A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . repermitted to reverently king first stated the reasonsthat had led him to come toKoine. The rest of the daily ses-sions were devoted to arrangingthe business to which he had al-luded. First came the most difii-cnlt and important matter, therefutation of the charges broughtagainst Leo by his imprisoned op-ponents. How the investigationwas conducted, or whether anyprocedure which can be called aninvestigation took place at all,cannot be determined with cer-tainty. Apparently the plaintiffsdeclin
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . repermitted to reverently king first stated the reasonsthat had led him to come toKoine. The rest of the daily ses-sions were devoted to arrangingthe business to which he had al-luded. First came the most difii-cnlt and important matter, therefutation of the charges broughtagainst Leo by his imprisoned op-ponents. How the investigationwas conducted, or whether anyprocedure which can be called aninvestigation took place at all,cannot be determined with cer-tainty. Apparently the plaintiffsdeclined to maintain their chargesformally; they could not expectsuccess, as the relations betweenLeo and the king were so , it was considered highlyadvisable, in the interests of thepapal dignity, that Leo should dis-arm all suspicion by a solenni oathof exculpation, and so silence hisadversaries for all time. On No-vember 23 he mounted the pulpitbefore the assembled synod, and,holding a copy of the Gospelsabove liis head, swore bef(Ue thegrave of St. Peter, and with invo-. leniasne. nil ;i II ;-:!! iai\ oi i liar-Iluis, National 1 This Evangeliary was prepared , by order of Charleinasne and his wife IlildeKard, by the scribe Godescalc. The letters on tliis ^)a^e are painted in gokland silver upon purple parchment, and read IN ILLO TEMrOKE. 72 TUE liESTORATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIliE. cation of the Trinity, a voluntary oath before God that he wasinnocent of the crime that was laid to his charge, since he hadneither committed it nor caused others to commit it. The singingof the Te Deum, in which the whole assembly joyfully united,closed this extraordinary proceeding. The pope did not fail to ex-plain on this occasion that he had acted entirely of his own freewill, and that no obligation for any of his successors or anotherbishop to do likewise could be derived from his conduct. On the same day happened an event insignificant in itself, butyet
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