[163]. Ibid.
[164]. Comp. Camerar. Scot. i. 25-26.
[165]. See a paper by Joseph Robertson, Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. vol. ii. p. 31, note.
[166]. Theiner, Vet. Monum., p. 276.
[167]. Ibid.
[168]. Ibid. p. 277.
[169]. Origines Parochiales, ii. 485.
[170]. Regist. Morav. p. 368.
[171]. There is a writ of Pope Innocent VI., dated in May 1360, preferring Thomas to be bishop of the “Ecclesia Cathayensis,” and ordering him to repair to his diocese on being consecrated by the Bishop of Preneste. It appears from subsequent documents, however, that he was obstructed and interfered with by the bishops of Limerick, Ardfert, and Clonmacnoise, who laid many charges of criminal and illegal proceedings against him, asserting that the “Ecclesia Cathayensis” was a parochial and not a cathedral church, and the Pope appointed George, Archbishop of Cashel, to report on the matter. Owing to the death of the archbishop the report was not made, and the remit was renewed by the successor of Pope Innocent VI. to the Bishop of Lismore. It is not clear whether this was a preferment to the see of Caithness following on the death of Thomas de Fingask, or a series of mistakes. See Theiner’s Vetera Monumenta, pp. 316, 318, 324.
[172]. Theiner, Vetera Monumenta, p. 333.