Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . ll about 1-140. XXXV. Walter Teail. 1385 or 1386-1401. Walter Trail, son of the Laird of Blebo, in Fife, had been aCanon of St. Andrews, and having studied for a considerable space in Foreign Parts, commencedDoctor, both of Civil and Canon Law,and became Referendarius [Envoy]Papae dementis Septimi. [Fordiui.]This Antipope, he says, was lineallydescended from Mary, Countess ofBoulogne, daughter of our King Mal-colm Canmoir and S. Margaret hisQueen. Trail was with this AntipopeClement at the time the See of fell vacant, and wras by hisApost
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . ll about 1-140. XXXV. Walter Teail. 1385 or 1386-1401. Walter Trail, son of the Laird of Blebo, in Fife, had been aCanon of St. Andrews, and having studied for a considerable space in Foreign Parts, commencedDoctor, both of Civil and Canon Law,and became Referendarius [Envoy]Papae dementis Septimi. [Fordiui.]This Antipope, he says, was lineallydescended from Mary, Countess ofBoulogne, daughter of our King Mal-colm Canmoir and S. Margaret hisQueen. Trail was with this AntipopeClement at the time the See of fell vacant, and wras by hisApostolical authority, without Elec-tion, preferred to the same. For, sogreat an esteem had this Antipopefor him, that he said he was moreworthy to be Pope himself than aBishop only, and that Walter was anhonour to the Place, and not the Placeto him. And indeed he was a personof such excellent worth, that evenBuchanan speaks to his praise. Atthis time the grand Schism in thePapacy had begun, which continuedand sometimes three Popes—one at. S. WALTERI DEI GRAI EPI SCI AN- dree. Below S. Andrew (richlyadorned with Gothic work anddiapered background of roses, si-milar to the Seal of Bishop Frazer),in the centre, is a Bishop interced-ing. On the dexter side is theScotch Shield, with the Lion; onthe sinister are the Trail each Shield is a Lizard. about 36 years. Two 204 BISHOPS OF THE SEE OF ST. ANDREWS. Rome, and the others elsewhere—claimed each to be the lawfulSuccessor of S. Peter. In 1385, Urban VI. was the Pope atRome, while another Cardinal, under the title of Clement VII.,claimed the same dignity at Avignon. Like the other ScottishBishops, Trail acknowledged the Antipope; and, on this account,Pope Boniface IX. bestowed the See of St. Andrews on Fitz-Alan, Archbishop of Canterbury, during his exile from and Spain also joined Scotland. Italy, Germany, andEngland supported Urban. This Schism was at last quenchedin the Council of Constance, and Martin
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