“I for my part, taking with me the companion whom your most excellent King Karl sent with us out of reverence to your apostolate, Wighod, abbat and presbyter, went on to the country of the Northanymbrians, to Aelfuald the King, and the Archbishop of the holy church of the city of York, Eanbald. The King was living far off in the north, and the said Archbishop sent his messengers to the King, who at once with all joy fixed a day for a council,[295] to which the chief men of the district came, ecclesiastical and secular. It was related in our hearing that other vices,[296] and by no means the least, needed correction. For, as you know, from the time of the holy pontiff Augustine no Roman priest[297] [or bishop] has been sent there except ourselves. We wrote a Capitular of the several matters, and brought them to their hearing, discussing each in order. They, with all humility of subjection and with clear will, honoured both your admonition and our insignificance, and pledged themselves to obey in all things. Then we handed to them your letters to be read, charging them to keep the sacred decrees in themselves and in those dependent on them. “These are the chapters which we delivered to them to be kept.[298] “1. Of keeping the faith of the Nicene Council. “2. Of Baptism, the Creed, the Lord’s Prayer. “3. Of two Councils to be held every year. “4. Of the service and vesture of Canons and Monks. “5. Of the elections of Abbats and Abbesses. “6. Of ordaining Priests and Deacons. “7. Of the Canonical Hours. “8. Of the rights of churches granted by the See of Rome. “9. That ecclesiastics do not take food secretly. “10. That priests do not perform sacred rites with bare legs[299]; of the offerings of the faithful; that chalice and paten for sacrificing to God be not made from ox-horn, because they are bloody; that bishops in their councils judge not secular matters. “11. Let kings and princes study justice, obey bishops, venerate the church, employ prudent counsellors. “12. That in the ordination of kings no one permit the assent of evil men to prevail; kings must be lawfully elected by the priesthood and the elders of the people, and be not born of adultery or incest; let honour be paid by all to kings; let no one be a detractor of a king; let no one dare to conspire for the death of a king, because he is the anointed of the Lord; if any one have part in such wickedness, if he be a bishop or of priestly order let him be thrust out from it, and every one who has assented to such sacrilege shall perish in the eternal fetters of anathema. For by examples among yourselves it has frequently been proved that those who have been the cause of the death of sovereigns have soon lost their life, being outside the protection of divine and human law. “13. That powerful and rich men decree just judgements. “14. Of the forbidding of fraud, violence, rapine; that unjust tribute be not imposed on churches; of keeping peace.