Footnotes
[54]
M. de la Thaumassire has collected many of them. See, for
instance, chapters 41, 46, and others.
[56]
Let not the bishops, says Charles the Bald, in the "Capitulary" of
844, art. 8, under pretence of the authority of making canons, oppose
this constitution, or neglect the observance of it. It seems he already
foresaw the fall thereof.
[57]
In the collection of canons a vast number of the decretals of
the popes were inserted; they were very few in the ancient collection.
Dionysius Exiguus put a great many into his; but that of Isidorus
Mercator was stuffed with genuine and spurious decretals. The old
collection obtained in France till Charlemagne. This prince received
from the hand of Pope Adrian I the collection of Dionysius Exiguus, and
caused it to be accepted. The collection of Isidorus Mercator appeared
in France about the reign of Charlemagne; people grew passionately fond
of it: to this succeeded what we now call the course of canon law.
