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RE-ORGANISATION OF THE MINSTER.
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ring, though at Lanfranc's request they were afterwards
restored. Pope Alexander gave no decided
judgment upon the question of subjection to Canterbury,
but referred it to the decision of a national
synod in their own country ; whilst the jurisdiction
of Worcester was to be settled by the Archbishop of
Canterbury himself. A synod was held, at which the
king was present, the issue of which was that the
Humber was made the southern boundary of the
diocese of York. The northern primates were to
swear allegiance to Canterbury, and to appear with
their suffragans when bidden to a council within that
province. A subsequent order, made in 1075, assigned
them a seat on the right hand^of the primate.
The question of Worcester was settled at a synod
held in 1072, when it was determined that it should
in future belong to the southern province, and not to
York.
Archbishop Thomas was very averse from parting
with the oversight of Lindsey, and long vehemently
opposed the transference of Remigius' episcopal seat
from Dorchester to Lincoln. But he was obliged at
last to give way.
Lincoln and Lindsey were eventually
transferred to Canterbury, and in lieu thereof the
Archbishops of York were to have the abbey of Selby
and the monastery of St. Oswald at Gloucester.
When Thomas of Bayeux came to York nothing
could exceed the wretchedness of all that he saw
around him. The minster was a blackened ruin, and,
as has already been mentioned, a vast tract of country
in his diocese was utterly waste and desolate.
Out of seven canons attached to the church of York