[213] It may be helpful to remember that the abbey was originally outside the ancient Roman city, and its district was called Martinopolis. The ancient Gallican bishoprics were bishoprics of cities rather than of dioceses in our wide sense of the word. This may conceivably have a bearing on the curious question raised by Hadrian.
[214] See my Constitution of French Chapters, Proceedings of St. Paul’s Ecclesiological Society, Vol. III, 1895.
[215] Micah v. 5, 6.
[216] James ii. 13.
[217] We know from other sources that this “&c.” meant Most Serene Augustus, crowned by God, great peace-making Emperor, Governor of the Roman Empire, by the mercy of God King of the Franks and of the Lombards.
[218] The emperor irresistibly reminds us of the Eton master and the boy who complained that his name was not that called for punishment:—
Sive tu mavis Bōsănquet vocari
Sive Bōsănquet,
Te vapulabo.
[219] That is, Theodulfus, the Bishop of Orleans.