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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 133<br />
Also he gave the earldom of Northamptonshire to David,<br />
who was the queen's brother. x<br />
T<strong>here</strong>after died Thomas, the archbishop of York, on the<br />
thirteenth day before the Kalends of March. 2<br />
1109 x 1114<br />
HUGH SOTTEWAIN, ARCHBISHOPS OF YORK, IN RAINE'S YORK,<br />
3<br />
VOL. II, P. 127.<br />
This Thomas [II] orda<strong>in</strong>ed as bishop to the church of<br />
Glasgow a holy man, Michael, who gave written profession of<br />
1 Cf . the charters addressed to him and others by Henry I, <strong>in</strong> Chr. of<br />
one 1115 x 1119, the other 1114 x 1118.<br />
Ramsey, 227 ;<br />
2 The 17th of February. A.S.C., MS. E, gives no date. Fl. of W., ii,<br />
67, says on the 24th February ; so S. of D., H.R., ii, 248. H.S., Abps. of Y. ?<br />
says the 19th ; Ra<strong>in</strong>e's York, ii, 128 ; so Chr. of Abps., ibid., 372.<br />
3 Cf. the prohibition, 1109x1114, of Thomas II of York, refus<strong>in</strong>g to<br />
allow chrism and oil to be given <strong>in</strong> Teviotdale except from the bishop of<br />
Durham, because it is " <strong>in</strong> the parish of the bishop of Durham " ; <strong>in</strong> Ra<strong>in</strong>e's<br />
York, iii, 37 : that is to say, deny<strong>in</strong>g that Teviotdale perta<strong>in</strong>ed to Glasgow.<br />
Cf. s.a. 1107, supra, note.<br />
With the claim of York to superiority over Glasgow cf . the letter of Ralph,<br />
archbishop of Canterbury, to pope Calixtus II ; <strong>in</strong> Ra<strong>in</strong>e's York, ii, 241 :<br />
" and <strong>in</strong>deed of the bishop of Glasgow it is to be related <strong>in</strong> short that he is a<br />
bishop of the ancient Britons, who the blessed father Gregory decreed should<br />
severally be subject to the bishop of Canterbury. And the bishop of <strong>this</strong><br />
church to wit, accord<strong>in</strong>g to the tradition of their elders, down to these times<br />
of the Normans used to be consecrated by the bishop either of the Scots or o f<br />
the Welsh Britons."<br />
"<br />
Ibid., 246-247 : [Thomas II] t<strong>here</strong>fore orda<strong>in</strong>ed a certa<strong>in</strong> Briton as<br />
bishop to the Glasgow church, which almost beyond memory had not had<br />
the solace of a bishop. And of <strong>this</strong> bishop it is to be known that, as has<br />
been said before, if he was bishop of the ancient Britons, accord<strong>in</strong>g to the<br />
decrees of the blessed father Gregory he was the suffragan of the church of<br />
Canterbury.<br />
"<br />
But if perchance because of the nearness of the prov<strong>in</strong>ces he ought<br />
to be regarded, although by change of place and people, as a bishop of the<br />
Picts, none the less is he subject to the church of Canterbury, <strong>in</strong>asmuch as<br />
he was appo<strong>in</strong>ted and created by archbishop Theodore, as Bede bears witness.<br />
"<br />
Nevertheless, as is found <strong>in</strong> the records 'of those holy men, Columba,<br />
to wit, priest and abbot, who, as Bede relates, first preached Christ to the<br />
peoples of the Scots and Picts, before the arrival of St. August<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong> Brita<strong>in</strong>,<br />
and the venerable bishop Kentigern, who first ruled the church of Glasgow,<br />
<strong>this</strong> was not a bishop of Whithorn whom Theodore appo<strong>in</strong>ted, but he was one<br />
of those ancient bishops of the peoples of Brita<strong>in</strong> whom, as has often been<br />
said above, St. Gregory subjected severally to the church of Canterbury."<br />
Kentigern is said to have been born about 516 at Culross, and to have<br />
died on the 13th January, 601 ; cf. Keith, Sc. Bps., 231. The Ann. Cambr.<br />
appear to place his. death <strong>in</strong> 612.<br />
The next recorded occupation of the see is that of John, who was nomi-<br />
nated by David, and consecrated by Paschal II, probably<br />
i, 14 ; Inquisitio Davidis, ibid., ii, 18.<br />
<strong>in</strong> 1117 ;<br />
H.<br />
& S.,