[133]. Keyser, Den Norske Kirkes Historie, ii. 216.
[134]. Diplom. Norvegicum, vii. p. 134.
[135]. Ibid. p. 134.
[136]. Printed from the Panmure transcript in the Miscellany of the Spalding Club, vol. v. p. 257.
[137]. Theiner, Vetera Monumenta, p. 376.
[138]. Among the persons mentioned in this record are Sir Richard of Rollisey (Rousay), Sir Christen of Sanday, John of Orkney, Sigurd of Pappley, John of Dunray (Downreay in Caithness). The title “sir” is equivalent to our “reverend.” (Diplom. Norvegicum, i. 308.)
[139]. See p. [lxix]. Both these documents are printed at length in the second volume of the Diplomatarium Norvegicum, and are exceedingly curious specimens of the language of the time.
[140]. Diplom. Norveg. v. 605.
[141]. There was a monastery at Dornoch before the death of Earl Rögnvald in 1158. King David of Scotland addressed a missive to Rögnvald, Earl of Orkney, and to the Earl of Caithness (Harald Maddadson), and to all good men in Caithness and Orkney, requesting them to protect the monks living at Durnach in Caithness, their servants and their effects, and to see that they sustained no loss or injury. (Regist. de Dunfermelyn, p. 14.)
[142]. Regist. de Dunfermelyn, p. 14.