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304 SCOTTISH ANNALS
"It is well known, then, that certain prelates of churches
ought according to apostolic law with those who have been
caused to stumble, to suffer burning and with the ; weak
to become weak. 1
"
But how great persecutions the church of St. Andrews
has suffered in these times, how many calamities she has
sustained, and molestations, indeed how seriously till now
she has been distressed and shaken under the shadow of the
indignation of the royal Majesty ; moreover, how great and
how many perils and labours our venerable brother John,
bishop of St. Andrews, has sustained for the sake of preserving
the liberty of the church intrusted to him, and confirmed
to him by us and by two of our predecessors : since these
things are all manifest to you, it seems needless to impress
them upon your ears.
"
Since therefore it is now discerned to be most important
that, to restore the royal welfare and the state of the aforesaid
church, and to bestow peace upon the bishop, we agree
to employ befitting solicitude, and rely upon your circumspection
to support us fitly : we command your Discretion
by apostolic script and charge you that, after receipt of our
letters, you come together, as becomes men of foresight and
prudence, and go to the presence of our dearest son William,
illustrious king of Scotland, and admonish him very heedfully,
and very urgently induce him to lay aside from the
said bishop the rancour of his indignation, and not in this
to spurn the Roman church, which has now for long deferred
to his royal Serenity : but upon admonition of her and of you,
as becomes the royal glory and welfare, without delay to
obey salutarily and humbly to acquiesce ;
and to permit this
bishop to have in peace the diocese of St. Andrews, since it
is held as of the obligation of royal dignity not to scatter
but to foster the churches with their pastors, not to despise
but to love, not to persecute but to protect.
" And if he should think fit to resist the apostolic ad-
monitions to the peril of his own safety, (which heaven forbid,)
proclaim the sentence of interdict upon the kingdom of his
royal Majesty, and upon his person, and upon all his royal
supporters, to be pronounced by you, with apostolic authority,
within twenty days, without obstruction of appeal. And
smite with a like sentence those also who have been obedient
to Hugh, and have given him nourishment in his obstinacy,
after the apostolic see has removed him from the diocese of
1 2 Corinthians, XI, 29.