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Probably the next abbot was Robert, ■who held the office soon after
1244, and resigned it in 1270.'
Nicholas succeeded to Robert. He was abbot in tlie end of Sep-
tember 1272.^ He was elected to the see of Caithness in 1273 ; but
returned from Ronie, unconfirmed, in ]275.'^
The next whom we find as abbot is Thomas, who was probably elected
upon the promotion of Nicholas to the see of Caithness. He did ho-
mage to Edward at Perth on the 24th July 1291, and again in 1296.
He was abbot of Scone when the monastery was destroyed by the
English army, on the 17th of August 1298,* after the battle of FaU
kirk. Ho assisted at the coronation of Robert Bruce, at Scone, on the
27th JMarch 1306. In September 1306, he was made prisoner by the
English army, and sent, along with the Bishops of St. Andrews and
Glasgow, to England, and confined in fetters.^ After these events, we
are not surprised to find Edward applying to the Pope, to sanction the
translation of the Abbey of Scone, from its position in the midst of a
perverse people."
1 Chartulary of Inchaffray and Fordun. Bacu- muniments of Scotland, after the decision « hich
lum pastoralem resignarit ob persecutiones conven- awarded him the kingdom in 1292, is mentioned a
tus sui intolerabiles, et dominus Nicolaus quidam letter of //. Abbot of Scone, obliging himself to
neophytus, post multas disceptationes inter ipsum et brew good, stout, and elear heer, (bonam, fortem,
conventum de Scona prehabitas, plus domuii Regis et claram certieiam,) for the king and his court
timore quam amore, abbas effectus est. Iste Ni- as often as they should come to Scone. If the
colaus ad episcopatum Cathanensem electus est, eo initial letter of tliis Abbofs name is correctly
quod abbas de Scona canonicus sit ecclesie Cathan- given in that record, the preceding list must be
ensis, cujus apicem plus regio precario quam vite defective. No clue is afforded to the period of his
merito adeptus est Nicolaus abbas de singular undertaliing.
Scona et electus Cathanensis ad curiam cassatus * N. 124.
est. — Fordun, x. 27, 33. ' In compedihus ferreit. Foedera. N. E. 996.
> N. 119. " Medio perrerse nationis positam. Foedera.
' Fordun In the remarkable document whieh I. 1003.
records the delivery to Balliol of the national