derisione dignas naenias, &c., &c.] [Footnote 83: The assemblies of Charlemagne were political, as well as ecclesiastical; and the three hundred members, (Nat.

Alexander, sec.
viii.p.

53,) who sat and voted at Frankfort, must include not only the bishops, but the abbots, and even the principal laymen.] [Footnote 84: Qui supra sanctissima patres nostri (episcopi et sacerdotes) omnimodis servitium et adorationem imaginum renuentes contempserunt, atque consentientes condemnaverunt, (Concil.tom.ix.

p.
101, Canon.ii.

Franckfurd.) A polemic must be hard-hearted indeed, who does not pity the efforts of Baronius, Pagi, Alexander, Maimbourg, &c., to elude this unlucky sentence.].