But I have likewise examined the original monuments of the reigns of Pepin and Charlemagne, in the 5th volume of the Historians of France.] [Footnote 96: The vision of Weltin, composed by a monk, eleven years after the death of Charlemagne, shows him in purgatory, with a vulture, who is perpetually gnawing the guilty member, while the rest of his body, the emblem of his virtues, is sound and perfect, (see Gaillard tom.ii.p.

317-360.)] [Footnote 97: The marriage of Eginhard with Imma, daughter of Charlemagne, is, in my opinion, sufficiently refuted by the probum and suspicio that sullied these fair damsels, without excepting his own wife, (c.xix.p.

98-100, cum Notis Schmincke.) The husband must have been too strong for the historian.] [Footnote 971: This charge of incest, as Mr.Hallam justly observes, "seems to have originated in a misinterpreted passage of Eginhard." Hallam's Middle Ages, vol.i.p.

16 .-- M.] [Footnote 98: Besides the massacres and transmigrations, the pain of death was pronounced against the following crimes: 1.

The refusal of baptism.2.The false pretence of baptism.3.A relapse to idolatry.