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160 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

mise to preserve henceforth due subjection, as appo<strong>in</strong>ted<br />

by the holy fathers, and <strong>can</strong>onical obedience to the holy<br />

church of York ; and to thee, archbishop Thurstan, and to<br />

thy successors <strong>can</strong>onically appo<strong>in</strong>ted.<br />

1125, Dec.<br />

POPE HONORIUS II TO JOHN OF GLASGOW ;<br />

VOL. Ill, PP. 49-50.<br />

IN RAINE'S YORK,<br />

Bishop Honorius, servant of the servants of God, to his<br />

venerable brother, the bishop of Glasgow, greet<strong>in</strong>g and<br />

apostolic benediction.<br />

It has often been enjo<strong>in</strong>ed upon thy Fraternity by apostolic<br />

writ<strong>in</strong>gs to yield obedience to our venerable brother Thurstan,<br />

archbishop of York, as to thy proper metropolitan. But<br />

thou hast not yet obeyed the apostolic commands. T<strong>here</strong>fore<br />

by the present writ<strong>in</strong>gs we order and command thee to<br />

yield obedience and honour to the same brother of ours,<br />

Thurstan, archbishop of York, as to thy metropolitan.<br />

Given at the Lateran, the fifth l before the Ides of December.<br />

1126<br />

HUGH SOTTEWAIN, ARCHBISHOPS OF YORK, IN RAINE'S YORK,<br />

VOL. II, PP. 214-215. 2<br />

Because now our archbishop [Thurstan] saw <strong>in</strong> the court 3<br />

master John, bishop of Glasgow, it was not his purpose to<br />

be silent concern<strong>in</strong>g him. He compla<strong>in</strong>ed t<strong>here</strong>fore that <strong>this</strong><br />

John, elected as his suffragan <strong>in</strong> the church of York, and<br />

through his letters consecrated by pope Paschal [II], afterwards<br />

refused to show any obedience or honour for letters<br />

(which he caused to be <strong>read</strong> t<strong>here</strong>) of the same pope Paschal<br />

and of Calixtus. When these letters had been heard, he was<br />

understood to be bound by them to some extent.<br />

Likewise also he compla<strong>in</strong>ed of the bishops of <strong>Scotland</strong>.<br />

From the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g of their arrival the lord pope had been<br />

persuaded by certa<strong>in</strong> men that <strong>Scotland</strong> was not part of the<br />

k<strong>in</strong>gdom of England. For they wished to ask for a pallium<br />

for the bishop of St. Andrews, and that thus he should be<br />

1 9th December.<br />

2 Cf. Chr. of Abps., <strong>in</strong> Ra<strong>in</strong>e's York, ii, 383-384.<br />

3 In the council held at Rome to settle the dispute<br />

between the archbishops<br />

of York and Canterbury. The archbishops had been summoned to<br />

Rome for the 2nd February, 1126; H.S., u.s., 209. (Thurstan had been<br />

robbed on the way ; ibid., 212.)

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