[12] Epist, lib. 7. indict, i. ep. 34.

[13] Nicephor. Constantinopolit. p. 20.

[14] Theophanes, Chronograph. p. 318.

[15] Chronicon Casinense, lib. iii. c. 55.

[16] There is some account of its recovery by a Genoese, but it is
clouded with miracles. He walked over the sea, as over dry
land, &c. See Muraturi, Dissert. 58. vol. v. p. 10, ed. 1741.

[17] See Raynaldus, Aunual. Eccles. A.D. 1217, No. 39, and Pagi,
Critic. A.D. 1187, No. 4.

[18] See Dupleix, Historic de France, vol. ii. p. 257. ed. 1634.
The original authority is Nangis (Annales de St. Louis, p. 174.
ed. 1761.) Rigord, who speaks of the sale of this relic to
Philip Augustus, appears to be guilty of a fable or anachronism,
in which he was follow by Raynaldus, Annal. Eccles. A.D. 1205,
No. 60.

[19] See L'Estoile, Journal de Henri III., vol. i. p. 125, 161,
ed. 1744.

[20] Zech. ch. xiv. ver. 20.

[21] Annal. Eccles. A.D. 326. No. 54.

[22] See a Letter from Innocent VI. ap. Raynald Annal. Eccles. A.D.