orationes procurare dignemini, ut presentes angustias
cum futuris omnibus
incommodis in omni mansuetudine ⁊ pacientia tolleremus.
Speramus quidem
quod tota presens aduersitas nobis in prosperitatem commutabitur,
et quicquid pati
mur amaritudinis in dulcedinem conuertetur. Vos igitur quem
dominus de tanta procellarum uoragine sicut uidetur eripuit sollicitudi
nem geratis
⁊ diligenciam qualiter ordinis obseruetur integri
tas. Dompnus legatus Anglie ⁊
archiepiscopus Rothomagensis ⊗ qui primo re
manserunt aput Pisam
nunc de nouo ad alios prelatos sunt trans
lati de precepto imperatoris. Bisuntinus
archiepiscopus submersus est in mari.
Abbas Fiscanensis qui erat in galea cum
domino Bisuntino captus est uiuus.
Et omnes prelati Hispanie euaserunt. Ita quod
dominus imperator non habet in car
cere suo exceptis tribus legatis nisi tres
archiepiscopos ⁊ sex episcopos. De
abbatibus uero ⁊ procuratoribus ad presens non
loquimur. ¶Walenses qui ⁊ reli
quie Britonum qui a diebus Bruti qui primus eorum
princeps erat principem super se de gen
te sua habuerunt, sub quo ⁊ per quem suas
causas terminabant, modo coguntur
usque Londonias properare ibique ad arbitrium
Anglorum eas determinare. Vnde
constat quod secundum propheciam Merlini rubeus
draco id est Britones languet
in extremitate stagni scilicet insule oppressus ab
albo dracone per quem
Angli designantur. Obiit Cristiana Corbet uxor Guilelmi
filii comitis,
et in capitulo de Melros sepelitur. Obiit Gregorius papa xio kalendas Septembris
Cui successit Celestinus circa
festum Omnium Sanctorum qui sedit per quindecim dies, ⁊ sic diem
clausit extremum.
Post cuius obitum papalis sedes remansit uacua
pace ecclesia turbata.
Eodem anno natus est primogenitus domini Alexandri regis Sco
cie apud
Rokesburch in die1
translationis Sancti Cuthberti pridie2
nonas
Septembris feria iiiia Dictusque est Alexander. Natus est autem anno etatis
patris sui
xliiiio incipiente, ⁊ regni sui xxviio pene finito. Iohannes
de Macheswel apud Melros
sepelitur. Episcopus Willelmus Ergadiensis in mare sub
mergitur.
Anno domini moccoxliio Obiit magister Petrus de Alinton’ archidiaconus
de
Teuidal, ⁊ magister Reginaldus de Irewin ei successit. Obiit magister
Rogerus
cognomento Niger episcopus Londonie. Obiit dompnus Hugo
prayers made for us,
so that we might bear our present anguishes, as well as all future troubles, in all
meekness and patience. We indeed hope that all our present adversity will be changed for
us into good-fortune, and that whatever bitterness we may suffer will be turned into
sweetness. You therefore, whom the Lord has snatched from so great an abyss of storms
(as it seems), should be careful and diligent how the integrity of the order should be
observed. My lord the legate of England and the archbishop of Rouen ⊗
who at first were left at Pisa have recently been transferred, at the emperor’s
instruction, to be with the other prelates. The archbishop of Besançon was drowned in
the sea. The abbot of Fécamp, who was in a galley with my lord of Besançon, was captured
alive. All the prelates of Spain escaped. So that the lord emperor does not hold
[anyone] in his prison, except the three legates, and only the archbishops and six
bishops. Of abbots and provosts, at present we do not speak. ¶The Welsh, who are also
the remnant of the Britons, who have had a prince of their own race set over them since
the days of Brutus (who was their first prince), under whom and by whom they would
decide their own causes, are now constrained to make haste to London and there determine
those causes at the judgement of the English. For this reason it is certain that
according to the prophecy of Merlin, ‘the Red Dragon’ (that is, the Britons),
‘languishes at the end of the pool’ (that is, of the island), ‘suffering oppression by
the White Dragon’ (by which the English are indicated). Christiana Corbet, the wife of
William fitz Count, died, and is buried in the chapter-house at Melrose. Pope Gregory
died on 22 August. Celestine succeeded him around the feast of All Saints. He sat for 15
days, and so ended his last day. After his death, the peace of the Church being
disturbed, the pope’s seat remained empty.
In the same year, the first-born
son of the lord Alexander, king of Scotland, was born at Roxburgh, on the day of the Translation of St Cuthbert,
on 4 September, being a Wednesday. And he was called Alexander. And he was born at the
beginning of the 44th year of his father’s age, and nearly
the end of the 27th of his reign. John of Maxwell is buried
at Melrose. Bishop William of Argyll is drowned in the sea.
In the 1242nd year of the Lord, Master Peter of Alington, the archdeacon
of Tweeddale, died; and Master Reginald of Irvine succeeded him. Master Roger, surnamed
Niger, the bishop of London, died. Dom Hugh