convenientes in unum vota sua in dictum Priorem et quatuor alios ex eisdem Canonicis contulerunt, qui pari voto et unanimi voluntate dilectum filium Magistrum David de Bernham subdiaconum, Camerarium Regis eiusdem, virum utique genere nobilem, ornatum moribus et scientia, ac in spiritualibus et temporalibus circumspectum, in suum Episcopum elegerunt. Nos quidem electionem ipsam, cui dictus Rex assensum suum prebuisse dicitur, examinari sicut convenit facientes, quia per Magistrum Riccardum Vairement canonicum secularem et procuratorem eiusdem ecclesie, uno canonicorum sublato de medio, et altero gravi infirmitate detento, qui propter hoc cum ipso Ric. ad presentiam nostram destinati fuerant, de premissis fieri non potuit plena fides, fraternitati vestre per apostolica scripta mandamus, quatenus inquisita de modo electionis, studiis[que] eligentium, et electi meritis diligentius veritate, si electionem ipsam inveneritis de persona idonea canonice celebratam, ipsam auctoritate apostolica confirmantes, faciatis eidem electo obedientiam et reverentiam debitam exhiberi, ac munus consecrationis impendi, recepturi ab eo prius pro nobis et ecclesia Romana fidelitatis solite iuramentum iuxta formam, quam vobis sub bulla nostra mittimus interclusam. Forma autem iuramenti, quod ipse prestabit, de verbo ad verbum nobis per eiusdem patentes litteras suo sigillo signatas per proprium nuncium quantocius destinetis. Alioquin eadem electione rite cassata, faciatis ipsi ecclesie de persona idonea per electionem canonicam provideri. Contradictores etc. Quod si non omnes etc. Datum Anagnie Kalendis Octobris, Pontificatus nostri anno tertiodecimo."-Theiner, Vetera Mon., Hib. et Scot., p. 39. Tanner gives the following memorandum : "David, Episcopus S. Andreæ, interfuit concilio Lugdunensi sub Innocentio IV. celebrato.* Scripsit De concilii Lugdunensi autoritate librum unicum." * The Chronica de Mairos tells us that the Bishops of S. Andrews and Glasgow were intercepted by the Emperor of Germany, in 1245, and liberated only on condition of their returning home. This, however, did not prevent the Emperor's deposition by the Council. He performed the ceremony of anointing Alexander III., at his Coronation, July 13th (not '3rd,' as Lyon), 1249. However, the date which Tanner copied from Dempster (IV. 412) "claruit anno MCCLXXXI.," is an incorrect one, arising apparently from the likeness between an Arabic 5 and 8. It appears that David de Bernham "past aff this warld til his lang hame" in the year 1253. He died April 26th, and was buried at Kelso. † Mr Lyon, in his History of S. Andrews (1843), chap. VI., gives 1238 as the date of David's Accession; but Dr. Grub (Hist. Scot., I., p. 316) with greater accuracy accepts the date of his Consecration as on Jan. 22nd, 1239-40; while Wyntown thus describes his Election, which took place in the preceding June :— "And efftyre that this Willame‡ wes dede Thare postulyd was intil his sted Off Dunkeldyn the Byschape Joffray. Bot till hym the Pape Be na way grawnt wald hys gud will; Bot leve the chanownys he gave till Agayne to mak electyown, And for to ches a gud persown. This Dawy by theme mad byschape wes." ? * Fordun, Scotichron. I. p. 293, II. p. 437, ed. 1872. Mr. Lyon says incorrectly (as it seems) that he died in England. The marriage of Alexander III. with Margaret, daughter of our Henry III., at which solemnity David de Bernham is said to have taken part, took place at York in 1251, a year or two before the Bishop's death. Bishop Keith says that De Bernham "died Kal. 6to Maii, not at Northampton, but at Narthanshire or Narthashire, now Newthorn," [rather Nenthorn, four miles from Kelso,] "in vic. de Berwick, and was buried in Kelso."-Keith, Cat. Scott. Bishops, ed. Russell, 1824, p. 17 n. W. Malvoisine. & Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, by Androw de Wyntoun, Augustinian Canon of S. Andrew A.D. 1390-1410, II., p. 244, ed. Skene, 1872. The MS. contains no register of Consecration for the Episcopate of Abel and Gameline. The former was only ten months and two days occupant of the See "that he purchased of the Pope," à propos whereof Wyntown wrote: "That wes to lang, as he hym bare Bishop Gameline (A.D. 1255-1271) and his See were subject to persecution and plunder on the part of the State. King Henry III. took part with his son-in-law the King of Scotland, though he had a special injunction from the Pope to restrain him from his sacrilegious acts. It appears that Bishop Gameline did not neglect Consecrating Churches. At least, his death occurred (at Inchmurtach) from paralysis immediately after his return from the Dedication of a Church at Peebles. William Wishart (to whose Episcopate belong the two entries on p. xix., bearing date the year 1276) had been Archdeacon of S. Andrews, Bishop-elect of Glasgow, and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Scotland. He owed his Confirmation as Bishop of S. Andrews to the favour of Edward I. and his interest with Pope Gregory X., who was at first displeased with Wishart, because he had not come to sue at Rome in person. He held the bishopric in the years 1271-1279, but he could not secure his Consecration until nearly two years after his election. In 1274 he attended the Council of Lyons. He built a great part of his Cathedral, constructing the nave at his own expense. He died at Marbottle, in Teviotdale, and was buried near the High Altar in his Cathedral. His last public act was to sit at Berwick, in 1278, on a Commission which met (unsuccessfully) with a view to settling the Marches between England and Scotland. It will be remembered that we have an instance of bloodshed there in De Bernham's register. * Ib. II., p 255. C LIST OF CHURCHES. With Mr. Gammack's help we have been able to trace the titles or Dedications of seventy Churches, or exactly half the entire number on De Bernham's list, and also the two in the Wishart memoranda. It is remarkable that not even one of those which have been identified was dedicated on the festival of the Saint whose name is commemorated in its title. The most that we can say is that, in three or four instances, the Dedication was performed on a day which occurred very shortly before the Feast of the Title. That the two coincided in no one of the instances before us is the more remarkable, when we observe that, in some of the entries marked with an asterisk, as attested by the Regist. Prior. S. Andreae (p. 348), a Western Dedication is coupled with what we may suppose to have been the old Keltic traditional name of the Church. It seems not unreasonable to suppose that, in such a case as that of S. Laurence and S. Coman, Rossieclerach, the former title, that of the Saint of Catholic fame, was given for the first time on the occasion of the Dedication by Bishop de Bernham, and that the name of the local Saint was retained out of respect to the conservative feeling of the place. Some instances of similar combinations, in the case of Cornish Churches, are given by Mr. W. C. Borlase in his Age of the Saints (1878) pp. 68, 84. с < S. Nicholas, Berwick. S. Nicholas, Eccl. sci. Nicholai de Berewycli, eodem Bp. anno, viij. id. Julij. |