In the year 1072 after the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, the 11th year of the pontificate of the lord Pope Alexander, and the sixth year of the reign of William, the glorious king of the English and duke of the Normans, by command of the same Pope Alexander and by assent of the same king, in the presence of the king and of the bishops and abbots, there was debated the cause of the primacy, which Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury, claimed in right of his church over the church of York, and of the ordination of certain bishops, whereon there was no certainty to whom they ought specially to pertain; and at length, by divers authorities of divers writings, it was proved and shewn that the church of York ought to be subject to Canterbury, and to obey the rulings of the archbishop thereof, as primate of all Britain, in all the things that pertain to the Christian religion. But the metropolitan of Canterbury granted to the archbishop of York and his successors that they should hold subject the bishop of Durham, that is, of Lindisfarne, and all the districts from the boundaries of the bishopric of Lichfield and the great river Humber to the limits of the border of Scotland, and whatever belongs of right to the diocese of the church of York on this side of the aforesaid river; so that if the archbishop of Canterbury would summon a council wheresoever he should deem fit, the archbishop of York should attend the same at his bidding, with all his suffragans, and obey his canonical rulings. Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury, shewed also from the ancient custom of his predecessors that the archbishop of York ought to make profession to the archbishop of Canterbury, and that too with an oath; but out of love for the king he released Thomas, archbishop of York, from the oath and accepted a written profession only, without prejudicing his successors, if they should wish to demand from the successors of Thomas an oath with the profession. If the archbishop of Canterbury should die, the archbishop of York shall come to Canterbury, and, with the other bishops of the church aforesaid, shall of right consecrate him who shall be elected. And if the archbishop of York should die, he who is chosen to succeed him, after receiving from the king the gift of the archbishopric, shall come to Canterbury or whither the archbishop of Canterbury shall please, and shall receive canonical ordination from him. To this constitution assented the aforesaid King, and the archbishops, Lanfranc of Canterbury, and Thomas of York, and Hubert, subdeacon of the holy church of Rome and legate of the aforesaid Pope Alexander, and the rest of the bishops and abbots who were there. This cause was first debated in the city of Winchester at the Easter festival, in the royal chapel within the castle; and afterwards in the royal town called Windsor, where also it was determined in the presence of the King, the bishops and abbots of divers orders, who were