Note 227 — Chapter VII
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Sim. Dun. de Gestis 1122, 1123. Chron. Mel. 1123. On the 25th of April 1174, Pope Alexander III. declared Glasgow to be “Specialem filiam nostram nullo mediante.” Reg. Glasg., No. 32. Hence in after times “the two great grievances of the bishops were being forced to admit to benefices or pensions upon the dictation of the pope, and the liability to be summoned on church cases out of the kingdom.” Vide Preface to Reg. Glasg., p. 28.