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134 SCOTTISH ANNALS
canonical obedience to the church of York and to archbishop
Thomas and his successors.
He lived for some time with the archbishop, and by his
command dedicated churches in our diocese, and made orders.
He rests buried in the church of Morland, where by a happy end
he departed to God.
Kinsi, archbishop of York, 1 had consecrated his predecessors
Magsuea and John, as we have learned from truthful men
who testified that they had seen it done. But because of
hostile invasion and desolation and the barbarity of the land
for long the church was without a pastor, until earl David (afterwards
king of Scotland) appointed as bishop Michael aforesaid,
and sent him over to be consecrated by archbishop Thomas.
And Thomas ordained as bishop of the Orkney isles Ralph, 2
a priest of the town of York, elected by the Orcadians in the
church of St. Peter. His predecessors 3 had been ordained
by our archbishops : Ralph, 4 by Thomas I ; and Roger, 5 a
monk of the monastery of Whitby, by Gerard. 6
1 Kinsi received the pallium in 1055 ; A.S.C., MS. D ; and died on the
21st December, 1060 ; A.S.C., MSS. D, E. Cf. supra, s.a. 1059.
"
Chr. of the Abps., in Raine's York, ii, 343-344 : [Kinsi] ordained
Magsuea " [Mac Suein ? in text, Magsuem] " as bishop of the church of
Glasgow ; likewise also he consecrated the successor of that Magsuea, John,
elected to the same church. And he received from them documents of profession
; but in the conflagration made by the Normans of the church of
York these were burned, along with the ornaments and books and the privileges
and other charters." St. Peter's Minster was burned down by the
Normans before the Danes reached York in the northern rising against
William I ; v. A.S.C., MS. D, s.a. 1069.
2 For Ralph Nowel v. infra, s.a. 1128.
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Chr. of the Abps. of York, in Raine's York, ii, 372 : Ralph also, a
priest of the town of York, elected by the Orcadians in the church of St.
Peter, the same Thomas [II] ordained as bishop of the Orkney isles. And
'
[Ralph] made and gave him written profession, which thus : begins I,
Ralph, of the holy Orcadian church,' etc."
3 For the earlier history of the see, ca. 1055, cf. Adam of Bremen, in
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M.G.H., SS., vii, 366 : Moreover [Adalbert, archbishop of Bremen] appointed
a certain Thurolf to the Orkneys. Thither also he sent John,
ordained in Scotland, and one Adalbert, his namesake."
"
Ibid, 384 : To the same Orkney islands, although formerly they were
ruled by bishops of the English and the Scots, our primate by order of the
pope ordained Thurolf as bishop in the city of Blascona, to direct the affairs
of all."
4 For Ralph I cf. supra, s.a. 1077.
5
Cf. Chr. of Abps., in Raine's York, ii, 367 :
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[Gerard] also ordained
Ralph's successor Roger as bishop of the Orkneys, first having received from
'
him profession, which thus : begins I, Roger, now to be ordained bishop
of the holy Orcadian church,' etc." Cf. the letter of Anselm, in H. & S.,
ii, 167-168.
6 Gerard was archbishop of York 1102-1108 ; cf. W. of M., G.P., 259;
A.S.C., MS. E, s.a. 1108; H.S., in Raine's York, ii, 110-111, where he is
stated to have died on the 21st of : May Chr. of Abps., ibid., ii, 365-366.
Cf. the letter of pope Paschal II, in Raine's York, iii, 22 :
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