Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . ° x referred by the Laws of the Marches. A fewyears afterwards, the Church of Glasgow, probably through theintercession of Malvoisine, who was then at Rome, obtaineda Bull from Pope Innocent III., forbidding the practice, underpain of Excommunication. The Popes prohibition was in 1216 ;yet, 30 years afterwards, the Laws of the Marches declare that,except the King of England, the King of Scotland, the Bishop ofSt. Andrews, and the Bishop of Durham, every man in England,. The CotuiterliSeal 152 BISHOPS OF THE SEE OF ST. ANDREWS. from Totness northward, eve
Ecclesiastical chronicle for Scotland . ° x referred by the Laws of the Marches. A fewyears afterwards, the Church of Glasgow, probably through theintercession of Malvoisine, who was then at Rome, obtaineda Bull from Pope Innocent III., forbidding the practice, underpain of Excommunication. The Popes prohibition was in 1216 ;yet, 30 years afterwards, the Laws of the Marches declare that,except the King of England, the King of Scotland, the Bishop ofSt. Andrews, and the Bishop of Durham, every man in England,. The CotuiterliSeal 152 BISHOPS OF THE SEE OF ST. ANDREWS. from Totness northward, every man in Scotland, from Caithnesssouthward, must undergo wager of battle upon the Borderwhen called upon. [Act. Pari. Scot., vol. i., p. 84.*] However,this unseemly usage was too inveterate to be readily abandoned,and at the end of 20 years we find, in 1237, a Petition from theBishops and Clergy of England to the Cardinal Legate Otho,praying that he would move the Kings of England and of Scot-land to free them from wager of battle upon the Burgesses of Inverness and of Murray were relieved fromwager of battle by King William the Lion, 1189-99.[Act. Pari. Scot., vol. i., Preface, p. 79; Stat. Ecc. Scot., cciii.]Matthew Paris, the English Chronicler, says that the CardinalLegate Otho, when he was sent from Rome to restore peacebetween Scotland and England, 7th May, 1237, was withstoodby King Alexander II., affirming that no Legate had ever yetset foot on Scottish ground. Paris says so a
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