domus monacus ei subrogatur. Sed ⁊ Scoti ⁊ Galwithienses fere
totam patriam illam
depopulati sunt. Post uero explecionem
trium ebdomadarum cernentes predicti nuntii
exercitum Scocie
iam adunatum ⁊ super se irruere si moram facerent preparatum
se etiam nec uires ad resistendum habere pacem inter predictos prodi
tores ⁊
eorum aduersarios pepigerunt, ⁊ sic pace reformata
unusquisque reuersus est ad
propria. In die autem Sancti Michaelis domp
nus Willelmus abbas de Cupro humili
deuotione curam regiminis
in capitulo de Melros deposuit. Ad quam Willelmus eius
celerarius re
gendam accessit. Obiit dominus Walterus Cumin comes de Ma
neteth.
Item uenerabilis pater noster Willelmus episcopus Glasguensis mi
grauit ex hoc
seculo in uigilia Sancti Martini ⁊ in die Sancti Bricii
apud Melros iuxta magnum
altare ⊗ sepe
litur. Post quem electus est magister Nicholaus
⊗ archi
diaconus de Teuidale ⁊ a rege confirmatus, qui post
Purificationem
curiam Romanam adiit ut a summo pontifice munus consecrati
onis
posset percipere.
[A]nno domini moccolixo magister Nicholaus Glasguensis electus a
curia Romana sine munere consecrationis repatriauit, tum quia
quandam summam
pecunie quam postulabant papa ⁊ cardinales no
luit porrigere ne in ouile ouium
uideretur non introisse per ostium, tum
quia hii cum eo quasi ad auxilium
uenerant, uersa uice contra eum totis ui
ribus stabant, quorum caput extitit R’
electus Dunblaynensis, qui cecatus
elatione estimabat illo quassato facile se ad
episcopatum Glasguensem
a monk of the same house, replaced him. The Scots, however,
and the men of Galloway, had very nearly laid waste to the whole of that land. After the
completion of three weeks, the aforesaid envoys—realising that the army of Scotland was
already assembled and ready to fall on them if they should cause delay, and also
realising that they did not have the strength to resist—concluded a peace between the
aforesaid traitors and their adversaries, and with peace thus restored, everyone
returned home. On Michaelmas Day, Dom William, abbot of Cupar, laid down in humble
devotion the care of office in the chapter-house of Melrose. William, his cellarer,
fulfilled the rule. The lord Walter Comyn, earl of Menteith, died. Our venerable father,
William, bishop of Glasgow, departed from this world on Martinmas Eve,1 and he was buried at Melrose on St Brice’s Day2 next to ⊗the high altar. After him, Master Nicholas, ⊗archdeacon of
Teviotdale, was elected, and confirmed by the king. After the Purification3 he went to the Roman curia to receive the gift of
consecration from the supreme pontiff.
In the 1259th year of the Lord, Master Nicholas, elect of Glasgow,
returned to his own country from the Roman curia without consecration, because he was
not willing to offer a certain sum of money which the pope and the cardinals were asking
for, lest he should be perceived not to have entered the sheepfold by the gate, and also
because those who had come with him supposedly to help him, on the contrary opposed him
with all their might, the chief among them being R[obert], elect of Dunblane, who being
blinded by pride, calculated that having easily quashed him, it was possible to move up
himself to the bishopric of Glasgow.