171,) and the Codex Carolinus supposes, this ample gift.

Both are contemporary records and the latter is the more authentic, since it has been preserved, not in the Papal, but the Imperial, library.] [Footnote 63: Between the exorbitant claims, and narrow concessions, of interest and prejudice, from which even Muratori (Antiquitat.tom.i.

p.
63-68) is not exempt, I have been guided, in the limits of the Exarchate and Pentapolis, by the Dissertatio Chorographica Italiae Medii Aevi, tom.x.p.

160-180.] [Footnote 64: Spoletini deprecati sunt, ut eos in servitio B.Petri receperet et more Romanorum tonsurari faceret, (Anastasius, p.

185.) Yet it may be a question whether they gave their own persons or their country.] [Footnote 65: The policy and donations of Charlemagne are carefully examined by St.Marc, (Abrege, tom.i.p.