Anno Domini moccoxxoixo Facta est abbatia Sancti Edwardi de
Balmori
nac a Rege Alexandro ⁊ matre eius, ⁊ missus est illuc conuentus de Melros
cum
domino Alano abbate suo in die Sancte Lucie uirginis.
Anno Domini moccoxxxo
Dominus Symon de Rise electus est abbas
de
Ruþforde, in die Conuersionis Sancti Pauli, in capitulo de Melros.
Obiit Comes Malcomus de Fif, ⁊ sepultus
est in ecclesia Sancti Seruani de Kilenros quam
ipse fundauerat. Cui successit
Malcolmus nepos eius filius fratris eius qui postea
duxit uxorem filiam
Leulini.¶Hic primo ingrediuntur, Fratres Iacobini, ⁊
monachi de
Valle Olerum Scotiam.
Consecratus est magister Ricardus de Graunt in archiepiscopum
Cantuarie. Et magister Rogerus Niger
in episcopum
Lincolnie\Lundonie/. Et in episcopum
Elinensem Rogerus abbas de Sancto ▬
Edmundo.
Mandatum nouum do uobis […]2
In the 1229th year of the Lord,
the abbey of St Edward was made at Balmerino by King
Alexander and his mother, and the convent of Melrose was sent there with the lord Alan,
its abbot, on the day of St Lucy the virgin.
In the 1230th year of the Lord
on the day of the Conversion of St Paul, Dom Simon de Rise
was elected abbot of Rufford in the chapter of Melrose.
The Earl Máel Coluim of Fife died, and he was buried in the church of St Serf at Culross, which he had founded. Máel
Coluim, his nephew, his brother’s son, succeeded him, who afterwards married the
daughter of Llywelyn. ¶At this time the Jacobin friars and
the Vallescaulian monks first enter Scotland.
Master Richard Grant was consecrated as archbishop of
Canterbury, and Master Roger Niger as bishop of Lincoln \London/, and as bishop of Ely, Roger the abbot of St ▬ Edmund’s.
A new command I give you […]2