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of the chapter (l). After obtaining this appointment, he returned to Scot-
land. On the 24th of October, the English king granted a safe conduct
for "Mr. William de Laweder, the bishop of Glasgow, to come from France
to Scotland through England, with 24 horsemen in his company" (m).
Bishop Lauder laid the foundation of the vestry of the cathedral church,
and he built the great steeple of stone, as high as the first battlement, where
the arms of Lauder of Haltoun are still to be seen in several places. Bishop
Lauder was appointed the chancellor of Scotland by the regent Murdoch,
Duke of Albany, in 1422, if not before; and he held the office till his death,
which took place on the 14th of June 1425.
21.  John Cameron, of the family of Lochiel, was official of Lothian in 1422,
and he was confessor and secretary to the Earl of Douglas, who presented
him to the rectory of Cambuslang, in Lanarkshire.    He was provost of the
collegiate church of Lincluden,  and secretary to the king in 1424  and  in
1425.    He was keeper of the privy seal in 1425 and 1426, and he was elected
bishop of Glasgow in 1426, and his election was confirmed the same year.    He
was appointed chancellor of Scotland in 1427, an office which he held till 1439.
After being employed in many embassies, Bishop Cameron died on the 24th of
December 1446-7.
22.  James Bruce, a son of Sir Robert Bruce of Clackmannan, was rector
of Kilmeny in Fife, was made bishop of Dunkeld in 1441,  and chancellor
of Scotland in 1444.    He was translated to the vacant see of Glasgow in
1447, but before he could be  installed, he  died  during the  same  year  at
Edinburgh.
23.  William Turnbull, who was a son of Turnbull of Bedrule, in Roxburgh-
shire, was a prebendary of Glasgow, doctor of laws, and archdeacon of Lothian.
He was also a privy counsellor, and keeper of the privy seal from 1441 to
1447.    When Bishop Bruce was translated from Dunkeld to Glasgow in 1447,
Turnbull was elected the bishop of Dunkeld, but Bruce dying in the same year,
Turnbull was then elected the bishop of Glasgow in 1447, and consecrated in
1448.     He founded the college of Glasgow in 1451, and he died at Rome on
the 3rd of September 1454.
24.  Andrew Muirhead, a son of Muirhead of Lachop in Clydesdale, became
rector of Hamilton and canon of Glasgow.    He was made the bishop of Glas-
gow, 1454.    After serving his country, and benefiting his diocese, he died on
the 20th of November 1473.
(l) Keith, 146.    Spottiswoode's Hist. 114; Innes's MS. Chronol. stated that Lauder was elected
bishop of Glasgow in 1408.                                 (m) Rot. Scot., ii. 189.