...is represented M resigning to the popes, on betaking himself to his new eastern metropolis, the full and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the west. Appealing to these documents as authentic in one of his letters to Charlemagne, Adrian founds on them...

...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East; and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West."9 This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted...

...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East ; and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West f . This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of...

...the seat and patrimony of St Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the Last ; and resigned to the popes the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West f . This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of...

...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the east ; and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the west So deep was the ignorance and credulity of the times, that the most absurd of fables was received with...

...Popes*'---hy the latter of which it was pretended thnt Conttantme had made a grant to th« Church of the free and perpetual Sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West; a grant which the Popes represented as placing a solemn 'ohligation on the Princes of succeeding centuries...

...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from his seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the east, and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of the...

...recompensed. His. royal proselyte withdrew from his seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the east, and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of the...

...De Mon. b. iii. ; and Gibbon considers it altogether a forgery. " This memorable gift," says he, " was first introduced to the world by an epistle of...fictitious deed was transpierced by the pen of Laurentius \ r alla, an eloquent critic, and Roman patriot."—Decline and Fall, chap. 49. CANTO XX. 15. Compelled...

...Emperor Constantine of the leprosy, as a reward for it, received a grant, to the successive Popes, of the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. Though all now admit this claim to have been a forgery, still, in that age of darkness, it effected...