In the 1180^th year John abbot of Kelso died; Osbert prior of St Machutus¹ succeeded him. A great controversy which was at issue between the house of Melrose and Richard de Moreville over the heath and pasture between the Gala and Leader was determined in the presence of William king of Scots and Earl David his brother, and before innumerable other people both ecclesiastical and lay, at Haddington, on the Sunday in mid-Lent;² and with the help of God he [Richard] yielded to the monks their right in this area,³ such that, namely, possession was adjudged to them by virtue of their charters and the authority of privileges of the Roman Church. ¶A venerable man and outstanding in knowledge and holiness, Baldwin abbot of Ford is elected as bishop of Worcester, and the Lord looked to his humility, who although to many he would have revealed the merit of life, however humility alone elevated him in the Lord’s sight. For neither he did not look to the world but despised it, nor did he take heed of those who trampled on honours. ¶Alexis, subdean of the Roman Church and nuncio of the apostolic see, in order to get to know the truth about the matter of the Church of St Andrews—with John the [bishop] elect [who] entered the kingdom of Scotland with William barely allowing it—upset a great number of people, and the king’s heart was provoked to anger. ¶John elect of St Andrews is sent by the lord pope A[lexander]; he had been confirmed in the Curia, but for the sake of the dignity of the church of St Andrews and the king’s honour, he was to be consecrated in the episcopal see by the bishops he wished. The aforesaid Alexis, after many consultations and more complaints—some of the king’s clerks were still excommunicated, and there was also an interdict on the bishopric of St Andrews—caused John, once bishops, abbots and men in religious orders had been called together, to be consecrated magnificently as bishop of the aforementioned see at Maidens’ Castle⁴ in the Church of the Holy Rood in the octaves of Pentecost, that is on 8 June, by Matthew bishop of Aberdeen on the order of the lord pope A[lexander]. But John, realising that he was consecrated but without [possession of] the bishopric, suddenly in sorrow left the province, extremely afraid of the king and the anger of royal power, and took himself to safer places.





In the 1181^st year William of Toulouse abbot of Cîteaux, of pious memory, died; Peter abbot of Pontigny succeeded him. Louis king of France, a pious and religious man who despised the worthless world, honourably handed over his kingdom, which he governed vigorously for 44 years, to his son Philip. Now, inspired by God, he afterwards hastened humbly to the Cistercian order at the abbey which is called Port⁵ which he founded, and in the same year he passed away blissfully from his mortal body. William king of Scots and his brother Earl David took themselves to overseas regions to King Henry the elder for the sake of their own business. Great lightning and thunder and storms and inundations of water in various places in England. Many and great miracles at St Edmund by the blessed boy Robert, who a certain Jew cruelly and secretly consigned to a violent death. Similarly at Huntingdon strange things happened concerning another boy, named Herbert, who his own father tied wickedly to a post and wretchedly killed in water which flowed near that town. ¶A comet appeared in the month of July. Bishop Jocelin exalted the episcopal see and gloriously enlarged the church of St Kentigern. On 30 August Pope Alexander III of pious memory died in the 23^rd year of his pontificate; Lucius III, who was also Hubald bishop of Ostia, succeeded him. Robert⁶ archbishop of York died on 22 November in the 27^th year of his episcopate.