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time a monk of the Cistercian abbey of Melrose, of which he
became abbot between 1422 and 1425. On June 9 of the latter
year he was, as Abbot of Melrose, included in the embassy of the
King of Scotland to the Roman court. On January 8, 1426, and
again on January 8, 1430, he is styled the King's confessor. As
already noted, he was concerned in the trial of Paul Craw, at St.
Andrews, on July 23, 1433, while on November 30 of the same
year he and a number of other Scotsmen had a safe-conduct to
the Council of Basel. About the same period Fogo crossed
swords with Laurence of Lindores on a question of international
policy, with the result that he was summoned to St. Andrews by
the redoubtable inquisitor, where he was speedily convinced of
the hollowness of his arguments. Fogo appears to have held the
abbacy of Melrose till 1
1440 or later.
These proceedings did not quite settle the question of obedience.
Benedict had still a number of sympathisers in the country
sufficient to encourage Harding to carry on an agitation
in his
behalf. But on July n, 1419, a bull was issued by Martin
condemning the errors of Harding and empowering Laurence of
Lindores, as
inquisitor
for Scotland, to seize and detain him. In the
event of his
retracting
his errors, and humbly and publicly seeking
pardon, he was to go unpunished, after being gently admonished
by Laurence ; but if he remained obstinate and refused to walk
in the
light, he was to be dealt with according to use and wont in
such cases. 2 On the same day the Pope wrote thanking the
doctors and masters of the University for the stand they had
taken against Harding, and calling upon them to aid the inquisitor
in
finally putting him and his supporters to silence. is Fogo said
to have been energetic
in procuring these bulls, and would seem to
have been the messenger who brought them from Florence, where
the Pope was holding his court. Shortly
after their arrival
Harding suddenly took ill and died at Lanark. 3 With his demise
1
Scotichronicon, 1. xv. cc. xxiv., xxv. ; 1. xvi. cc. xxiii., xxiv. ; Boece, Scotorum
Hlstoriae, 1. xvii. ; Cal. of Papal Letters, vol. vii. p. 214; Rymer, Foedera, vol. x.
PP- 344, 537; R'g> Mag. Sig. vol. ii. pp. 6, 29 ; Liber de Metros, pp. 493-5745
Morton, Monastic Annals ofTeviotdale, p. 236.
2
Boece's information is that if Harding had not made his escape by flight he
would have been burned as a heretic (Hlstoriae, 1.
xvi.). Of all the persons named
in the early annals of the University, Harding is the most obscure. Bower
for what is known about him. I
appears to be the sole contemporary authority
find no trace of his name in any printed academical or papal register.
3
Scotichronicon, 1. xv. cc. xxiv., xxv. Notarial (but obviously not quite accurate)
copies of these bulls are preserved in the University Library at St. Andrews. I