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PART VII<br />

1180<br />

BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, GESTA HENRICI II, VOL. I,<br />

pp. 250-251, S.A. 1180. 1<br />

IN the same year died R[ichard], bishop of St. Andrews. 2<br />

In the same year John, surnamed Scott, the elect to the<br />

bishopric of St. Andrews <strong>in</strong> <strong>Scotland</strong>, returned from Alexander,<br />

the chief pontiff, to whom he had made compla<strong>in</strong>t that after<br />

election of himself had been <strong>can</strong>onically made k<strong>in</strong>g William<br />

of <strong>Scotland</strong> had <strong>in</strong>truded Hugh, his chapla<strong>in</strong>, upon the<br />

bishopric of St. Andrews ; and had caused him to be consecrated<br />

after appeal had been made to the apostolic see.<br />

To learn t<strong>here</strong>fore the rights of <strong>this</strong> case Alexander, the<br />

chief pontiff, sent to <strong>Scotland</strong> with the aforesaid John a cer-<br />

ta<strong>in</strong> priest of his, Alexius, subdeacon of the Roman church .;<br />

command<strong>in</strong>g<br />

that if it should be clear to him that the afore-<br />

said John had been <strong>can</strong>onically elected, and that the aforesaid<br />

Hugh had been consecrated after appeal had been made to<br />

the apostolic see, thrust <strong>in</strong> not by zeal for justice but by<br />

tyranny, he should publish to all that <strong>this</strong> Hugh was degraded<br />

by the chief pontiff himself, all right of appeal be<strong>in</strong>g at an<br />

end.<br />

Moreover the chief pontiff granted to the same Alexius<br />

the office of legate <strong>in</strong> the whole land of the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>,<br />

and <strong>in</strong> the adjacent islands, and <strong>in</strong> Ireland, to learn the rights<br />

of ecclesiastical cases which arose <strong>in</strong> these lands, and to term<strong>in</strong>ate<br />

them as God should impart to him.<br />

1 Cf. Hoved., ii, 208.<br />

2 Richard's death is placed <strong>in</strong> 1178 by Chr. of Melr., 88; <strong>in</strong> 1179 by<br />

Chr. of Holyr., 44.<br />

"<br />

And on his death t<strong>here</strong> was immediately a schism about the election<br />

of a bishop. For the <strong>can</strong>ons of the church of St. Andrews chose for themselves<br />

as bishop master John, surnamed Scott ; and William k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots<br />

chose Hugh, his chapla<strong>in</strong>, and caused him to be consecrated by the bishops<br />

of his . . k<strong>in</strong>gdom. ." Hoved., ii, 208.<br />

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