 This Bull was confirmed by Pope Alexander 's successor Pope Lucius III . Jocelin had obtained this confirmation while at Rome in late 1181 and early 1182 . He had been sent there by King William , along with abbots of Melrose , Dunfermline and Kelso and the prior of Inchcolm , in order to appeal to the Pope regarding his stance in a struggle over the Bishopric of St Andrews and the sentence of excommunication and interdict the Pope had placed over the king and kingdom . The dispute concerned the election to the bishopric of John the Scot , which had been opposed by the king , who organised the election of his own candidate , Hugh . The mission was successful . The Pope lifted the interdict , absolved the king and appointed two legates to investigate the issue of the St Andrews succession . The Pope even sent the king a Golden Rose , an item usually given to the Prefect of Rome . The issue of the succession , however , did not go away . In 1186 , Jocelin , along with the abbots of Melrose , Dunfermline and Newbattle , excommunicated Hugh on the instructions of Pope Lucius . Hugh travelled to Rome in 1188 , and obtained absolution , but he died of the pestilence in that city a few days later , thus allowing the issue to be resolved . 
