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sible for you, to select the said bishop John, (a man of good
repute, and acceptable to us and to our brethren for his honourable
character,) for the rule and prelacy in that church, without
scruple of difficulty on the part of anyone.
" And if you cannot all concern yourselves with attending
to this, none the less let two of your number attend to it.
" Given at Pisa, on the twelfth l before the Kalends of
February, in the sixth indiction."
Letter of Pope Clement III to William, king of Scots.
"
Bishop Clement, servant of the servants of God, to William,
illustrious king of Scots, greeting and apostolic benediction.
" We consider that we should offend the eyes of divine
Majesty in no small degree if through heedlessness we should
leave without due restraint the excesses of prelates whi'ch we
cannot with good conscience indulge.
"
And hence since pope Urban of good memory, our predecessor,
commanded under pain of excommunication Hugh,
formerly called bishop of St. Andrews, on a fixed day to present
himself before the apostolic presence, to answer in law because
of the controversy which existed between him and our vener-
able brother bishop John and since he from ; contumacy
despised to come, being conscious of his actions, and with
reason fearing the result of the : judgment so we, because of
this and of many other things which, spread by rumour, caused
scandal to the church of God, have by authority of the apostolic
see,- with counsel and assent of the brethren, adjudged him for
ever removed from the episcopate of St. Andrews, and suspended
from the use of the episcopal office till such time as the
apostolic see shall think fit to decide otherwise concerning him ;
absolving his subjects from the fealty by which they were held
bound to him.
"
For although we have the firm purpose of regarding thy
honour and benefit, in as far as with God we can, and in the
case of Hugh aforesaid the Roman court has hitherto deferred
to thy royal Serenity, not without the carping of many ; yet
because the noise of it has reached us on indubitable authority,
we can no longer pass over his misdeeds in dissimulation, with
closed eyes. And because of this we believe that nothing has
been done in this regard by which thy royal mind ought to be
disturbed in any " way.
But we ask thy Devotion, with prayer and all the affection
1 21st January, 1188.