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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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o arrogate for himself thePalatinate jurisdiction. He succeeded in getting theBishop thrown into prison on false charges of treason,and then forced a Bill through Parliament whichabolished the power of the Palatinate, and created twoSees—one at Durham, the other at Newcastle. There canbe little doubt that he intended to secure the Palatinatepower for himself, and to rule in Durham as Duke ofNorthumberland; whilst his son, Guildford Dudley,recently married to Lady Jane Grey, was to be PrinceConsort, and to share the throne of England. Thismost daring scheme fell to the ground when Mary cameto the throne, and the recent legislation was at onceabolished, and things went back to the conditions obtain-ing before the reign of Edward. Under Elizabeth the Bishopric underwent a process ofreconstruction in various ways. It was not a pleasantprocess. Socially the old system of land-tenure, whichhad been breaking up since the Black Death, wasabolished, and a new method of leaseholds was evolved
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fl/; ))fMJu Portrait of William James, Bishop of Durham, 1606-1617. Durham 35 after much friction between the tenants on the one side,and the Dean and Chapter, or the Bishop, on the other.The power of the Bishop was now further attenuated, forthe Queen laid hands upon large estates which were theundoubted possession of the See, with a history of manycenturies attachment to the Patrimony of St. Cuthbert.The settlement of religion carried out in the early years ofthe Queens reign was largely unpalatable in Durham.Certainly the majority of the clergy acquiesced, but theacquiescence was largely external. So the people at largetolerated the changes that were wrought in churches andservices, when the English liturgy took the place of theLatin offices restored by Mary, and when altars werebroken down, and the church furniture in general wasdestroyed. The great Bishopric families—Nevilles,Lumleys, and others—scarcely concealed their dislike ofthe new regime in Church and in State, and aft

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