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284 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

Letter of Roland, elect of Dol, and Silvan, abbot of Rievaulx,<br />

to the chief pontiff Lucius.<br />

" To the reverend father and lord, Lucius, by God's grace<br />

chief and universal pontiff, Roland, by the same grace elect<br />

of Dol, servant and pupil of his Hol<strong>in</strong>ess, least of the subdeacons<br />

of the apostolic see, and Silvan, elected abbot of<br />

Rievaulx, the reverence of due subjection.<br />

" S<strong>in</strong>ce we had given letters to bishop Hugh which the<br />

same bishop denounced as false ; and<br />

s<strong>in</strong>ce, hav<strong>in</strong>g received<br />

permission from the lord k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>, we wished to<br />

return <strong>in</strong> haste those <strong>in</strong> which is conta<strong>in</strong>ed the process of the<br />

matter, the lord k<strong>in</strong>g asked me, elect of Dol, k<strong>in</strong>dly and<br />

affectionately, that I would <strong>in</strong> pass<strong>in</strong>g visit lord bishop John,<br />

and offer him on [the k<strong>in</strong>g's] behalf the bishopric of Dunkeld,<br />

with the revenues which he had had before <strong>in</strong> the bishopric<br />

of St. Andrews, and with the addition of forty marks to be<br />

received yearly ; also the k<strong>in</strong>g's royal chancellorship, as a<br />

mark of affection. And he added that he would restore to<br />

him and his all that had been taken away, except only what<br />

he knew had reached his hands and that he would receive<br />

;<br />

them <strong>in</strong> the fulness of'his favour, as had been offered to him<br />

before. Yet he wished that the same bishop John should<br />

burn all his documents which had been obta<strong>in</strong>ed concern<strong>in</strong>g<br />

the case of St. Andrews from Alexander of pious memory,<br />

your predecessor.<br />

" He permitted also that bishop Hugh should be transferred<br />

to the bishopric of Glasgow, 1 if otherwise bishop John<br />

would not consent ; and if it could not be done, he would<br />

yet grant what he had offered, but he would not love bishop<br />

John so much, nor restore to him his full favour.<br />

" And when I had offered all these th<strong>in</strong>gs to master John<br />

<strong>in</strong> presence of master Hugh, bishop of Durham, he k<strong>in</strong>dly<br />

agreed, say<strong>in</strong>g that he would never permit bishop Hugh -to<br />

rema<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> the church of St. Andrews. And he wished the<br />

aforesaid documents to be deposited somew<strong>here</strong>, so that he<br />

might never use them contrary to the k<strong>in</strong>g's will.<br />

" Thus, t<strong>here</strong>fore, when we returned to the royal presence,<br />

bishop John await<strong>in</strong>g near Roxburgh, the lord k<strong>in</strong>g proposed<br />

to us that it would much please him if bishop Hugh could<br />

rema<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> the church of St. Andrews. And he asked me to<br />

labour to br<strong>in</strong>g the bishop to <strong>this</strong>. And when I told him<br />

that I would never henceforth ask him about <strong>this</strong>, because <strong>in</strong><br />

1199.'<br />

1 The bishopric of Glasgow was still occupied by Joscel<strong>in</strong>, who lived till

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