om the place
where it met. But this is impossible, for one day's sail brought him
to Scotland (Sec. 68). He seems to have embarked at Bangor, which is
about a hundred miles north of Inispatrick.

[832] Cp. Lam. ii. 11.

[833] Ruth i. 14.

[834] Matt. xx. 20, combined with Mark x. 35, 36.

[835] Susanna, 22.

[836] That is, the first day after his landing in Scotland.

[837] The Green Lake. It is now Soulseat, about eight miles from
Cairngarroch. At this place Fergus, lord of Galloway (p. 76, n. 4),
founded a famous monastery of Premonstratensian canons (Grub, _Eccl.
Hist. of Scotland_, i. 269), which must not be confused with Malachy's
more humble community.

[838] The abbot was Michael, who had belonged to the community at
Bangor (Sec. 15). As this new community is called "a convent of monks"
we may infer that it was of the Cistercian Order.

[839] Note the leisureliness of the journey in its earlier stages.
Later on Malachy encountered difficulties, which no doubt involved
further delay (Serm. i. Sec. 1).

[840] Gisburn is a village in the West Riding of Yorkshire on the
river Ribble, not far from the border of Lancashire. It is clear that
on this occasion Malachy followed the line of Watling Street, which
ran through Ribchester, on the Ribble, about fourteen miles from
Gisburn. His road probably passed within three miles of that place
between Settle and Chetburn. He seems to have avoided entering England
as long as possible--supposing no doubt, and with good reason, that he
was safer in the dominions of David than in those of Stephen. For
details of the journey see _R.I.A._ xxxv. 239 ff., 249. The monastery
of Gisburn, of which the ruins remain to the south of the parish
church, was founded for Augustinian canons, in 1129, by Robert de Brus
(Dugdale, vi. 1, 265 ff.).

[841] Malachy was probably suspected (not without cause) of being an
emissary of the supporters of the Empress Matilda. He had just spent
some days with David I., and with him and his stepson Waltheof he was
on terms of intimate friendship (Secs. 36, 40). King David invaded
England in the following year.

[842] The reference is apparently to King Stephen's attempt to prevent
Theobald of Canterbury and other bishops from attending the Council of
Rheims in March 1148. But Malachy does not seem to have been summoned
to the Council, and he did not reach the Channel till long after it
was over (see next note).

[843] Eugenius left Clairvaux