Clarence

Duke of, See Grorce. - DUKE OF CLARENCE.. Clarendon, Constitutions of, a code of laws adopted in the 10th year of Henry II. (1164), at a council of prelates and barons held in the village of Clarendon, in Wilts hire, in January of the above year. Ten of the articles were condemned, and six allowed & Pope Alexander III, The six articles approved of were of comparatively slight importance, mostly confirming the privileges of the ecclesiastical order, Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl ef, Lord High Chancellor of England; born in Dinton, Wilts hire, in 1608, During the civil wars he zealously attached himself to the royal cause, was made succe ively chancellor of the exchequer and privy councillor. After the failure of the royalist arms he took refuge in Jersey, and then joined Prince Charles in Holland. He contributed to the Restoration, accompanied Charles IT. to London, and was made Lord Chancellor. His daughter Anne was married to the Duke of York, afterward James IJ., and two daughters, Anne and Mary, both ascended the Epglat throne. \ He died in Rouen in 1674.: _ Claret, a name given to wines of a light-red color, Clarification, the act or proce of making any liquor clear and bright by freeing it from visible impurities. It differs from purification in that a liquid, though clear to the sight, may still contain a large amount of impure matter.