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[POPE ALEXANDER III. TO THE BISHOPS OF SCOTLAND.]

et terre mee detrimento pretermitti potest, quin ita fiat; quoniam in pace reformata ita inter dominum meum Regem et me convenit, et illud idem iuramento firmavi. Scio enim quod in maximum periculum animarum nostrarum redundaret, si quod pro certo scimus competere debere, effectui non manciparetur. Valeat semper Sanctitas

vestra.

Dat. Anagn. III. Idus Maii a. [Dugd. Monast. VI. 1186, no. XLIII., from the York Registers; also in MS. Cott. Cleop. C. IV. 20; and in W., I. 481, 482.]

This letter is placed by Wilkins under A.D. 1175; but inasmuch as Pope Alexander was at Ferentinum in A.D. 1175, and at Anagnia A.D. 1176, while the contents of both this and the following letter equally suit either year, both of them are here placed

under A.D. 1176. In that case, King William's letter must have been extorted from him at Northampton, and sent by the English authorities to the Pope. It is entered in the English Lib. Rubeus Scaccar. fol. 176 (Hunter, Catal. of Contents of the Lib. Rub. p. 40).

A.D. 1176, July 30. Anagnia. Pope Alexander III. to the Bishops of Scotland.

censi Episcopo

neantur.

Quod Episcopi REG. EPISC. GLASG., no. 38.-ALEXANDER EPISCOPUS Scotia Ebora- SERVUS SERVORUM DEI, venerabilibus fratribus Episcopis tanquam metro- Scotia, salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem. Super politano respondere minime te- anxietatibus et angustiis quas sustinere noscimini, paterna vobis affectione compatimur et plurimum condolemus, et super hiis omnem quam cum Deo possumus parati sumus auxilium impertiri. Sane gravat vos admodum, gravat et nos, quod carissimus in Christo filius noster Henricus illustris Anglorum Rex vos jurare coegit, ut obediretis Anglicanæ Ecclesiæ; cum hoc injuriam Dei et contemptum nostrum respiciat, et in depressionem ecclesiasticæ libertatis, quam non est alicujus Regis vel principis de Ecclesiis vel personis ecclesiasticis ordinare. Nos autem sustinere nolentes libertatem vestram imminui, venerabili fratri nostro Eboracensi Archiepiscopo Apostolicæ sedis legato districte præcepimus, ut in vos jus metropoliticum non exerceat, donec sub examine Romani pontificis cognoscatur, utrum sibi debeatis metropolitico jure subesse; et memoratum Regem de receptione prædictorum juramentorum prout debuimus redarguentes, ipsum attente monuimus, ut vos ad præstandam sibi obedientiam non compellat, nec ad hoc suum assensum tribuat vel favorem. Mandamus itaque fraternitati vestræ atque præcipimus, quatinus nemini nisi Romano pontifici, juramentorum ipsorum obtentu vel alia de

[VIVIAN SENT AS LEGATE TO THE SCOTTISH (AMONG OTHER) CHURCHES.] causa, metropolitico jure obedire temptetis, donec in præsentia nostra vel catholici successoris nostri, si præfatus Archiepiscopus super hoc in causam trahere vos voluerit, controversia inter vos et ipsum fine debito terminetur. Datum Anagniæ III. Kal. Augusti b. [I. 35.]

a This letter is dated eight days after the legate Vivian landed in England, and could not therefore have been sent by his hands. Its date (Anagnia) fixes it to A.D. 1176.

b A letter of Pope Alexander III. to [Jocelin] Bishop of Bath, A.D. 1175 or 6 x 1181, -ordering him to eject the clerks presented

by [William] King of Scotia to churches in the Earldom of [Huntingdon, given to William by the younger King Henry in 1173, and restored to] Simon [De St. Liz] Earl [of Northampton, about A.D. 1174]—is in Mansi, XXII. 413. Reginald Fitz-Jocelin became Bishop of Bath, A.D. 1174.

A.D. 1176, July-1177, January.

Cardinal Vivian comes to England

as legate to Scotland, Man, and Ireland, whither he goes.

I. CHRON. DE MAILROS, in an.-Wivianus tituli Sancti Stephani in Celio Monte presbyter Cardinalis, Apostolicæ sedis legatus, Scotiam intravit, conculcans et comminuens obvia quæque, expeditus capere nec impeditus rapere.

