 Cynesige had been a royal clerk prior to his appointment to York in 1051 , although the monks of Peterborough Abbey maintained that he had been a monk in their house . It is possible he was both a monk and a royal clerk . He delayed his visit to Rome to receive his pallium until 1055 , when he was given it by Pope Victor II . During his time as archbishop he was claimed to have consecrated both John and Magsuen as Bishops of Glasgow , although the two bishops probably never lived in their diocese . John may have ended up as the Bishop of Mecklenburg in Germany . Cynesige dedicated the church of the Abbey of Waltham Holy Cross in the presence of King Edward the Confessor around 3 May 1060 . This was at the invitation of Earl Harold Godwinson of Wessex . The chronicle of Waltham Abbey states that Cynesige did the consecration because the archbishopric of Canterbury was vacant . However , there was an occupant of Canterbury , Stigand , but his election to Canterbury was not considered canonical by the papacy , and Harold may have excluded him because of concerns about Stigand 's canonical status . 
