He had received a grant of the earldom of Caithness from King James II. 28th August 1455, as formerly mentioned, p. lxi. Footnote 112: Diplom. Norvegicum, v. 599. Footnote 113: Ibid. v. 605. Footnote 114: These islands had been ceded by Norway to Scotland in 1266 on condition of an annual payment of 100 marks, which at this time had fallen into arrear for 26 years. Footnote 115: His words imply that it was by request of the Orkneymen themselves that Adalbert sent them preachers “extremi venerant Islani, Gronlani, et Orchadum legati petentes ut prædicatores illuc dirigeret, quod et fecit.” Footnote 116: Keyser, Den Norske Kirkes Historie, i. 158; Torfæus, i. 160; Munch, Det Norske Folks Historie, ii. p. 216; Grub’s Eccles. Hist. i. 252. Footnote 117: Twysden, Decem Scriptores, pp. 1709-13. Footnote 118: Printed in the Notes and Illustrations to the Scala Cronica (Maitland Club), p. 234. Footnote 119: Monasticon Anglicanum, vi. p. 1186. Footnote 120: Flor. Wig. Chron. Monum. Hist. Britann. p. 644. Footnote 121: The name Christ’s Church, says Munch, was only given to a cathedral church. Footnote 122: Sir Henry Dryden’s Notices of Ancient Churches in Orkney, in the _Orcadian_, 1867. Footnote 123: Munch’s Catalogue of the Bishops of Orkney, Bannatyne Miscellany, iii. 181. Footnote 124: See the Saga, p. 126. Footnote 125: Fornmanna Sögur, vol. vi. Footnote 126: Diplom. Norvegicum, vii. p. 2. Footnote 127: See p. lxxx. Footnote 128: Hakonar Saga hins gamla, Flateyjarbók, iii. 52. Footnote 129: Diplom. Norvegicum, vii. p. 13. Footnote 130: Ibid. i. 32. Footnote 131: Keyser, Den Norske Kirkes Historie, ii. 210. Torfæus Hist. Orc., p. 172. Footnote 132: Diplom. Norvegicum. The Chron. de Lanercost, under the date 1275, incidentally notices a Bishop of Orkney, named William, who related many wonderful things of the islands under Norwegian rule, and specially of Iceland. Munch supposes him to have been one of the titular bishops consecrated at York, and suggests that he may have been the author of the curious fragment of a Chronicon Norvegiæ preserved in the Panmure transcript, along with the transcript of the Diploma of the succession of the Earls of Orkney, printed at Christiania, 1850. (Munch, Symbolæ, pp. 2, 18; Det Norske Folks Historie, iv. part 1, p. 678; Chron. de Lanercost, p. 97.) Footnote 133: Keyser, Den Norske Kirkes Historie, ii. 216. Footnote 134: Diplom. Norvegicum, vii. p. 134. Footnote 135: Ibid. p. 134. Footnote 136: Printed from the Panmure transcript in the Miscellany of the Spalding Club, vol. v. p. 257. Footnote 137: Theiner, Vetera Monumenta, p. 376. Footnote 138: