[650]. Chart. Scone, p. 3.
[651]. A.D. 1093 Fothudh ardepscop. Albain in Christo quievit.—An. Ult. Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 370.
[652]. Modach filius Malmykel vir piissime recordacionis episcopus Sancte Andree cujus vita et doctrina tota regio Scotam feliciter est illustrata.—Chart. St. And. p. 117.
[653]. See Haddan and Stubbs’ Councils, vol. ii. part i. p. 170, for this date. Eadgar died on 13th January 1107.
[654]. Sim. Dun. Hist. Reg. Angliæ, ed. Surtees, i. 96.
[655]. See Haddan and Stubbs’ Councils, vol. ii. part i. pp. 189-214, for the documents connected with this controversy. The principal authority is Eadmer’s own account coupled with that of Simeon of Durham.
[656]. Chron. Picts and Scots, p. 190.
[657]. Fordun, Chron. B. v. c. xxviii. Bower, who was himself abbot of this monastery, places its foundation in the year 1123, and adds to Fordun’s account the words ‘non minus mirifice quam miraculose.’ He explains this expression by telling us that Alexander, crossing the Queensferry on affairs of state, encountered a great storm, and was driven by a south-westerly gale upon the island of Emonia, where he was received by a hermit who served Saint Columba in a small chapel, and lived upon shellfish and the milk of one cow. Here the king was obliged by the gale to remain three days, and, in fulfilment of a vow which he had made in the extremity of his peril, founded the monastery in honour of Saint Columba.—Scotichron. B. v. c. xxxvii. The same legend was told to the author in the island of Iona, as having happened there, and the hermit’s cave where Alexander was said to have been received was pointed out to him on the west side of the island.
[658]. This gift must have been made during the life of Malcolm Ceannmor, and the donor been either Donald Ban or Melmare, very probably the former.
[659]. Per latrinam.