II. BENED. ABB., in an.-Interim Willelmus Rex Scotia et Episcopi terræ suæ, timentes infestationem Regis Angliæ et Rogeri Eboracensis Archiepiscopi, latenter miserunt nuncios suos ad Romanum Pontificem, et ab eo impetraverunt quod ipse mitteret eis unum de Cardinalibus suis, qui cognosceret causam controversiæ quæ inter eos et Anglicanam Ecclesiam vertebatur de subjectione facienda. Missus est itaque ad eos Vivianus, &c., et circa festum Sanctæ Mariæ Magdalenæ [July 22] applicuit in Anglia, sine Regis licentia. Et paulo post, cum venisset ad Northamtoniam, Rex misit [&c. (as in Hoveden, quoted below), I. 117, 118.]

III. HOVEDEN, Chron. in an.-Eodem anno Alexander papa misit Vivianum presbyterum Cardinalem, Apostolicæ sedis legatum in Scotia, et in insulis circumjacentibus, et in Hybernia, et in Noreweia, ad causas ecclesiasticas audiendas et determinandas secundum quod Deus ei administraret. Qui cum in Angliam veniret, dominus rex Angliæ misit ad eum Ricardum Wintoniensem, et Gaufridum Eliensem Episcopos, et interrogavit eum cujus auctoritate ausus erat intrare regnum suum sine licentia illius. His igitur interrogationibus prædictus Cardinalis plurimum territus, de satisfactione juravit Regi, quod ipse nihil ageret in legatione sua contra voluntatem illius; et sic data

[LEGATINE COUNCIL OF EDINBURGH UNDER CARDINAL VIVIAN.]

est ei licentia transeundi usque in Scotiam. Et dominus Rex invenit ei conductum et expensas, usque dum veniret in terram Regis Scotia. [II. 98, 99.]

IV. CHRON. MANN., in an. 1176.—Eodem anno Vivianus Apostolicæ sedis legatus Cardinalis venit in Manniam, et legationis suæ officium complens Godredum Regem legitime desponsari fecit cum uxore sua nomine Phingola, filia Mac Loclen filii Murkartac Regis Yberniæ, matre scilicet Olavi qui tunc triennis erat. Desponsavit autem eos Silvanus abbas de Rieavalis. Ipsa die Godredus Rex dedit in oblationem venerabili abbati Silvano partem terræ apud Mirescog, ubi mox monasterium construxit; sed processu temporis terra tota cum monachis concessa est abbatiæ Sanctæ Mariæ de Russin. [pp. 13, 14, ed. Munch.]

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V. BENED. ABBAS, in an. 1177.-Eodem anno in ipsa Vigilia Nativitatis Domini [Dec. 24, 1176] Vivianus tituli sancti Stephani de Cœlio Monte presbyter Cardinalis, et Apostolicæ sedis legatus, naves ascendit in Galveia apud civitatem Witerne, et applicuit in insula quæ vocatur Man, et ibi per quindecim dies moram fecit, familiariter et honorifice susceptus a Rege illius insulæ et a clero et populo: et circa Epiphaniam [Jan. 6, 1177] transfretavit inde in Hyberniam, &c. [I. 136, 137.]

A.D. 1177. Aug. 1. Edinburgh. Legatine Council of Edinburgh under Cardinal Vivian.

I. BENED. ABBAS. [See above, pp. 44, 45-]

II. CHRON. DE MAILROS, in an.-Vivianus Cardinalis, Hybernia rediens, apud Castrum Puellarum prælatos Regni Scotia convocavit, et in concilio sedit.

III. HOVEDEN, Chron. in an.-Eodem anno prædictus Vivianus, presbyter Cardinalis et Apostolicæ sedis legatus, peracta legatione sua in Hybernia, rediit in Angliam, et per conductum domini Regis rediit in Scotiam; et celebrato concilio apud Castellum Puellarum, suspendit a pontificali officio Christianum Episcopum Candidæ Casæ, quia ad concilium suum venire noluit. Sed Episcopus Candidæ Casæ suspensionem illam non tenuit, septus munimine Rogeri Eboracensis

Archiepiscopi, cujus suffraganeus ipse erat. [II. 135; and in W., I. 486.]

[POPE ALEXANDER III. TO THE BISHOPS OF SCOTLAND.]

IV. FORDUN, Scotichron. VIII. 25. [adds, that] Vivianus... Scotiam revisit, . . . et plurima renovans [al. revocans], antiquorum decreta et nova quædam statuens præcepta, concilium [sc. apud monasterium Sanctæ Crucis de Castello Puellarum] calendis Augusti solenne celebravit. [I. 474; and in W., I. 486.]

V. A.D. 1178 x 1181. Jan. 27. Anagnia. Pope Alexander III. to the Bishops of Scotland.

Episcopis Scocie,

cant statuta Vi

contra Ordinem

Cisterciorum facta.

