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And by Anastasius Sinaita, or Nicænus:

And long after them by Petrus Cluniacensis, in his treatise against the followers of Peter Bruse, in France:

Nay, in the West, not the profit only, but the lawfulness also of these doings for the dead was called in question; as partly may be collected by Boniface, Archbishop of Mentz's consulting with Pope Gregory, about 730 years after the birth of our Saviour,

(which he should have no reason to do if no question had been made thereof among the Germans); and is plainly delivered by Hugo Etherianus, about 1170 years after Christ, in these words:

Whereby it may appear that this practice wanted not opposition even then, when in the Papacy it was advanced unto its greatest height.