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Lawyer Harry Potter investigates the role of the church courts and Henry II鈥檚 attempts to deal with the problem. The church had its own legal system for the clergy called canon law. Punishments were lenient. Clerics could claim benefit of clergy by reciting Psalm 51. Royal justice was unable to prosecute the clergy. Henry appointed Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to get the church to conform and submit to his authority. Harry Potter then describes the murder of Becket and its consequences. Benefit of clergy was only abolished in 1827.