Following the Northampton confrontation and Becket's flight, Henry II sought to enforce the Constitutions of Clarendon domestically. In 1166 he held the Assize of Clarendon and extended royal judicial authority systematically. Armed royal justices and sheriffs were deployed across England with expanded powers. The administrative campaign was the domestic dimension of the church-crown conflict while Becket argued his case in Rome.
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