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164 SCOTTISH ANNALS
but that he wished this church
to the bishop of St. Andrews ;
to be freer and quitter from all service than any other church
in Lothian, for the sake of the love of his brethren the monks
of Durham.
The following
said this :
were there present at the time when he
Robert, clerk, brother of the same bishop ; Blahan, priest
of Linton ; Adulf, priest of Aldehamstoc ; Henry, priest of
Lienhall 1
; Orm, priest of Houm 2 ; Osbern, priest of Ednam ;
John, priest of Legerwood ; Godwin, butler of the same
bishop ; Godwin, his treasurer ; and Baldsan, and many
others who were present as witnesses when the bishop said
this.
1128
SYMEON OF DURHAM, HISTORIA REGUM, VOL. II, p. 281.
In the year 1128 the abbacy was removed from Selkirk 3
to Kelso, near Roxburgh ; and the church of St. Mary was
founded for the aforesaid monks of Tiron, and there the
devout king David enriched it with great gifts and beautified
it with many adornments, and endowed it nobly with broad
lands and possessions.
1128
JOHN OF WORCESTER, IN FL. OF W., VOL. II, p. 89,
S.A. 1128.
Upon the request of David, brother and successor of
Alexander, Thurstan archbishop of York consecrated at York
as bishop Robert, whom Alexander, king of Scotland, had
intruded upon the church of St. Andrews. In this ceremony
[Thurstan] summoned to him as helpers Ranulf [Flambard,]
bishop of Durham, and a certain Ralph [Nowel], long since
ordained bishop of the Orkney isles.4
But because he had been ordained neither by election nor
5
consent of the prince of the land, or the clergy, or the people,
this Ralph [Nowel] was opposed by all, and by none received
as bishop. 6
1
I.e. Coldstream.
3
Cf. supra, s.a. 1113.
5
f. W. of M., G.R., ii, 485 :
2 Hume ?
4
Cf. supra, s.a. 1114.
" Paul, earl of the Orkneys, although sub-
ject by hereditary right to the king of the Norwegians, so regarded king
[Henry I's] esteem that he sent him frequent presents. For [Henry] took
ready delight in viewing the wonders of foreign lands. . . ."
6 A letter (1119x1124) of pope Calixtus II on Ralph Nowel's behalf
"
Bishop Calixtus, servant of the servants
appears in Raine's York, iii, 39 :