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282 SCOTTISH ANNALS
William, illustrious king of Scots, inflexibly opposed the
election and consecration of our venerable brother bishop
John, by pretext of a letter of our predecessor pope Alexander
of holy memory Roger, of good memory, archbishop of York,
and the already mentioned bishop pronounced upon him and
the kingdom and certain men of the realm the sentence of
excommunication .
" But our venerable brother Joscelin, bishop of Glasgow,
and our beloved sons Arnold of Melrose and Osbert of Kelso,
abbots, and Walter prior of St. Columba de Insula have
come because of this to the apostolic see, and have shown
us by their statements, and have made clear in presence of
us and of the brethren, that the archbishop, in the sentence
of excommunication upon the king and of interdict upon the
kingdom, and the already mentioned bishop in the sentence
of excommunication upon certain men of the realm, pronounced
a sentence which for manifold reasons may justifiably
be repealed.
" Hence indeed it has been that, deferring
to the afore-
said king as to our dearest son in Christ, we have relaxed by
apostolic authority, and from common counsel of the brethren,
every sentence of the already named bishop for the aforesaid
cause, pronounced upon him or his or upon his kingdom ;
and have pronounced that he and his are not bound by the
excommunication, nor his kingdom by the interdict, in our
sentence aforesaid.
" And we therefore instruct you all by apostolic writings
and command that you hesitate not at all to associate yourselves
with him as with a catholic king, and one having the
communion of the apostolic see ;
him in all
but that you pay
things befitting honour.
"
For inasmuch as we are surer of the sincerity of his
devotion, and that greater profit will most surely accrue to
the churches and ecclesiastics of his kingdom, so much the
more fully do we wish, in all things in which by God's will
we can, to honour him.
" Given at Velletri, the 16th l before the Kalends of
April."
1182
BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, GESTA HENRICI II, VOL. I,
pp. 289-290. 2
Meanwhile Roland, elect of Dol in Brittany, came to
1 17th March. 2 Cf. Hoved., ii, 270.