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  1. In English history, a series of resolutions
  2. agreed by a council summoned by Henry II at
  3. Clarendon in Wiltshire 1164. The
  4. Constitutions aimed at limiting the secular
  5. power of the clergy, and were abandoned after
  6. the murder of Thomas a Becket. They form an
  7. early English legal document of great
  8. historical value.
  9.