Epistola Alex- ALEXANDER EPISCOPUS, SERVUS SERVORUM DEI, veneraandri Pape III. bilibus fratribus vniuersis Episcopis Scocie, [salutem, &c.]. Inut in irritum du- sinuatum est auribus nostris, quod dilectus frater noster viani Cardinalis Viuianus tituli sancti Stephani in Celio Monte presbiter et eorum legati Cardinalis, cum in partibus illis legationis fungeretur officio, sollempniter statuit et decreuit, quod fratres Cisterciensis Ordinis de terris, quas tenent ab alijs et laborant, decimas soluant. Vnde, quia non credimus predictum Cardinalem huiusmodi decretum fecisse, nec licuit ei contra statuta Romani Pontificis decretum facere, uel priuilegium Romane Ecclesie, ubi dubium est, auctoritate propria exponere, uniuersitati uestræ per Apostolica scripta precipiendo mandamus, quatinus occasione illius statuti fratres Cisterciensis Ordinis non cogatis nec permittatis compelli decimas soluere de terris, quas proprijs manibus aut sumptibus excolunt; siue sint eorum proprie, siue ab alijs ipsas teneant. Grauissimum enim et molestissimum habemus, nec equo animo pati [uolumus], si occasione illius statuti auctoritate priuilegii derogetis, quod fratribus Cisterciensis Ordinis noscitur ab Apostolica sede indultum. Data Anagnie, VI. Kal. Februarii. [Robertson's Stat. Eccl. Scotic., App. to Pref., no. XIV. p. ccxlv., from the Registrum Chartarum Monast. Rieval. no. CCXXXIII. fol. 169, in Cotton MSS. Julius D. I.]

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A.D. 1178. Foundation of the Abbey of Arbroath.

CHRON. DE LANERCOST, in an.-Rex vero Willelmus Scottoob familiarem amorem inter ipsum et Sanctum Thomam [sc. Becket] dum adhuc in curia Regis Henrici esset contractum,

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[CLERGY TO BE ORDAINED ON EMBER DAYS ONLY.]

divulgato in mundo et approbato in cœlo celebri ejus martyrio, abbatiam de Aberbroutoka, in honore ipsius fundavit et redditibus ampliavit b. [p. 11.]

See also Reg. de Aberbrotbok, pp. 1-8.

The monastery was Benedictine of Tyron, from Kelso. That of Fyvie in Buchan was founded from it A. D. 1179 (Spottisw. Rel. Houses, p. 410). Lindores, also Benedictine

of Tyron, was founded about this time by David Earl of Huntingdon, on his return from the Holy Land (ib. 411). And, before A.D. 1178, the Cistercian nunnery of Haddington, by Ada Countess of Northumberland (ib. 462).

A.D. 1178. Legate sent to summon the Scottish Bishops to the third Lateran Council.

HOVEDEN, Chron.-Venerunt igitur in Angliam duo legati, videlicet Albertus de Suma, cui etc., . . . et Petrus de Sancta Agatha, cui commissa erat Scotia et Hyberniæ et insularum adjacentium Episcoporum et abbatum citatioa. [II. 167.]

a The summons is dated Sept. 21, A.D. 1178 (Labb. Conc. X. 1506), the Bishops to be at Rome Feb. 14, A.D. 1179. Bened. Abbas (I. 210) specifies also Galloway and

Man; and that the legate (and the Bishops as well) was made to swear that he would "return" also through England.

Before A.D. 1179. Clergy not to be ordained on other than the
Ember Days.

DECRET. GREG. IX., lib. I. tit. XI. c. 2.—ALEXANDER III. Episcopo Herfordensi (c. an. 1165, Roma in Angliam)... Sane super eo quod moris esse dixisti, in Ecclesiis quibusdam Scotiæ et Valliæ b in dedicationibus ecclesiarum vel altarium extra jejunia Quatuor Temporum clericos ad sacros ordines promovere; significamus, quod consuetudo illa, utpote institutioni ecclesiasticæ inimica, est penitus improbanda; et nisi multitudo et antiqua consuetudo terræ esset, taliter ordinati non deberent permitti in susceptis ordinibus ministrare. Nam apud nos sic ordinati deponerentur, et ordinantes privarentur autoritate ordinandi.

a From Append. to 3rd Lateran Council, A.D. 1179, P. XXVI. c. 24 (Labb., X. 1656). The date in the Decretals, A.D. 1165, seems to be purely conjectural. To what Bishop of

Hereford the letter was addressed depends of course upon the date.

b"Gallia" in another MS.: "Gawlia" in a third.

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