unjust laws, even to martyrdom, as the same authors demonstrate.
47. Ep. 55.
48. Theophanes Chronogr.
49. Ps. 118.
50. L. 13, ep. 31, 38.
51. We say the same of the compliments which he paid to the impious
French queen Brunehault, at which lord Bolingbroke takes offence;
but a respect is due to persons in power. St. Gregory nowhere
flatters their vices, but admonishes by compliments those who could
not be approached without them. Thus did St. Paul address Agrippa
and Festas, &c. In refusing the sacraments of the church to
impenitent wicked princes, and in checking their crimes by
seasonable remonstrances, St. Gregory was always ready to exert the
zeal of a Baptist: as he opposed the unjust projects of Mauritius,
so would he have done those of Phocas when in his power.
52. The antiquarian will read with pleasure the curious notes of Angelus
Rocca, and the {}enedic{ons on} the pictures of St. Gregory and his
parents, and on this holy pope's pious donations.
53. St. Gregory gave St. Austin a small library which was kept in his
monastery at Canterbury. Of it there still remain a book of the
gospels in the Bodleian library, and another in that of
Corpus-Christi in Cambridge. The other books were psalters, the
Pastorals, the Passionarium Sanctorium, and the like. See Mr.
Wauley, in his catalogue of S{} on manuscripts, at the end of Dr.
Hickes's Thesaurus, p. 172. Many rich vestments, vessels, relics,
and a pall given by St. Gregory to St. Austin, were kept in the same
monastery. Their original inventory, drawn up by Thomas of Elmham,
in the reign of Henry V., is preserved in the Harleian library, and
published by the learned lady, Mrs. E. Elstob, at the end of a Saxon
panegyric on St. Gregory.
54. Gregor. M. in l. 1. Reg. c. 16, v. 3 and 9.

ANNOTATION

ON

THE LIFE OF ST. GREGORY.

BARONIUS thinks that his monastery of Saint Andrew's followed the rule
of St. Equitius, because its first abbots were drawn out of his
province, Valeria. On another side, Dom Ma-billon (t. 1. Actor. Sanct. &
t. 2, Analect. and Annal. Bened. l, 6,) maintains that it followed the
rule of St. Benedict, which St. Gregory often commends and prefers to all
other rules. His colleagues, in their life of St. Gregory, Natalis
Alexander, in his Church History, and others, have written to support
the same opinion: who all, with Mabillon, borrow all their argum