atori, Assemani and other eminent critics admit its authenticity.
There is however another sacramentary _perhaps_ more ancient called
the Leonian, because it is attributed by the learned to Leo the great,
A.D. 450. It was first published by Bianchini in the 4th volume of
Anastasius the librarian from a Verona MS. written 1100 years ago.]

[Footnote 8: This new Gregorian sacramentary was carried to England
by St. Augustin and the other missionaries. Mr. Palmer and after him
Mr. Froude (Remains, vol. 2nd, p. 387) give a similar account of the
Roman liturgy. They, like archbishop Wake, attribute the origin of the
Roman, Oriental, Ethiopic and Mozarabic liturgies to St. Peter, St.
James, St. Mark and St. John, and observe that all other liturgies
are copied from one or other of these. "In each of these four original
liturgies the eucharist is regarded as a mystery and as a sacrifice"
p. 395: they all agree in the principal ceremonies of the mass, and
all contain a prayer for the rest and peace of all those who have
departed this life in God's faith and fear" p. 393. "Now it may
be reasonably presumed", says archbishop Wake "that those passages
wherein all these liturgies agree, in sense at least, if not in words,
were first prescribed in the writings of the ancient fathers". See
Tracts for the times, no. 63.]

[Footnote 9: They who wish for further details may consult Le Brun,
Card. Bona, Martene, Gavant, Rock's Hierurgia etc.]

[Footnote 10: Because anciently sung from the _steps_ of the _ambo_ or
pulpit, according to Rabanus Maurus an author of the 9th century, and
others. In the ancient churches there were generally in the _chorus_
or choir two ambones, one from which at solemn masses the lector and
at a later period the subdeacon used to sing the gospel, with his face
usually turned towards that side of the church, where the _men_ were
assembled; at Rome this was generally the south side. At low masses
the missal was removed from the epistle side of the altar at the
beginning of the offertory, in order to leave room for the offerings,
according to an Ordinarium of Monte Casino of the year 1100. It has
for a long time been customary to remove it before the gospel, which
the priest recites turned towards the same direction as the deacon at
high mass. Mystical meanings were afterwards assigned for this removal
of the book.]

[Footnote 11: It is astonishing how Mr. Palmer could assert that "Leo
bishop of Rome in the fif