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[SEE OF CARLISLE.]

idonea persona ibidem in abbatem eligatur, nihilominus studeas. Sententiam sane, quam in abbatem de Riesvalle tua discretio promulgaverit, nos auctore Domino ratam habebimus. Et ut in Johannem Glesguensem pseudo-episcopum anathematis sententiam proferat, venerabili fratri nostro G. Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo Apostolicæ Sedis legato per scripta nostra mandavimus; quousque a suis erroribus resipiscat, et ad tuam subjectionem et jus metropoliticum redeat. Studii quoque tui sit in eundem Johannem, nisi infra tres menses ad matrem suam sanctam Romanam et Eboracensem ecclesiam remeaverit, anathematis sententiam promulgare. Data Parisis ↳ X. kalendas Maii. [Reg. Alb. Ebor., P. I., fol. 52 b.]

a The date of this letter is fixed by the reference, not only to Rievaulx, founded A.D. 1132, but more definitely by that to Selby, viz. to the vacancy caused there by the resig nation of Abbat Durannus in the "last year of Henry I.," viz. A.D. 1135 (Hist. Mon. Seleb. in Labb. Bibl. Nov., I. 610). Innocent was

at Pisa in April, A.D. 1136. And the York scribe must have written "Parisis" by mistake, both in this and in the preceding letter, which obviously was written at the same time and place. Archbishop William died Nov. 21, A.D. 1136.

b Read "Pisis."

A.D. 1136. April 22. Pisa. Pope Innocent II. to Stephen King of England, respecting the Cathedral of Carlisle.

REG. ALB. EBOR.-Litera ad Dominum S. Regem Anglia super ecclesia Carleon. de tanto pro Cathedrali habenda.-INNOCENTIUS EPISCOPUS SERVUS SERVORUM DEI, karissimo in Christo filio Stephano, illustri Anglorum Regi, salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem.

Serenitatem tuam nolumus ignorare nos jamdudum ex dispensatione Apostolica statuisse, ut videlicet locus Karliolii de cætero Episcopalis dignitatis culmine decoretur, et perpetuis futuris temporibus ejusdem honoris prærogativa illustratus existat. Ad quod nimirum efficiendum prædecessor tuus gloriosæ memoriæ Henricus multo desiderio æstuavit, si quam morte intercedente quod exinde proposuerat nequivit efficere. Nobilitatem tuam Apostolicis literis commonemus, ut quod ab ipso super eadem re minus factum est, suplere non desinas, quatinus et in eodem loco omnipotenti Domino honorifice serviatur, et tua devotio cum peccatorum remissione a remuneratione ovium digna præmia consequi mereatur. Data Pisis X. kalendas Maii. [Raine's Mem. of Hexham, I. App. VIII. pp. xii. xiii.]

Bishop Aldulph was not in possession at all of his see of Carlisle until A.D. 1138. And Henry the son of King David held Cumberland, although as a fief of England, from A.D. 1136. Innocent's letter would suit best

to the earlier period. And as he certainly was at Pisa April 22, A.D. 1136, and apparently not in that month of any later year, A.D. 1136 is almost certainly the date.

[COUNCIL OF CARLISLE.]

A.D. 1138. Sept. 26-29. Provincial Council of Scottish Bishops at Carlisle under the Legate Alberic.

Alberic sent as RICHARD. HAGUST. Gesta Stephani,'anno 1138.—Circa legate. idem tempus quidam Albericus Hostiensis Episcopus in illas partes venit, quem Innocentius Romanæ sedis Apostolicus, ut legationis officio in Anglia et Scottia fungeretur, miserat. ...... ... Fere per totam Angliam visitando pertransivit. ...... Tandem vero usque ad Dunelmum pervenit. ...... Habens secum duos Episcopos Rodbertum Herefordensem et Adthelwlfum Carlelensem, etc., ad Haugustaldense cœnobium pervenit. ...... Deinde per Northymbriam et Cumbarland quarto die ante festum Sancti Michaelis ad Carlel pervenit, ibique Regem Scottiæ cum Episcopis, abbatibus, prioribus, baronibus suæ terræ reperit. Illi vero, diu a Cisalpina, imo fere ab universa Ecclesia discordantes, exosæ memoriæ Petro Church accepts Leoni [s] et apostasiæ ejus nimium favisse videbantur. Innocent II. as Tunc vero, Divina gratia inspirati, mandata Innocentii Pope. Papæ et legatum ejus omnes unanimiter cum magna veneratione susceperunt. Igitur triduo cum eis de suæ legationis negotiis diligenter tractavit. Et quoniam cognovit quod Johannes Glesguensis Episcopus curam animarum quam John of Glasgow ordered to quit habuerat nulli commiserat, et sine licentia ac clanculo Tyron and return Episcopatum suum reliquerat, et, nulla evidente necessitate cogente, apud Tironam monachus effectus est, de illo definivit, ut regius nuntius cum ipsius et Regis pariter litteris pro eo mitteretur; et si redire nollet, sententia super illum daretur a. Et ita factum est.

