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152 SCOTTISH ANNALS
" But that the affair has turned out differently from what
was the course of our common purpose must be ascribed, I
doubt not, to God's dispensation, which no one can penetrate
or escape. What I have learnt, however, upon my departure
from the bishopric I would make known to your sacred confidence,
if the opportunity were given me of speaking more
privately with you. For though in the body I departed from
you, yet know surely that I will not, with God's help, violate
the allegiance which I owe to you. And hence I shall faith-
fully seek your honour and the honour of your kingdom, if
you despise not, in every way I can, be He witness, who
truly and alone surveys my conscience. And I say not this
because I greatly desired to be bishop in your kingdom, but
because I would that the dignity of your land be increased
rather than diminished.
"
Moreover may your Beatitude know that all who hear
how I was chosen, received and installed in the bishopric,
and how I was put in the place of the bishop, with one voice
declare that neither can I rightfully resign the bishopric, nor
can another while I live, according to the law of the Lord,
be put in my place. For neither can a man legally give up
his wife or a wife her husband, in order to marry another.
But perhaps you say, ' Thou
it : but (may I say it with your peace)
hast resigned it.' I did resign
under the influence
of force which I was unable to oppose. For seeing that constant
discord and endless hostilities were directed against
me on your behalf by those whom I knew to be your friends
unless I wholly abandoned the bishopric, and seeing that your
conduct towards me agreed therewith, and the confiscation by
which you despoiled me, without law or justice, of necessity
I resigned what was taken from me and I could not keep.
" But to treat of these things in the short space of a letter
is not conveniently practicable. Wherefore I pass them
over ; and in brief , if you allow it with your peace, and wish,
as is becoming to your royal Highness, to assist my return
to you with honour to complete in your
land God's service
and yours, according to God's will, I suggest that I shall
endeavour to undertake the journey and in all things to obey
your will, unless (which God forbid) it seem to oppose the
will of God.
" But if you will not at all agree to this, I can do no more ;
to God I commit his church's cause : let him see, let him
dispose, let him assign
to each in this his affair what each
deserves. I have freed, as I think, my soul ; I have laid