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142 SCOTTISH ANNALS
[Edmer] wished to ask the episcopal benediction of Canterbury,
[the king] was disturbed in his mind, and rising departed
from him. For he would not that the church of Canterbury
should be placed before the church of St. Andrew of Scotland.
He therefore called William, a monk of St. Edmund's,
(who after Turgot had been set over this bishopric, and had
almost drained it,) and instructed him to remain as he used
to be in the bishopric, plundering the newly invested bishop.
A whole month had passed after this, and such lands of
the bishopric as remained had been wholly drained [of revenue]
when according to the wish of the princes of the realm king
Alexander met with the bishop elect and with difficulty obtained
from him that, because [the king] was planning to
lead an army against his enemies, [Edmer] should receive
the pastoral staff from off the altar, as if from the hand of
God, that so he might apply himself thenceforth in so far as
he could to the care of all souls in the whole realm. After
this [Edmer] came to the church of St. Andrew and there
;
the queen met him, and he was received by the scholars and
by the people, and succeeded to the office of bishop.
Meanwhile Thurstan [archbishop] of York delayed thus
long in foreign parts, and exerted himself manfully
in his
affair above-mentioned ; and incited the English king even
to this, that once in writing he commanded the [arch]bishop
of Canterbury, and the king of Scots three times, that neither
should the former consecrate the elect of St. Andrews, nor
should the latter by any reason permit him to be consecrated.
And this thing wounded the feelings of many and set them
at variance, and in no small degree disabled the bishop elect
from applying himself in the capacity of bishop to the correction
of Christians. Therefore those were encouraged who
were minded to obey their own pleasures rather than the
commands of God and the correction which ; they dreaded
of their customs they now mocked fearlessly.
To be brief, the king himself became alarmed by the
English king's commands, and began thenceforward to have
the man in less honour in his presence, and gradually to reduce
his [revenues.] And [Edmer] observed this, and most
surely knowing that he could effect but little for God in his
realm if [the king] were opposed to him proposed to go to
Canterbury, and seek thence counsel as to what best he should
do in such a case.
But when he made this known to the king, [the king] said
that [Edmer] had been wholly released from the church of