On the 2d April 1320 Bishop Audfinn writes to the Archbishop that on
the 1st February he had issued a prohibition against the bad custom of
making pilgrimages to Nordness, and offering invocations to the woman
who had been burnt many years ago for giving herself out as King
Eirik’s daughter. He also complains to the archbishop that opposition
had been offered to the reading out of the prohibition in the Church
of the Apostles of Bergen. (Munch, Det Norske Folks Historie, iv. part
2, p. 348.)
Footnote 62:
This noble document was signed by eight earls and thirty-one barons of
Scotland, at the abbey of Aberbrothock on the 6th April 1320. After
asserting the legitimate claims of King Robert the Bruce, and
narrating his struggles in the cause of Scottish independence, it goes
on to say that “If he were to desist from what he has begun, wishing
to subject us or our kingdom to the King of England or the English, we
would immediately endeavour to expel him as our enemy, and the
subverter of his own rights and ours, and make another king who should
be able to defend us. For so long as a hundred remain alive, we never
will in any degree be subject to the dominion of the English. Since
not for glory, riches, nor honour, we fight, but for liberty alone,
which no good man loses but with his life.” The duplicate, preserved
in the General Register House, is printed in facsimile in the National
Manuscripts of Scotland, published under the superintendence of the
Lord Clerk Register.
Footnote 63:
The lands are those of Stufum, Kuikobba, Klaet, Thordar, Borgh, Leika,
Lidh, Haughs-æth and Petland-Sker. (Diplom. Norvegicum, ii. 146.)
Footnote 64:
Munch, in his Genealogical Table of the Earls of Orkney, makes
Katharina to be the daughter of Earl John (following Douglas’ Peerage
of Scotland), and Magnus to be a son of Malcolm of Caithness, whom he
conjectures to have been a son of the first Magnus. But in a note on
this subject in the second series of his History, he acknowledges the
mistake, referring to this document in proof of Magnus’ descent from
Earl John. (Det Norske Folks Historie, Anden Afdeling, vol. i. p.
317.)
Footnote 65:
An entry in the Chamberlain Rolls for that year mentions the dues of
the fourth part of Caithness, which the Earl of Stratherne had. (Comp.
Camer. Scot. i. p. 235.)
Footnote 66:
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