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This was particularly true in the case of criminous clerks, over which the king and Becket came to grief.

The crunch came with Henry's attempts to deal with the problem of 'criminous clerks'.

And how is the criminous little world of St Waldemar Boniface?"

Above all, by means of the privilegium fori it withdrew the so-called "criminous clerks" from the jurisdiction of the civil courts.

The case was one of those that contributed to King Henry's determination that criminous clerks should be subject to royal justice, not just ecclesiastical justice.

William Roughead (1870-1952) was a well-known Scottish lawyer and amateur criminologist, as well as an editor and essayist on "matters criminous".

Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury (1162-1170), resisted the Constitutions, especially the clause concerning "criminous clerks."

From 1911 to 1945 he produced upward of fifty novels and half a dozen collections of short stories; more than two-thirds of these are criminous in nature, yet except for Mme.

At the bottom line, he was forced to give in on the problem of criminous clerks, and this fundamental concession would create problems between Church and state right down to the Reformation.

He maintained an extensive personal correspondence with the Scottish crime writer, William Roughead, the two writers offering support and encouragement to each other in their chosen field of "matters criminous".

Because even those men who took minor orders were considered clerks (clerics), the quarrel over the so-called "criminous clerks" potentially covered up to one-fifth of the male population of England at the time.

In "Pattern for Murder," the only Mr. and Mrs. North criminous short story, Pam attends a reunion of old schoolmates and is confronted by much more than mere memories.

Three Realms (三曹) - the belief that Heaven, the living and the deceased exist side by side, heaven a place for saints or rested souls, hell for the criminous deceased.

The issue of "criminous clerks" began to be discussed during the early twelfth century, and by the 1150s in England, there was some acceptance that such men could be tried only by an ecclesiastical tribunal.

The joke was, as he knew from the records, that one of two of the most successful criminous families had moved from council flats into the new apartments on the proceeds of a life of profitable wrongdoing.

There, Henry presented the bishops with the infamous Constitutions of Clarendon, a list of 16 clauses defining the relationship between secular and canon law (of which clause 3 explicitly outlines the criminous clerks proposal).

The Constitutions' primary goal was to deal with the controversial issue of "criminous clerks," or clergy who had been accused of committing a serious secular crime but were tried in ecclesiastical courts by "benefit of Clergy".

"During my talk I twice got the distinct impression that we were being spied on by an evil intelligence, one of the criminous sort my father deals with, or one of our own enemies or a cast-off lover perchance."

But it works, and I think an American reading public that could accept the supernatural horrors of Rosemary's Baby and the criminous ones of The Godfather will embrace it, recommend it to their friends, and talk about it for years.

Record also that the treaty declares none shall be delivered before the adjudgment of guilt, for though we be all criminous, it is not love's desire that men shall exploit each other for anything but sins determined as such by the word of human law."

The past few days he had been feeling out of sorts with almost everyone around him, weary of his left-hand problems, and perversely lonely for Lankhmar with its wizards and criminous folks, its smokes (so different from this bracing northern sea air) and sleazy grandeurs.

True, in the movies and novels of the pre-now era, law and order usually wound up winning, but you don't have to be Diogenes to suppose that the prime fascination of all those criminous heroes, otherwise known as villains, was the possibility of the audience sharing vicariously in their wickedness.