^{Page 29 of note 1} HE, I, 30.

^{Page 29 of note 2} Epist. XI, 56. References to Gregory’s correspondence are in the edition by Ewald and Hartmann, MGH, Epist. I and II.

^{Page 29 of note 3} Except for a hint in my paper, ‘The chronology of the Gregorian mission to England: Bede’s narrative and Gregory’s correspondence’, JEH, XIV (1963), 23 n. 2 Google Scholar.

^{Page 30 of note 1} Geschichte des Papsttums, II (Tübingen 1933), 506.

^{Page 30 of note 2} Epist. I, 17; cf. II, 4.

^{Page 30 of note 3} Epist. I, 17.

^{Page 30 of note 4} E.g. Epist. I, 42; VIII, 25; IX, 38, 40, 195; XIII, 15.

^{Page 30 of note 5} Epist. I, 34; cf. II, 6.

^{Page 31 of note 1} Cf. Epist. II, 38; VI, 29; vIII, 23.

^{Page 31 of note 2} Epist. XIII, 15.

^{Page 31 of note 3} Epist. V, 7.

^{Page 31 of note 4} Epist. I, 45.

^{Page 31 of note 5} The congratulations which Gregory offered to King Reccared on his anti-Semitic legislation are altogether out of keeping with the prevailing mood of his instructions to the Italian bishops and agents on Church lands. His warm approval of the Visigothic measures I think refers only to their attempt to extirpate Christian slavery to Jewish masters. His correspondence abounds with censures of repeated instances of this, and he seems to have been particularly worried about the prevalence of this abuse in Visigothic Narbonne. This might explain his apparent inconsistency.

^{Page 31 of note 6} Epist. III, 59.

^{Page 31 of note 7} Epist. V, 7.

^{Page 31 of note 8} Epist. XI, 33.

^{Page 31 of note 9} Epist. VIII, I.

^{Page 32 of note 1} Epist. IV, 29

^{Page 32 of note 2} Epist. IV, 23

^{Page 32 of note 3} Epist. IV, 26

^{Page 32 of note 4} Ibid.

^{Page 32 of note 5} Epist. IV, 25

^{Page 32 of note 6} Epist. XI, 12

^{Page 32 of note 7} Epist. IV, 27

^{Page 32 of note 8} Epist. V, 38

^{Page 32 of note 9} Epist. IX, 204

^{Page 33 of note 1} Epist. XI, 39 = HE, I, 29.

^{Page 33 of note 2} Epist. XI, 36 = (in part) HE, I, 31.

^{Page 33 of note 3} Epist. XI, 37 = HE, I, 32.

^{Page 33 of note 4} Epist. XI, 35.

^{Page 33 of note 5} I have discussed the interpretation of these letters in my paper referred to above, p. 29 n. 3.

^{Page 34 of note 1} Cf. Epist. IV, 27, referred to above.

^{Page 34 of note 2} Epist. XI, 56 = HE, I, 30, referred to on p. 29, above.

^{Page 36 of note 1} Cf. HE, I, 26.

^{Page 36 of note 2} Cf. HE, II, 5-6.

^{Page 36 of note 3} Gregory’s usual procedure is to make maximum use of any available messenger. Unlike all the remaining correspondence with England and Gaul, this letter appears to have been despatched by itself through a special messenger.

^{Page 37 of note 1} Tangl, no. 37.