Note 723 — Chapter VIII · THE EARLY YEARS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.[497] A.D. 1028–1051. (continued 2)

Gest. Epp. Cam. ap. Pertz, vii. 474, 485. Gerard’s objections are given at great length, and are well worth studying, as a setting forth of the Regale and Pontificale. Some of the French Bishops seemed to have ventured on a pious fraud; “Unus eorum cœlitùs sibi delatas dixit esse literas, quæ pacem monerent renovandam in terra.” The chronicler of Cambray quite approves the opposition of the local Prelate; “Alia quoque importabilia quamplurima dederunt mandata, quæ oneri visa sunt replicare. Hâc novitate pulsatus mandati præsul noster, infirmitatique peccantium condescendens, secundùm decreta sanctorum patrum ad singula suum formavit eloquium.”