The Scottish

to his see.

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peace and to

ities.

Convenit quoque Regem de reformanda pace inter legate to make eum et Regem Angliæ, et hujus rei gratia ad ejus pedes prevent barbar- cecidit, scilicet ut sanctæ Ecclesiæ et sui ipsius et suorum misereretur, quibus tot et tanta mala fecerat. Sed vix inducias impetravit, quod nullum exercitum et nullum malum, excepta obsidione quæ circa Carrum erat, ante festum Sancti Martini in 'terram Regis Angliæ induceret. Hoc etiam apud Pictos impetravit, quod omnes puellas ac mulieres captivas, quas habere possent, ante eundem terminum ad Carlel reducerent, et eas ibi libertati redderent. Ipsi quoque et omnes alii firmissime ei promiserunt, quod nullo modo ecclesias amplius violarent, et quod

[COUNCIL OF CARLISLE.]

parvulis et fœmineo sexui et ex infirmitate et ætate debilibus parcerent, et omnino neminem nisi sibi resistentem amplius occiderent. Rex quoque, cum Priore de Hestaldasham, qui illuc cum legato venerat, antequam illum interpellaret de dampno ipsius et fratrum suorum locutus, illud multum planxit, et promisit quod totum restitui faceret; et insuper de injuria quæ illis et eorum ecclesiæ facta fuerat, et de interfectione hominum suorum, eis rectum facere suos cogeret. Quod et ex magna parte fecit. Nam et eorum et hominum suorum pecunia fere tota reddita est.

His ita factis, legatus, ipso die festivitatis Sancti Michaelis inde discedens, per Hestaldasham et Dunelmum in Suth-Angliam rediit, narravitque Stephano Regi Angliæ suisque, quod apud David Regem Scottiæ et suos profecerat. [Raine, Mem. of Hexham, I. 96-100: also in Twysd. 325, 326; and W., I. 413, 414.]

Aldulf permitted

lisle.

Jo. HAGUST. in an. 1138.— [gives an identical acto occupy Car- count of this synod, but adds, that] Aldulfum Episcopum in gratiam ejusdem Regis [David] et in sedem suam de Karlel [legatus] recipi impetravit. [Raine, ib. 121; Twysd. 264; W., I. 418.]

CHRON. DE MAILROS, in an. 1138.-Alberius legatus Hostiensis Episcopus venit Carleil ad Regem David.

A grant by king David to Wetherall Priory, witnessed by" Episcopo Johanne," etc., at Carlisle (Dugd. Mon. III. 595, from Wetherall

Register), appears to belong to this date or shortly after.

A.D. 1140. Benedictine (of Tyron) Abbey of Kilwinning in Cuningham founded from Kelso by Hugh Moreville Constable of Scotland (Chalmers, Caled. III. 484); and not later than A.D. 1140, the Hospital or Maison Dieu of Roxburgh, on the right bank of the Teviot, by King David (Lib. de Calchou, p. 279); and A.D. 1144, that of Lismahago in Clydesdale, also Benedictines of Tyron, from Kelso, and dedicated to S. Machutus, founded by King David (Orig. Paroch. Scot., I. 110).

A.D. 1142. CHRON. DE MAILROS, in an.-Fundata est abbatia de Dundraynan in Galwaya a.

a Dundrennan was a Cistercian abbey, founded by Fergus of Galloway from Rievaulx.

[BISHOP OF GLASGOW CONSECRATED BY THE POPE.]

A.D. 1147. August 24. Bishop of Glasgow consecrated by Pope
Eugenius III. at Auxerre.

Jo. HAGUST. in an. 1147.-Defunctus est eodem anno Johannes Episcopus Glesguensis, propter excellentiam virtutis David Regis Scotia familiarissimus; sepultusque est in ecclesia de Gedderwird a, in qua conventum regularium clericorum ipse disposuit. Electus pro eo Herbertus abbas de Calceio, vir et ipse strenuus; consecratus est a Papa Eugenio apud Autisiodorum. [Raine, 156; and Twysd. 276.] CHRON. DE MAILROS, in an. 1147.-Obiit Johannes Glascuensis Episcopus, et Herebertus abbas de Kelhou successit ei, consecratus a Papa Eugenio Antisiodoro die Sancti Bartholomei.

