decem et novem annis in sui cordis obstinatione permansit. Quo tanti temporis intervallo, præfatæ Romanæ ecclesiæ pontifices, Leo, Victor, Stephanus, Nicolaus, Alexander, legatos suos suis quisque temporibus in Anglicam terram transmiserunt; et ne aliquis ad eum ordinandus accederet, apostolica authoritate prohibuerunt. Ego vero hujus negotii nec ex toto ignarus, nec usquequaque gnarus, ordinandus ad eum veni, professionem sibi suisque successoribus feci, curamque episcopalem de manu ipsius me consecrantis accepi. Post paucos dies præfatus dominus Alexander papa legatos suos in terram Anglorum transmisit, eumque deponi,1 omnesque qui ab eo ordinati sunt aut abjici aut ab officiis suspendi præcepit. Verum te, ejusdem sanctæ metropolitanæ sedis antistes Lanfrance, Romam petente, præfatum papam adii, teque mediante indulgentiam petii et impetravi. Cognoscens igitur, ex auctoritate præfati papæ, nec eum antecessorem tuum fuisse, nec te successorem ipsius existere, tibi quidem de obedientia mea scriptam professionem porrigo; meque tuis, omniumque qui tibi successuri sunt, jussionibus obtemperaturum esse promitto. 1 The deposition of Stigand was at the council of Winchester in April 1070 (Flor. Worc. ii. 5). Lanfranc was consecrated to Canterbury August 29 of the same year (Ibid. p. 7). 2 This was in 1071. Compare Eadmer's Hist. Nov. (Selden, p. 7), who is closely followed by Malmsbury in De Gest. Pont. (Savile, 165 b), and Diceto (Twysden, 484). These writers have no mention of Remigius's consecration by Stigand, and therefore impending suspension; but they give a worse objec tion, made before the pope, to Remigius's promotion to Lincoln, viz., that he had by actual previous bargain procured a bishoprick from William, in return for the aid he was bringing to the conquest of England. Eadmer not unnaturally gives this, the great objection, without mentioning minor ones: this profession naturally gives only what concerned Lanfranc as primate. They agree about Lanfranc's mediation, and the pope's consequent indulgence to Remigius. 1 Of course, in the original, the calendar of days is complete throughout the year,-"Kal. Januarii,” “iiii. "Non.," "iii. Non.," &c. I omit the days to which no entry is attached, excepting the first day of each month. 2 Colsuen occurs in Domesday as an owner of property in Lincoln, &c. Picot, his son, must have held some high office at Lincoln temp. Henry I. In Dugdale are four charters of this king (Nos. 8, 18, 26, and 28, under Lincoln cathedral), touching grants in Lincoln or Lincolnshire, which are addressed, "Osberto vicecomiti Lincoliæ, et "Picoto filio Colsueni, et omnibus "baronibus suis et fidelibus," &c., or "Ranulpho Meschino, Osberto "vicecomiti, et Picoto filio Col"sueni," &c. In a Peterborough Register, in a document of 1127 or very nearly, he is said to hold half a carucate of land at Riseholm, which had been given to his father by the abbot, "tali servicio, quod "esset ad placita abbatis, et manu"teneret res suas et homines suos "in scira et in aliis locis " (Chron. Petroburg. of Camden Society, 175, 1. 4). The death of Beatrix, wife of Picot, occurs infra, March 7. 3 Robert Bloet. See supra, 33, n. 4. • Robert de Chesney, 4th bishop, I suppose. 1 This entry is in a different ink; and the latter part of it, "quoddam "... Mariæ," for want of room, is continued in the margin. It appears, however, to be by the same original hand. Robert, called by Henry Hunt. "Robertus junior," was the fourth archdeacon of Lincoln (Anglia Sacra, ii. 695, last line but one). He was archdeacon in 1147, when Henry Hunt. wrote his epistle to Walter, De Mundi contemptu (Ibid. 694, &c.). 2 Ipso, &c.] This entry is in the margin, and in different ink, but apparently by same hand. David, brother of bishop Alexander, was the fifth archdeacon of Buckingham in 1147 (Hen. Hunt., Ibid. 696, 1. 13). He occurs in 1145, and as late as 1171 (Hardy's Le Neve). In the Catalogue of Books (infra, 170, 1. 25), he is mentioned as the donor of a Psalter. 3 This entry is in the different ink. 4 William, nephew of bishop Alexander, was the third archdeacon of Northampton in 1147 (Hen. Hunt., Ibid. 696, 1. 6). According to the Spalding Chronicle (Chron. Angl. Petriburg. of Sparke and Giles), he died in 1168. He is mentioned in the Catalogue of Books (infra, 168, 1. 19), as nephew of bishop Alexander. 5 Et Gilbertus] This is in the different ink. 1 See supra, 34, n. 2. 2 In March 1162, Walter de Amundeville, "dapifer" of the bishop, gives to the commons of the canons of Lincoln 48. annual rent out of his mill of Kirchebeia (Kirkby, near Market Rasen), to be paid on the anniversary of the obit of his wife Hawisia: Reg. Antiquiss., f. 56. The death of Walter is recorded infra, December 20. For other members of the family, see April 5, July 22, November 11. 3 Adelelm occurs as dean in a deed dated 1163, in the Reg. Antiquiss., f. 174. 4 These entries are in the different ink. 5 Brand the priest gave the church of Corringham, and two and a half carucates of land, to form a prebend in the church of Lincoln, which gift confirmed by Henry I., Dugdale, No. 32. 6 See supra, 153, n. 2. |