[744] Haddan and Stubbs, II, 216, 224-7, 235.—See also Cosmo Innes’ “Scotland in the Middle Ages,” pp. 107 sqq. We may assume that John of Crema or the pope must have conferred extraordinary powers on David before he could have the presumption to thus arbitrarily regulate and revolutionize the church. This, indeed, may readily be conceived as probable when we reflect how little authority Rome could have exercised over the Culdees, and how readily Scotland must have been subjected to the central power by placing her ecclesiastical establishment in the hands of the Sassenach monks.
Towards the end of the 12th century, Giraldus Cambrensis calls the Culdees of Bardsey in Wales, “Cœlibes vel Colidei” and characterizes them as “religiosissimi” (Itin. Cambr. II. 6—ap. Haddan and Stubbs, II. xxiii.).
[745] Gesta Henrici II. T. I. p. 282 (M. R. Series).
[746] Concil. Scotican. ann. 1225 c. 18, 62 (Wilkins, I. 610).
[747] Chron. Paslatens. ann. 1268 (Wilkins, II. 19).
[748] Hist. Compostellan. Lib. II. c. 1.
[749] Hist. Compostellan. Lib. I. c. 20.
[750] Didaci Decret. No. 15 (Hist. Compostellan. Lib. I. cap. 90).
[751] Synod. Helenens. ann. 1027 c. 3 (Aguirre, IV. 393).
[752] Hist, de España, Lib. IX. cap. xi.