| At a council held at Westminster in October 1163 Henry demanded that criminous clerks should be unfrocked by the Church and handed over to the lay courts for punishment. |
| Clearly you have been up to something criminous at his expense. |
| The conflict between Henry II and Thomas a Beckett concerned the power of ecclesiastical courts alone to try criminous clerks. |
| First, there are frequent records of criminous clerks handed over to the bishop, in the ordinary routine, by the lay justices. |
| My natal Huck, retrograde in the tenth, gives an untrustworthy, criminous person. |
| On the most burning question, that of criminous clerks, he offered a compromise. |
