[680]. Fordun, Chron. B. v. c. xxxiii.
[681]. Ailred, Eulogium Davidis, apud Pinkerton, p. 447.
[682]. According to Stubbs (Twysden, p. 713) he was consecrated by Archbishop Thomas, but Thomas died in 1114, which places the date too early. Olave’s letter is preserved in the ‘White Book’ at York. It is addressed to ‘T. eadem gratia Eborum archiepiscopo,’ and requests him to consecrate a bishop elected from the monks at Furness. By T. Thurstan is no doubt meant who was archbishop from 1114 to 1140. William of Newburgh seems to have known nothing certain about his earlier history. He says he was born ‘in obscurissimo Angliæ loco’ and acted as scribe to certain monks, without indicating localities. In his profession, quoted by Stubbs, he says, ‘Ego Wymundus sanctæ ecclesiæ de Schid,’ or Skye, which brings him from the Isles.
[683]. Will. Newb. Hist. B. i. c. xxiv. It is a pity William of Newburgh did not name the province he invaded. The scene of this battle is fixed by local tradition in Galloway, and a stream which flows into Wigton Bay called Bishop’s burn is said to have become crimson with blood.
[684]. 1134 Melcolmus capitur et in arcta ponitur in turre Rokesburch custodia.—Chron. Melrose. Tandem capitur et ab eodem rege David in turre castri de Marchemond arta custodia trucidatur.—Fordun, Annalia, i. Wymund’s clerical character probably saved his life and consigned him to perpetual imprisonment instead.
[685]. Mr. Robertson, in his Scotland under her Early Kings, propounds a strange theory with regard to Wymund. He considers that Orderic of Vital is mistaken in saying that Malcolm, who joined with Angus, earl of Moray, in 1130, was son of Alexander the First; that Fordun is mistaken in saying that Malcolm mac Heth was the same person as Wymund; that the two Malcolms were the same person; and that he was not the son but the brother of Angus, earl of Moray, their father Heth being a previous earl and the same person as the Beth Comes who witnesses charters of Alexander the First. But it is impossible to deal with authorities in this fashion, and Mr. Robertson’s usual sound judgment seems on this occasion to have deserted him.
[686]. Rex Scotorum innumerabilem coegit exercitum, non solum eos qui ejus subjacebant imperio, sed et de Insulanis et Orcadensibus non parvam multitudinem accersiens.
[687]. Ailred, de Bello apud Standardum. Fordun, vol. i. p. 444. See also Fordun, vol. ii. p. 425, note. Richard of Hexham, a contemporary writer, gives the following account of the army:—‘Coadunatus autem erat iste nefandus exercitus de Normannis, Germanis, Anglis, de Northymbranis, et Cumbris, ed Teswetadala, de Lodonea, de Pictis, qui vulgo Galleweienses dicuntur et Scottis.’—De Gest. Reg. Stephani.
[688]. See Fordun, Chron. vol. vi. p. 430, note.
[689]. John of Hexham, Chron., ad an. 1153.