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of Trondhjem, with the same kindness with which your grace has been 

 wont to receive us and ours." 24 



During the three years spent by Archbishop Eystein in England, 25 

 we can follow him only nine months, which he spent in the abbot's 

 house of Bury St. Edmunds/just before the election of Abbot Samson. 

 '• While the abbey was vacant," says Jocelin de Brakelond, " Augustine, 

 Archbishop of Norway, tarried with us, residing in the abbot's house, 

 and received by command of the king ten shillings each day from the 

 funds of the abbey." Jocelin is corroborated in the accounts rendered 

 by the wardens of the abbey to the king, who took over the abbot's 

 revenues during the vacancy. According to these, the corrodies allowed 



24 Epistolae Sancti Thomae, ed. J. A. Giles, Oxon., 1845, I, 301 ; Migne, 

 CXC, 612-614. 



20 The sources for the residence of Eystein in England are as follows: 

 (1) Roger of Hoveden (Rolls Series), II, 214-215 (for 1180 a. d.): "Et Augus- 

 tinus Nidrosiensis archiepiscopus, nolens aliquam facere subjectionem Swerre 

 presbytero, archiepiscopatum suum reliquit, et venit in Angliam, et excom- 

 municavit Swerre presbyterum. Est autem sciendum quod iste Magnus rex 

 primus fuit rex coronatus de regno Norweiae." (2) Benedict of Peterborough 

 (Rolls), I, 268-269 (for 1180 a. d.): "Eodem anno, scilicet M°C°LXXX , 

 Augustinus Nidrosiensis archiepiscopus, nolens aliquam subjectionem^ facere 

 Suero presbytero, sedem archiepiscopatus sui reliquit, et venit in Angliam, et 

 tulit sententiam excommunicationis in Suerum presbyterum." (3) William of 

 Newburgh (Rolls), I, 231-232: "Qui, sacro ordine abjurato, et accepta in con- 

 jugem filia regis Gotorum, ab archiepiscopo terrae illius sollemniter coronari 

 voluit. Verum ille cum esset vir magnus, et neque precibus neque minarum 

 terroribus flectcretur ut caput execrabile sacra unctione perf underet, ab eodem 

 patria pulsus est." (4) Jocelin of Brakelond, in Memorials of St. Edmund's 

 Abbey (Rolls), I, 222-223; same in Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda (Camden 

 Soc, London, 1840), p. 12: "Vacante abbatia perhendinavit Augustinus 

 archiepiscopus Norweie apud nos in domibus abbatis, habens per praeceptum 

 regis singulis diebus x. solidos de denariis abbatia? ; qui multum voluit nobis 

 ad habendam liberam electionem nostram, testimonium perliibens de bono, et 

 publico protestans coram regie quod viderat et audierat." (5) Pipe Roll, 

 27 Hen. II, Norfolk and Suffolk: "Abbatia de S' Aedmundo ... in corredio 

 Archiepiscopi Norwegiae xxxv. li., a vigilia S. Laurencii [August 9] usque ad 

 diem S. Luce Evangeliste [October 18], scilicet de lxx diebus per breve Regis." 

 Same, 28 Hen. II: "Et in liberatione Archiepiscopi de Norweia lix li. & x s. de 

 xvii., septimanis per breve Regis." (Printed in Chron. Jocelini, Camden Soc, 

 1840, pp. 109-110.) (6) Sverris Saga (Fornmanna Sogur, VIII, 193), chap. 78 

 (1183 a. d.): "Eysteinn erkibiskup haf&i pat sumar komit vestan af Englandi 

 snemma, ok hafcti verit III vetr a Englandi fra stoli sinum; ok da saettist 

 erkibiskup vid Sverri konung, ok for hann um sumarit nordr til stols sins." 

 (7) Skalholts-Annaler, in Isl. Annaler, ed. Storm, Christ., 1888, p. 180, in the 

 events for the year 1183 a. d. : "Eysteinn erkibyskup kom af Englandi." 

 Tlic other annals give 1182 as the date (Storm, pp. 118, 323). But Skalholt 

 is confirmed by the saga. Some MSS. insert "til Noregs" after "kom." 



