ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



tion of Canterbury. The last question was settled by the papal legate in 

 favour of York.''^ In 1 176, at Northampton, Roger argued with William the 

 Lion and the Scottish bishops, in opposition to the plea of independence urged 

 by the Bishop of Glasgow.** Richard of Canterbury put forward his own 

 claim to Scottish obedience at the same council, but without success." 

 During the legatine synod at Westminster in the same year a struggle between 

 Roger and the attendants of Richard took place. The king intervened and 

 arranged a truce between the archbishops.''* At the Lateran council of 1 179 

 a decree on the profession of obedience was issued in favour of Roger.'" 



Roger aided Geoffrey Plantagenet (i 174) in taking the castle of Malzeard 

 from the Mowbrays.'" At the end of the rebellion he made a treaty with 

 Hugh Pudsey by which the subordination of Hexham to the church of 

 Durham was limited, and the payment of synodals by the churches of 

 St. Cuthbert in Yorkshire was excused.'^ In 1 177 an agreement on the 

 claims of York over Lindsey was arranged with Geoffrey Plantagenet.'" 

 Roger rebuilt the quire of York Minster '' and the church of Ripon.** He 

 also built the palace at York," and founded the chapel of St. Mary and the 

 Holy Angels on the north side of the cathedral. The canons objected to its 

 neighbourhood, and Roger made arrangements by which its warden was to 

 contribute towards their ceremonies on Holy Thursday." Alexander III 

 wrote to the archbishop on the shortcomings of the canons, who drew their 

 prebendal stipends while neglecting their churches, and were in some cases 

 guilty of worse sin." In another letter the pope commented on the admission 

 of mere priests, not canons of York, to celebrate mass at the high altar of the 

 minster.'* 



Roger died in November 1 1 8 1 , and was buried at York." His treasure 



" Hoveden, Chron. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 77. The question of cross-bearing was left undecided : a truce of 

 five years was arranged between the archbishops. Two letters from Alexander III to Roger — (l) 28 Jan. 

 (11 60-1) ; free licence to carry cross erect : (2) n.d. Reversal of a decision against Roger in an appeal by 

 Archbishop Becket — are printed in Hist. Ch. Tork (Rolls Ser.), iii, 69, 70, 73, 74. 



" Hoveden, Chron. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 91, 92, seq. 



" Ibid. The arguments for the supremacy of Canterbury over Scotland had been pleaded by Archbishop 

 Ralph in his letter to Calixtus II in 1 1 19 (in Hist. Ch. Tork [Rolls Ser.] ii, 228 seq.). 



" Hoveden, Chron. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 92, 93. 



" Dixon and Raine, op. cit. 244. '° Hoveden, Chron. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 58. 



" Text in Hoveden, Chron. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 70, 71, and Hist. Ch. Tork (Rolls Ser.), iii, 79 seq. The 

 churches of St. Cuthbert are enumerated as follows : — In the archdeaconry of John, son of Letold (Cleveland) : 

 Hemlngbrough, Skipwith, Northallerton, Birkby, Osmotherley, Sigston, Leake, North Otterington, Crayke, 

 Holtby ; in the archdeaconry of Geoffrey (York) : All Saints, Pavement, St. Peter the Little (now demolished), 

 and a mediety of Holy Trinity, all in York ; in the archdeaconry of the treasurer (East Riding) : Howden, 

 Welton, Brantingham, Walkington. Hoveden's text differs somewhat in detail from that in the Reg. Mag. 

 Album of the chapter, from which that in Hist. Ch. Tork (Rolls Ser.) is printed. 



'' Bull of Alexander III, 16 July 1 177, printed in Hist. Ch. Tork (Rolls Ser.), iii, 85. 



" Stubbs,Hw/. C^. J^ofiJ (Rolls Ser.), ii, 398 : 'chorum . . . cum cryptis ejusdem . . . de novo construxit.' 



" See letter in Walbran, Mem. ofRipon (Surt. Soc), i, 97, and Hist. Ch. Tork (Rolls Ser.), iii, 82, in which 

 Roger grants * operi Beati Wilfridi de Ripon, ad aedificandam basilicam ipsius, quam de novo inchoavimus, 

 mille libras veteris monetae.' 



" Stubbs, Hist. Ch. Tork (Rolls Ser.), ii, 398, 



'* Ibid. 398, 399. Roger's ordination of this chapel (often called St. Sepulchre's) is printed in Hist. 

 Ch. Tork (Rolls Ser.), iii, 75 seq. 



" Ibid. 78, 79. " Ibid. 82, 83. 



" Stubbs, Hist. Ch. Tork (Rolls Ser.), ii, 400, says that he died on 26 Nov. at Sherburn. But Hoveden, 

 op. cit. ii, 264, gives the date of his death as 22 Nov. at York, and says that he had gone there from ' Cawda,' 

 where he was taken ill. Hoveden's account is too circumstantial to be received with doubt : ' Cawda ' is 

 almost certainly an error for ' Cawod.' Cawood was part of the barony of Sherburn, and thus Stubbs's state- 

 ment may be partially reconciled with Hoveden's. On the probable site of Roger's tomb see Dixon and 

 Raine, op. cit. 250. 



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