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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 145
Alexander, unless the [arch]bishop and convent of Canterbury
and the king of the English give me other counsel
regarding it."
II2I
SYMEON OF DURHAM, HISTORIA REGTJM, VOL. II, P. 259, S.A.
1121. *
Edmer, monk of the church of Canterbury, the previous
year elected to the bishopric of the church of St. Andrew of
the nation of the Scots, gave up his purpose of ruling the
bishopric, and returned to his own place.
II2I
EDMER, HISTORIA NOVORUM, PP. 285-288. (Continued.)
Under these circumstances they parted in peace and
;
Edmer came to Canterbury, and was joyfully received by
the [archjbishop and by his brethren. For he was beloved
by all and as ; they had been saddened by his absence, so
in his presence they were made exceeding joyful.
But the king sent by his envoy one letter in accusation
of him to the archbishop, of the following content :
" Alexander, by God's grace king of the Scots, to Ralph,
reverend archbishop of Canterbury, ever to live in Him who
is life.
" To your immeasurable goodness in yielding to my re-
quest, and sending to me a person to be raised to the bishopric
of St. Andrews, the friendly and, as is right, submissive
affection of my mind returns unnumbered thanks.
"
But the person when placed in the bishopric would not
yield to the customs of the land and the manners of the folk,
as affairs and occasion demanded, and as would have been
right and necessary. And at last this person besought of
me, in the presence of certain bishops and earls and good
men of my land, that I would grant him permission to retire,
and freedom from the allegiance which he had made to me :
since on no account would he remain, unless I detained him
in captivity. Hearing this I answered him in these words,
that if he could show that any wrongs had been inflicted
upon him by me, in word or in deed, or that I had failed in
any of the things which I ought to have done for him, I was
most willingly ready, for love of God and for my own honour,
1 So Hoved., i, 178.