especially their insertion in the Iron crown of Lombardy, would require,
though scarcely deserve, a separate essay.


[2] Read before the Royal Society of Literature, but since altered
by the author.

[3] For the discovery of the cross, compare Theodoret, lib. i. c.
18; Socrates, lib. i. c. 17; and Sozomen, lib. ii. c. 1, &c.

[4] De Vita Constant, lib. iii. c. 33.

[5] St. Cyril ap. Baronium, Annal. Eccles. A.D. 326, No. 50. One
whole epistle of St. Paulinis of Nola (the eleventh) is also
devoted to this subject.

[6] The participation of the Jews is positively asserted by
Eutychius (Annal. vol. ii. p. 212,) but doubted by Theophanes
(Chronograph, p. 252:) [Greek: os phasi tines], are his words.

[7] Eutychius, Annal, vol. ii. p. 242-247.

[8] Ducange, Gloss. Med. Graec., p. 1437.

[9] Theophanes, Chronograph. p. 280.

[10] Baronius, Annal. Eccles. A.D. 643. No. 1-4.

[11] Bede, Op. vol. iii. p. 370. Ed. Colon. Agripp. 1688.