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298 SCOTTISH ANNALS
we can, and admonish thee in the Lord, that in reverence for
the apostolic see and for us thou accept, commended and received
in the bowels of charity, the said bishop John, whom
we and our brethren have chosen with sincere heart, for his
honourable character and ; that, laying aside any offence there
may have been of indignation conceived, thou treat him in all
things with royal clemency and kindness.
" Indeed we believe that by his industry and uprightness he
will be able to cause much gain to thee and thy kingdom, the
Lord favouring. And to us also how gratifying it would be,
i f our prayers should produce the desired effect upon thy royal
ears.
" Given at Pisa, the seventeenth before the Kalends of
February,
in the sixth indiction." 1
1188
BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, GESTA HENRICI II, VOL. II,
pp. 43-44. 2
Hearing this the king of Scots aforesaid, following
at last
the counsel of his friends, received 3 John, bishop of Dunkeld ;
on this condition, that John himself should quit-claim for ever
the episcopate of St. Andrews from his pretension ; and so it
was done by him, and at the king's mercy. 4
And lastly Hugh, formerly bishop of St. Andrews, now deposed
and placed again in the sentence of anathema by the chief
pontiff, set out for Rome to be absolved. And when he had
come thither he gave surety of standing before the judgment
of the church, and was judged worthy of absolution.
But he survived few days. For in the month of August
in the Romulean city such became the corruption of the air
that many cardinals and richer men of the city perished, with
an innumerable multitude of the people. And Hugh himself
perished, with nearly
all his household. 5
1 16th January, 1188. MS. Gof Hoveden omits " in the sixth indiction."
2 Cf. Hoved., ii, 353.
3 " Received into his favour bishop John aforesaid ; and granted that
he should possess in peace the bishopric of Dunkeld, and all the revenues
which he had before his consecration." Hoved., u.s.
4 "
And he, although he had been protected by the aforesaid letters of
the lord pope, yet in all things obeyed the will of the king, and quit-claimed
the episcopate of St. Andrews from his pretension, in the mercy of God and
of the king : '
knowing that better is a morsel of bread with joy, than a
house full of sacrifices with strife.' "
(Proverbs, XV11, 1.) Hoved., u.s.
5 Cf. B. of P., ii, 60 (resume).