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 1093-1098 Character of the next period; distinct lines of story     326-328

Ecclesiastical affairs; working of the new ideas; new position of the King     328

1089-1093 Vacancy of the see of Canterbury; influence of Randolf Flambard     328-329

§ 1. The Administration of Randolf Flambard.

1089-1099 Early history of Flambard; question as to his settlement in England T. R. E.     329

His service with the Bishop of London     329-330

Flambard a priest, and said to have been Dean of Twinham     330

Character of Flambard; his parents; his surname; his financial skill     330-331

His probable share in Domesday; his alleged new Domesday     331-332

His rise under Rufus; he holds the justiciarship; growth of the office under him     332-333

His loss of land for the New Forest     333

His systematic charges and exactions; the King to be every man's heir     333-335

The feudal tenure; wardship; marriage; dealings with bishoprics and abbeys     335-336

Agency of Flambard; systematizing of the feudal tenures     336-337

Flambard's theory of land-holding; relief and redemption; dealings with wills     337-339

Wardship; its oppressive working; wardship and marriage special to England and Normandy     339-340

The two sides of feudalism; England in what sense feudal     340-341

Flambard's oppression falls most directly on the greatest estates; no special oppression of the English as such     341-342

Dealings of the tenants-in-chief with their under-*tenants 342

Submission of the nobles; position of the king's clerks     342-343

Position of Rufus favourable for his schemes; effect on national unity     343-344

Abuse of the old laws     344

Dealings with church property; appointment and investiture of bishops and abbots     345

Grant of the temporalities by the king; church lands become fiefs; analogy between lay and spiritual fiefs; Flambard's inferences     346-347