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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