condonavit, sumptoque archiepiscopatus pallio, cum muneribus diversisque sanctorum reliquiis legatos honorifice remisit ad patriam.” Pertz, ii. 345. With such provocation, the Popes would indeed have acted an unwise part in not availing themselves of the ready service of their Anglosaxon converts! Footnote 859: Mr. Soames very cursorily says: “Augustine received about the same time from Gregory the insidious compliment of a pall. He was charged also to establish twelve suffragan bishops, and to select an archbishop for the see of York. Over this prelate, who was likewise to have under his jurisdiction twelve suffragan sees, he had a personal grant of precedence. After his death the two archbishops were to rank according to priority of consecration.” Anglosax. Church, p. 55. The language, thus most carefully selected, is intended to meet any argument which might be derived from the despatch of the pallium, in token of assumption of authority by the Pope. But there can be little doubt, whatever its original character may have been, that this distinction was both intended and accepted as a mark of the archiepiscopal dignity, and as conveying powers which without it could not be exercised. This was obviously the way Beda understood it, and Gregory meant it to be understood. In his answers to Augustine’s questions, one of which referred to the relations which were to subsist between the Gallican and English churches, the pope thus refuses to give his missionary any authority over the continental bishops:—“In Galliarum episcopis nullam tibi auctoritatem tribuimus; quia ab antiquis praedecessorum meorum temporibus pallium Arelatensis episcopus accepit, quem nos privare auctoritate percepta minime debemus.” Hist. Eccl. i. 27. And in a subsequent letter to Augustine the same pope writes:—“Et quia nova Anglorum aecclesia ad omnipotentis Dei gratiam, eodem Domino largiente et te laborante, perducta est, usum tibi pallii in ea ad sola missarum solemnia agenda concedimus: _ita ut_ per loca singula duodecim episcopos ordines, qui tuae subiaceant ditioni, quatenus Lundoniensis civitatis episcopus semper in posterum a synodo propria debeat consecrari, atque honoris pallium ab hac sancta et apostolica, cui Deo auctore deservio, sede precipiat. Ad Eburacam vero civitatem te volumus episcopum mittere, quem ipse iudicaveris ordinare; ita duntaxat, ut si eadem civitas cum finitimis locis verbum Dei receperit, ipse quoque duodecim episcopos ordinet, et metropolitani honore perfruatur; _quia_ ei quoque, si vita comes fuerit, pallium tribuere Domino favente disponimus.” Beda, Hist. Eccl. i. 29. On which Beda remarks:—“Misit etiam litteras in quibus significat se ei pallium direxisse, simul et insinuat qualiter episcopos in Britannia constituere debuisset.” Thirty years later, Pope Honorius sent palls both to Paulinus of York and Honorius of