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302 SCOTTISH ANNALS
of all his displeasure which the wickedness of certain scandalmakers
has engendered with regard to this bishop, and to
cultivate royal dignity and the wholesome works of piety ;
and to permit him henceforth to possess quietly and without
counter-claim the diocese of St. Andrews, which by common
counsel and consent of the brethren the chief pontiff has
confirmed to him for ever ; since [John] also is prepared,
as is consonant with reason, to be in all things obedient and
faithful.
"Farewell." 1
Letter of lord pope Clement to all the clergy of St. Andrews
in Scotland, on behalf of bishop John.
"
Bishop Clement, servant of the servants of God, to all
the clergy of the bishopric of St. Andrews, greeting and
apostolic benediction.
"
Although in doubtful matters some may be able to
show forth their cunning or malice ; yet when the difficulty
and the point of doubt have been removed, and the evidences
of truth have appeared by manifest testimonies, wholly must
the by-paths be shunned and the paths of truth be both sought
out and followed, lest (as Heaven forbid) for those who act
otherwise, and persist in their obstinacy, after present
castigations and deserved penalties the destruction of death
eternal be their meed, and everlasting punishment.
"
Wishing therefore with paternal solicitude to look forward
for your welfare, and to provide for your benefit and
peace, we command and charge you all by apostolic script,
and enjoin upon you in virtue of obedience, that within fifteen
days after the receipt of this you receive our venerable brother
John, canonically appointed to the episcopal office, as your
chief father and pastor, humbly and devoutly ; and laying
aside all animosity by no means neglect to offer henceforward
due reverence to his wholesome counsels and commands.
" But knowing that if after Hugh, who was once called
your bishop, has been removed by the Roman church from
the dignity of your bishopric, or after his decease, John, now
called your bishop, surviving, you have perchance elected as
bishop someone else, we annul that election by apostolic
authority.
1 Hoveden adds a date (in margin of MS. A :)
" Given at Pisa, on the
seventeenth before the Kalends of February, in the sixth indiction " [16th
January, 1188.] MS. G reads: " in the fifth indiction " [1187]. Hoved.
places this letter and the next immediately after the two given supra, 1188,
February. Cf. infra, note upon the next letter.