lapsi turpiter
repatriauerunt, sed rex Scocie cuncta moderate &
cum consilio regis Anglie
honestissime faciens repatria
uit cum sua coniuge. Et hec causa accusationis.
Asserebat
rex Anglie sibi intimatum fuisse dominum Alanum hostiarium
Scocie
⁊ etiam tunc iusticiarium cum complicibus suis nuncios
cum muneribus ad dominum
papam direxisse quatinus filias suas quas
ex sorore regis genuerat taliter
legittimaret ut si quid si
nistrum regi Scotie eueniret ille tanquam heredes
legittime
ei in regno succederent, quod si impetrasset nulli dubium quin
proditor regis ⁊ regine fieret.
Anno Domini moccoliio Iohannes abbas de Sancto Edwardo suo
cessit officio ⁊ dompnus Adam portarius de Melros ei suc
cessit. Eodem anno ex hac
luce migrauerunt Gaufridus
abbas de Sancto Seruano ⁊ Robertus abbas de Dere ⁊
factus est ab
bas de Dere Henricus1prior de Kynlos ⁊ de Sancto Seruano Micael
eiusdem
domus portarius
Anno Domini moccoliiio Obiit
Willelmus filius comitis ⁊ Dauid
episcopus Sancti Andree ex hac luce transiuit,
post cuius transitum
facta est dissensio in electione, unde facta apellatione
prior
Sancti Andree ex una parte legatos cum suis canonicis ⁊ rex ex
altera
parte suos nuntios cum magistro Abel ad curiam Romanam
transmiserunt, sed magister
Abel ut fertur magis diligens suam
and ignominiously returned to their
country. But the king of Scotland, doing everything with restraint and with the advice
of the king of England, returned with much honour to his country with his wife. This,
then, was the cause of the accusation. The king of England was declaring that it had
been made known to him that the lord Alan, the Doorward of Scotland, and also justiciar
at that time, had together with his accomplices sent messengers with gifts to the lord
pope, so that his daughters, whom he had begotten with the king’s sister, might be made
legitimate, in such a way that, if any evil should befall the king of Scotland, they
might succeed him in the kingdom as his lawful heirs. If he had brought this about, he
would without any doubt whatever have been a traitor to the king and
queen.
In the 1252nd year of the
Lord, John, abbot of St Edward,1 resigned his office,
and Dom Adam, the porter of Melrose, succeeded him. In the same year, Geoffrey, abbot of
St Serf, and Robert, abbot of Deer, departed from this light; and Henry, prior of Kinloss, was made abbot of
Deer; and Michael, the porter of the same house, was made abbot of St
Serf
In the 1253rd year of the Lord, William the earl’s son, died; and David, bishop of St
Andrews, left this light. After his departure, a dispute came about during the election,
concerning which an appeal was made. The prior of St Andrews, on the one side, sent his
representatives, with his canons, to the Roman curia; and the king, on the other side,
sent his envoys, with Master Abel. But Master Abel, so it is said, esteeming his own