The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 580, Supplemental Number

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Copied by permission of the Proprietor.

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Read before the Royal Society of Literature, but since altered by the author.

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For the discovery of the cross, compare Theodoret, lib. i. c. 18; Socrates, lib. i. c. 17; and Sozomen, lib. ii. c. 1, &c.

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De Vita Constant, lib. iii. c. 33.

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St. Cyril ap. Baronium, Annal. Eccles. A.D. 326, No. 50. One whole epistle of St. Paulinis of Nola (the eleventh) is also devoted to this subject.

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The participation of the Jews is positively asserted by Eutychius (Annal. vol. ii. p. 212,) but doubted by Theophanes Chronograph, p. 252:) [Greek: os phasi tines], are his words.

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Eutychius, Annal, vol. ii. p. 242-247.

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Ducange, Gloss. Med. Graec., p. 1437.

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Theophanes, Chronograph. p. 280.

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Baronius, Annal. Eccles. A.D. 643. No. 1-4.

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Bede, Op. vol. iii. p. 370. Ed. Colon. Agripp. 1688.

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Epist, lib. 7. indict, i. ep. 34.

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Nicephor. Constantinopolit. p. 20.

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Theophanes, Chronograph. p. 318.

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Chronicon Casinense, lib. iii. c. 55.

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There is some account of its recovery by a Genoese, but it is clouded with miracles. He walked over the sea, as over dry land, &c. See Muraturi, Dissert. 58. vol. v. p. 10, ed. 1741.

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See Raynaldus, Aunual. Eccles. A.D. 1217, No. 39, and Pagi, Critic. A.D. 1187, No. 4.

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See Dupleix, Historic de France, vol. ii. p. 257. ed. 1634. The original authority is Nangis (Annales de St. Louis, p. 174. ed. 1761.) Rigord, who speaks of the sale of this relic to Philip Augustus, appears to be guilty of a fable or anachronism, in which he was follow by Raynaldus, Annal. Eccles. A.D. 1205, No. 60.

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See L'Estoile, Journal de Henri III., vol. i. p. 125, 161, ed. 1744.

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Zech. ch. xiv. ver. 20.

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Annal. Eccles. A.D. 326. No. 54.

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See a Letter from Innocent VI. ap. Raynald Annal. Eccles. A.D. 1354. No. 18.