Anno Domini moccoxlovi Dompnus
Matheus cellerarius de Mel
ros in abbatem eligitur in crastino Sanctorum Tiburcii ⁊
Valeriani,
⁊ in die Ascensionis a domino, Willelmo episcopo Glasguensi
sollempniter
in ecclesia de Melros benedicitur. Corpus domini Henrici de Balolf
a Sancto Iacobo deportatur, ⁊ in capitulo de Melros honorifice
tumulatur.
Item1 abbas Matheus de2 Sancto Seruano deponitur, ⁊
Gaufridus prior de Neubotil ei
subrogatur. Item canonizatio Sancti
Edmundi archiepiscopi.
Anno Domini moccoxloviio
dominus3 Thomas de Cantia in
domo de
Melros moritur ⁊ sepelitur. Item Philippus de Peccokes ⁊ Robertus
de
Curri, ⁊ Adam de Lemokestun ibidem deportantur ⁊ sepeliuntur
cum Ada de
Baylolf4 que iuxta patrem suum tumulatur ⁊ magister Willelmus de
Grenlauue in capitulo tumulatur. Item obiit dominus Radulfus episcopus de Abir
dene.
Cui successit magister Petrus de Rameseya. Mutatio monete.
Anno Domini moccoxloviiio Nobilissimus
rex Francorum Lodowicus
⁊ multi alii tam nobiles quam ignobiles natale solum pro
Christo re
linquentes Ierosolimam profecti sunt qui ad insulam Cypri uenientes
ibidem
yemauerunt. In eodem itinere dominus Patricius comes de Dunbar migrauit
de hac luce. Cui successit dominus Patricius filius eius. Dominus5 Iohannes de Crau
forde apud Melros sepelitur. Obiit dompnus
Hugo abbas de Kelcou.
Cui successit Robertus de Smalhame eiusdem domus monachus.
Dominus Nicholaus episcopus Dunelmensis pastoralem curam reliquit. Cui
success
In the 1246th year of the Lord,
the lord Matthew, the cellarer of Melrose, was elected as abbot on the day after Saints
Tiburtius and Valerian,1 and was solemnly
blessed by the lord William, bishop of Glasgow, on Ascension Day2 in the church of Melrose. The body of the lord Henry de
Balliol was carried from St James’s3 and
buried with honour in the chapter-house of Melrose. Also, Abbot Matthew of St
Serf’s4 was deposed, and Geoffrey the prior of
Newbattle was chosen in his place. Also, the canonization of St Edmund the
archbishop.
In the 1247th year of
the Lord, the lord Thomas of Kent died and was buried in the House of Melrose. Also,
Philip of Pitcox and Robert of Currie, and Adam of Lomokestun5 were brought and buried; along with Ada de Balliol, who was buried
next to her father; and Master William of Greenlaw was buried in the chapter-house.
Also, the lord Ralph, the bishop of Aberdeen, died; Master Peter of Ramsay succeeded
him. The change of the money.
In the 1248th year of the Lord, Louis, the most noble king of the French, and many others,
noble as well as those of low birth, forsaking their native soil for the sake of Christ,
set out for Jerusalem. And when they arrived at the island of Cyprus, they spent the
winter there. On the same expedition, the lord Patrick, earl of Dunbar, departed from
this light; the lord Patrick, his son, succeeded him. The lord John of Crawford was
buried at Melrose. Dom Hugh, the abbot of Kelso, died; Robert of Smailholm, a monk of
the same house, succeeded him. The lord Nicholas, bishop of Durham, gave up his pastoral
charge;