See also Fordun, as above, p. 28. The see of York was vacant, by Archbishop William's deposition. John was at Coldingham

with King David May 3, A.D. 1147 (Raine's North Durbam, Append. no. 21).

A.D. 1147 × 1164. Constitutions of Bishop Herbert for Glasgow Catkedral after the model of Saruma. [Not preserved. A Bull of Pope Alexander III. of March 25, A.D. 1173, confirms, among other things,] racionabiles consuetudines et libertates, quas bone memorie Herbertus quondam Episcopus uester secundum morem Sarisberiensis Ecclesie in Ecclesia uestra induxit et scripto proprio confirmauit. [Reg. Glasg, no. 28.]

See Thomas Innes, in Pref. to Arbuthnot Missal, lxii-lxv.

A.D. 1150. HOVEDEN, in an.-Anno gratiæ Mo.Co.L°. facta est abbatia de Holcultrama. Eodem anno ordo Premonstratensis venit ad Dryburcb ad festum Sancti Martini. [I. 211, ed. Stubbs.]— So also CHRON. DE MAILROS, in an.

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A.D. 1154. Dec. 19. Christian Bishop of Whitkerne consecrated at Bermondsey by the Archbishop of Rouen acting for the Archbishop of York a.

CHRON. S. CRUCIS, in an.-Christianus in Episcopum Galwalie, eodem die quo et Rex Anglie Henricus, ab Archiepiscopo Rotomagensi apud Bermundeseiam consecratus est.

BENEDICT ABBAS, in an. 1177.-Dicebat enim [Christianus] Episcopatum suum pertinere ad legatiam Rogeri Eboracensis Archiepiscopi,

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qui eum in Episcopum consecraverat, secundum consuetudinem

antiquam prædecessorum utriusque. A.D. 1177, Aug. 1 b.]

a "Christianus Witernensis Episc." witnesses a grant of Malcolm IV. to the church of Dunfermline made in full Scottish parliament, A.D. 1154 (Acts of Parl. of Scotl., vol. I. p. 52*). b In Reginald. Dun., Lib. de B. Cuthb. Virtutibus, c. 85, is an account of a visit of Ailred

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of Rievaulx to Kirkcudbright, A.D. 1164, which states incidentally that the clerici qui in illa Ecclesia commorantur, Pictorum lingua Scollofthes cognominantur" (p. 179, ed. Surtees Soc.).

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A.D. 1155. Feb. 27. Rome. Bull of Adrian IV. to the Scottish Bishops, and first of all to H. Glasguensis and Christian Candide Casa; [enjoining obedience to Roger Archbishop of York. See below, under the Scottish Church.]

A.D. 1156. See of Carlisle vacant until (in effect) A.D. 1219a.

a See below, under A.D. 1186. Aldulfus died A.D. 1156 (Ann. Waverl., R. de Monte), on the morrow of Ascension Day (Bened. Abbas, I. 349). And the see remained vacant "twentynine or thirty" years from his death, until a

vain attempt by the King, Henry II., to persuade one Paulinus to accept it, in A.D. 1186 (Bened. Abbas, in an. 1186). Carlisle and Cumberland were ceded by Malcolm to Henry in A.D. 1157.

A.D. 1160. The Cluniac Abbey of Paisley founded by Walter Fitz-Alan a. Regist. de Passelet, and Orig. Paroch. Scot., I. 68.

A.D. 1164. March x September. Attempted Legatine Scottish Council under Roger of York at Norham.

CHRON. DE MAILROS, in an.-Archiepiscopus Eboracensis venit Norham ut legatione fungeretur per Scotiam; sed nuncii Regis Scotorum restiterunt ei, et contradixerunt eius legationi; et inde rediit confusus.

FORDUN, Scotichron. VIII. 15.-Hic vir Rogerus totis viribus conatus est primatum habere super Ecclesiam Scoticanam. In tantam enim elationem ob coronationem juvenis Henrici Anglorum, quam in contemptum primatis sui Thomæ Cantuariensis exercuit a, ut pro nihilo se prævalere putaverat, nisi et etiam præesset Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ. Nam et antequam coronatus fuit idem Henricus, patre consentiente, anno scil. Domini 1164, Ingelramus Archidiaconus Glasguensis, Regis Malcolmi olim Cancellarius, mortuo Herberto, electus est in Glasguensem antistitem. Quo in tempore vacaverunt Sancti An

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