[29] I am using here the account given by Tellez of two different coronations.

[30] c. 4 (P. L. XCVI. 766).

[31] Reginonis Chron., s.a. 749. Pertz, M. G. Hist. Script., I. 556.

[32] Ibid. s. a. 753. Dom Cabrol, DACL, ‘Bretagne (grande-),’ col. 1238, thinks that it was from England that the custom of unction passed into France, and that it was imported there by Boniface, himself an Englishman. But this is a very precarious theory in view of the scanty evidence for English coronations during this period. See pp. 58-60.

[33] Regin. Chron., s.a. 752. (Pertz, l.c.)

[34] See p. 58 f.

[35] Gildas, de excidio Britanniae, c. XIX.

[36] Adamnan, Vit. S. Columbani, III. 5.

[37] Chron. Moiss., s.a. 801 (for 800), Pertz, M. G. H. Script., I. 305.

[38] Duchesne, Lib. Pontificalis, II. p. 7.