another Council at Northampton in 1164, brought various petty charges against the Archbishop.
Then he summoned the nobles also, and gave the prelates one more chance, which they decided to avail themselves of. Thus the "Constitutions of Clarendon" were adopted in 1164, and Becket, though he at first bolted the action of the convention, soon became reconciled and promised to fall into line, though he hated it like sin.
"This much we know: At the top of the southern belfry, the Old Belfry as it is called, near the window-bay looking towards the New Belfry, this name was deciphered: 'Harman, 1164. Is it that of an architect, of a workman, or of a night watchman on the look-out at that time in the tower? We can but wonder.
At last a small open boat was procured, and, embarking on the 2d of November, 1164, he safely landed near Gravelines. The county of Boulogne belonged to Mary de Blois, Stephen's daughter.
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