53-60; and especially Lecky, History of European Morals, vol.i, chapter on The Conversion of Rome; also his History of England in the Eighteenth Century, vol.i, chap.i.

For curious details regarding the mode of conducting the ceremony, see Evelyn's Diary; also Lecky, as above.

For the royal touch in France, and for a claim to its possession in feudal times by certain noble families, see Rambaud, Hist.

de la Civ.

francaise, p.