aput Pert tenuit generale concilium quatuor diebus continuis
incipiens ab
octauis Assump’ Purificationis. ¶Dominus Alexander rex
Scot’ die Sabbati proxima ante festum Sancti
Iohannis Baptiste, aput Eboracum
assumpsit sibi reginam nomine, Iohannam filiam Iohannis regis,
& sororem
Henrici regis Anglie, & celebratis splendidissime prout
decuit
nupciis exultantibus uniuersis utriusque regni
indigenis adduxit eam in Scociam. ¶iiii
nonas Augusti, obiit dompnus Ricardus,
abbas de Kelcou, cui successit dompnus Herberetus
Maunsel secretarius
eiusdem domus. ¶Obiit Philippus de Stichil. ¶Eodem anno tradita est
domina
Margareta fila1 pie recordationis
Willelmi regis Scot’ & soror domini Alexandri
regis domino Huberto de Burc, iusticiario Anglie in
uxorem, per consensum utriusque regis,
Anglie scilicet & Scot’ & consilium magnatum utriusque regni. ¶Eodem anno ciuitas il
la famosa que dicitur Damieta nuper a
Christo Christianis adquisita, sed ab eisdem nimis eneruiter
⁊ negligenter
custodita iterum a paganis est obsessa, ⁊ in uigilia Decollacionis beati Iohannis
Baptiste de potestate Christianorum penitus ablata. Quibus tamen meritis uel quo Dei
iudicio hoc
euenerit ignoratur. Maxime cum iam tunc in dicta ciuitate diuini
cultus excellencia mag
nifice ceperat exaltari.
Novus etc2
*
Anno Domini moccoxxiio obiit Bricius Mureuensis episcopus, cui successit magister Andreas
de
Mureuia. ¶Obiit dompnus Alexander abbas de Der, in itinere uersus capitulum generale,
aput Vallem beate Marie, viii idus Septembris. ¶In
reditu eciam ab eodem
capitulo obiit dompnus Gaufridus abbas de Dundreinan in
domo de
Alba Ripa. ¶Eodem anno pie recordationis pater, ⁊ pastor egregius
do
minus Adam episcopus Kateniensis, quondam abbas Melrosensis, & uere
monachus ordinis Cisterciensis una cum commonacho suo3 nomine Serlone dia
cono de Neubotl’ per
multiplicis passionis triumphum, feliciter ut credimus
ad supernorum ciuium meruit
peruenire consorcium. Neque enim
conuenit ut eorum estimetur in celis priuari
consorcio quorum in terris positus
meruit participare martirio, precipue cum pro
rigore iusticie, uidelicet
pro exaccione decimarum iuxta consuetudinem
institucionis ecclesiastice,
mori magis elegerit, ⁊ instar pastoris optimi animam
pro ouibus ponere
quam gregem sibi creditum in errore pristino diucius sineret
permanere. Cum igitur cau
sa que martirem facit pocius quam pena precesserit satis
euidens ⁊ iusta
necnon ⁊ pena passionis subsecuta fuerit inmanissima, iniuriam
ponti
fici irrogare probatur qui minus illi honoris aut meriti quam alicui alii
sanctorum martirum asscribendum ⁊ exibendum arbitratur, maxime
cum multa solus
sanctorum martirum sustinuisse supplicia cognoscatur.
Post minas enim seuissimas,
⁊ /crebra\ uerborum couicia4 post liuorem uerberum
*Nouus siquidem episcopus in ipsa ciuitate ordinatus mille talentorum
redditus habebat.
Preterea xl canonici erant in eadem ciuitate quorum quilibet
centum habebat talenta
¶per annum.
held a general council at Perth which lasted four days in a
row, beginning on the octave of the Assump Purification. ¶The lord Alexander,
king of Scots, on the Saturday next before the feast of St John the Baptist, took to
himself at York a queen named Joan, a daughter of King John and sister of Henry the king
of England; and after they had celebrated the marriage with the utmost magnificence,
just as they should, he brought
her to Scotland, while all who dwelt in either kingdom rejoiced. ¶Dom Richard, abbot of
Kelso, died on 2 August; Dom Herbert Maunsel, the secretary of that house, succeeded
him. ¶Philip de Stichill died. ¶In the same year, the lady Margaret, daughter of
William, king of Scots of blessed memory, and sister of the lord king, Alexander, was
given as wife to Sir Hubert de Burgh, the justiciar of England, with the consent of the king on either
side, that is, of England and of Scotland, and the advice
of the magnates of either kingdom. ¶In the same year, that
famous city which is called Damietta, recently secured by Christ for the Christians, but
too weakly and carelessly defended, was again besieged by the pagans and, on the vigil
of the Beheading of blessed John the Baptist, wholly taken from the power of the
Christians. By what deserts, however, or by what judgement of God this came about, it is
not known; especially since already at the time the excellence of the worship of God had
commenced to be praised in a magnificent fashion in the said city.
For, indeed, etc.1
*
In the 1222nd year of the Lord,
Brice, bishop of Moray, died; Master Andrew of Moray succeeded him. ¶Dom Alexander, the
abbot of Deer, died on the journey to the general chapter, at the Valley of the blessed
Mary, on 6 September. ¶On his return from that same chapter,
Dom Geoffrey, the abbot of Dundrennan, also died, in the monastery at Auberive. ¶In the
same year, a father of blessed remembrance, also an excellent pastor, the lord Adam,
bishop of Caithness, a former abbot of Melrose and truly a monk of the Cistercian Order,
together with his fellow monk, a deacon of Newbattle named Serlo, through the triumph of
manifold suffering, was happily made worthy (as we believe) to attain the fellowship of
the citizens of heaven. For it does not make sense to think of him as one deprived of
the fellowship in heaven of those in whose martyrdom he was made worthy to participate
when his feet were on the earth; especially since it was for the rigour of justice that
he chose to die, namely, for the exaction of the tithes according to the custom of
ecclesiastical taxation; and in the manner of the best shepherd, to lay down his life
for his sheep rather than permit the flock entrusted to him to continue any longer in
its former deviant wandering. Since the reason that makes the martyr (being sufficiently
obvious and just) came first, rather than the suffering; and since the price of the
suffering was immense; anyone who is of the opinion that less honour or merit should be
attributed and shown to him than to any other of the holy martyrs, is proved to impose a
wrong upon the bishop, especially since he is acknowledged to have endured alone the
many torments of the holy martyrs. After the most savage threats and \repeated/mocking, after the weals
*For, indeed, the new bishop ordained in that very city had a revenue of 1000 talents;
and there were also 40 canons in that city, each of whom had 100 talents
¶a year.