Note 682 — Chapter IX · THE KINGDOM OF SCOTIA PASSES INTO FEUDAL SCOTLAND.

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.