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