Note 346 — LECTURE III LIFE OF ALFRED PRIOR TO HIS ACCESSION TO THE THRONE
Reading edition
Waitz, Deutsche Verfassungsgesch. ii. 133, cited by Stubbs, Const. Hist. i. 145; the authority is Gregory of Tours: ‘in Basilica beati Martini tunica blatea indutus est, et chlamyde, imponens uertici diadema,’ ii. 38.