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in or hy representatives, the

two old provincial "^TiOc!slia9 rx con^TwoVcjgri^t'ntativc
Convocations. " 'Thc^'til^aily nitt'at the sarrh* time
were often thought of and i-pokra of as the Convocation

of thcjrhok cfcijrch.5 ' , ' i C *' 1

These Convocations con5i5tt.d of the following, who
attended in person: l^rrT^ al bot.% priors, the dtans of
and collegia:: churchi*, arch Paeons, and the
of certain rvligiov.a ^rrcKrs, The nprt irritative
elements were thu tv;o tr'';cv~-r> from ? ach d7>:; si4 nn
York from c-ach archdeaconry; rtprv*- nting the j.-ariih
clergy, and one proctor for each cathedral and collegiate
chapter. Of course Convocation was a purely ecc!eis:asti-
cal body in purpose and make-up, although the
might consult it on civil natters, tspecially
But during the same century that this tody was grow-
ing, a parallel and rdatvd divclopnh nt was in progress
which ended in complete ecclesiastical npresentation in,
the Parliament of 129$,* The king u"a? shov/ing a
greater greater inclination to summon clergy to lay
assemblies, but the manner of summons and tlae ele-
ments summoned were largely ds'tcrmiued by the con-
temporary development of the Convocations. As far
back as 1177 Htnry^II. summoned d;-ans and arch-
deacons to aliotable great council.5 Jctn upon at kast
oae~~TO!at§Ion suirimoneH1"the''^ans> to jre^rcsent the
cathedra! chapters, aii'd there is an interesting
in *i2O7°15^wMch the prdat£S refused to bind the jin-
repre^nted_d£igy^nol .the in the o£ aT

1 For illustrative documents, s.ee Stubbs, Select Cxartw* pp. 444-447-

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in two separate squares; it is the growth of one idea. . . nf But his
thesis that Dominican influence played the coinmanJinj? part In all this

has not been generally accepted, Royal practi:-es in the line rl representa-
tion, election, and concentration well along beicsre there was any
Dominican Order.
3 Benedicttis Abbas, Gesta, i., 145. This was the council suinnoned to
make the award in the dispute submitted to Henry II. by the of
Castile and Navarre.