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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 97<br />

Aldred, [of York], had submitted to the k<strong>in</strong>g ;<br />

1 but <strong>in</strong> the<br />

follow<strong>in</strong>g year he sullied his oath, go<strong>in</strong>g over to the Scot.<br />

But when he had stayed t<strong>here</strong> for some years and obta<strong>in</strong>ed<br />

noth<strong>in</strong>g to his advantage for the present and noth<strong>in</strong>g to hope<br />

for <strong>in</strong> the future, except<strong>in</strong>g his daily allowance, he proceeded<br />

to make trial of the Norman's liberality, and sailed over to<br />

him, 2 at that time dwell<strong>in</strong>g beyond the sea.<br />

They say that <strong>this</strong> was most pleas<strong>in</strong>g to the k<strong>in</strong>g, that<br />

of wars. . .<br />

England should be relieved of a provoker .<br />

1074<br />

SYMEON OF DURHAM, HISTORIA DUNELMENSIS ECCLESIJE,<br />

VOL. I, PP. 111-112. 3<br />

But Aldw<strong>in</strong> left the monastery of Jarrow, hav<strong>in</strong>g<br />

as the<br />

companion of his way and purpose Turgot, 4 still <strong>in</strong> the garb of<br />

a cleric, but imitat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> devotion and deed the life of the<br />

monks. . . .<br />

They came to the former monastery of Melrose, at that time<br />

a solitude ; and delight<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the secluded habitation of that<br />

place began to live t<strong>here</strong> [as monks] serv<strong>in</strong>g Christ.<br />

But when their [monastic] life t<strong>here</strong> had become known to<br />

the k<strong>in</strong>g of the Scots, Malcolm, to whom that place perta<strong>in</strong>ed,<br />

they suffered at his hands grievous wrongs and persecutions<br />

for <strong>this</strong> cause, that, follow<strong>in</strong>g the evangelic precept, they<br />

refused to swear fealty to him.<br />

Meanwhile the venerable bishop Walcher 5 besought, admonished<br />

and adjured them <strong>in</strong> frequent letters and mandates,<br />

1 At ? Berkhamstead, <strong>in</strong> 1066 ; A.S.C., MS. D.<br />

2 Cf. Fl. of W., ii, 10, s.a. 1073 ; S. of D., H.R., ii, 200.<br />

3 Before visit<strong>in</strong>g Melrose, Aldw<strong>in</strong> had attempted to revive monasticism<br />

<strong>in</strong> Muncaster and Jarrow, S. of D., H.D.E., i, 108-111 ; <strong>in</strong> 1073, ibid., 122,<br />

127. Immediately after return<strong>in</strong>g from <strong>Scotland</strong> he partially restored Wearmouth<br />

monastery, <strong>in</strong> 1074; ibid., 113.<br />

This part of H.D.E. was written while Turgot was still prior of Durham;<br />

cf. Arnold, ibid., Ill, note.<br />

4<br />

Turgot became prior of Durham <strong>in</strong> 1087 ; S. of D., i, 127 ; and was<br />

made archdeacon <strong>in</strong> 1093, ibid., 129. He was consecrated bishop of St.<br />

Andrews <strong>in</strong> 1109; v. <strong>in</strong>fra, s.a. Cf. the story of his life <strong>in</strong> S. of D., H.R.,<br />

ii, 202-205.<br />

5<br />

Bishop of Durham, 1072-1080. He became earl of Northumbria <strong>in</strong><br />

1075 ; S. of D., i, 114 ; ii, 207-208 ; and was killed <strong>in</strong> 1080, May 14, by Adulf<br />

"<br />

Rus, son of earl Gospatric's cous<strong>in</strong> Utred ; and he is said to have sla<strong>in</strong> him<br />

with his own hand. But presently he too was sla<strong>in</strong>, by a woman, and was<br />

buried <strong>in</strong> the church at Jedburgh. But such pollution was afterwards cast<br />

out thence by Turgot, formerly prior of the church of Durham, and archdeacon."<br />

S. of D., H.R., ii, 198, This must have been while Turgot was

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