Note 32 — Chapter III · THE ORIGIN OF THE WESTERN RITE
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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.