ent. 4, part 2, ch. 4, sec. 5; Chambers' Encyclopaedia, art.
Sabbath; Encyclopaedia Britannica, ninth ed., art. Sunday; Peter Heylyn,
"History of the Sabbath," part 2, ch. 3 (2d ed., rev., London, 1636, pp.
66, 67).

Page 54. PROPHETIC DATES.--See note for page 329.

Page 56. FORGED WRITINGS.--Among the documents that at the present time are
generally admitted to be forgeries, the Donation of Constantine and the
Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals are of primary importance.

In citing facts concerning the question, "When and by whom was
Constantine's Donation forged?" M. Gosselin, Director of the Seminary of
St. Sulpice (Paris), says:

"Though this document is unquestionably spurious, it would be difficult to
determine with precision the date of its fabrication. M. de Marca,
Muratori, and other learned critics, are of the opinion that it was
composed in the eighth century, before the reign of Charlemagne. Muratori,
moreover, thinks it probable that it may have induced that monarch and
Pepin to be so generous to the Holy See."--_Gosselin_, "_The Power of the
Pope during the Middle Ages_," _Vol. I_, _p. 321_ (translated by the Rev.
Matthew Kelly, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth; Baltimore, J. Murphy &
Co., 1853).

On the date of the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals, see Mosheim,
"Ecclesiastical History," bk. 3, cent. 9, part 2, ch. 2, sec. 8. As Dr.
Murdock, the translator, points out in a foot-note, the learned Catholic
historian, M. L'Abbe Fleury, in his "Ecclesiastical History" (diss. 4,
sec. 1), says of these decretals, that "they crept to light near the close
of the eighth century." Fleury, writing near the close of the seventeenth
century, says further that these "false decretals were looked upon as
authentic for the space of eight hundred years; and it was with much
difficulty that they were given up in the last century. It is true that at
present there are hardly any, though meanly instructed in these matters,
who do not acknowledge that these decretals are false."--_Fleury_,
"_Ecclesiastical History_," _bk. 44_, _par. 54_ (G. Adam's translation,
London, 1732, Vol. V, p. 196). See also Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire," ch. 49, par. 16.

Page 57. DICTATES OF HILDEBRAND (GREGORY VII.).--See Baronius.
"Ecclesiastical Annals," An. 1076 (Antwerp ed., 1608, Vol. XI, page 479).
A copy of the "Dictates," in the original, may also be found in Gieseler,
"Ecclesiastical History," period 3, sec. 47, note 4 (ed. 1836, tr.