]
[Footnote 3: S. Greg. M. lib. VII, epist. 64.]
[Footnote 4: See Le Brun, Explic. Missae T. 2. dis. 1. Also Renaudot.
They have however been refuted by Assemani, Maratori and Zaccaria.]
[Footnote 5: The _Pater noster_ is still said in secret, except after
the canon of the Mass, because at that part of the Liturgy only the
faithful were present. See Moroni's learned work entitled, Dizionario
di erudizione ecclesiastica.]
[Footnote 6: See Schelstratius, de Disciplina Arcani, or Trevern's
answer to Faber's Difficulties of Romanism: also Bingham lib. X, c. 5.
Times are now so much altered that it is difficult to conceive how the
Reserve in communicating Religious knowledge recommended in one of
the Tracts for the Times could be practicable, even if it were judged
expedient.]
[Footnote 7: It was first published by B. Card. Tommasi from a very
ancient manuscript in the queen of Sweden's library. Cave, Mabillon,
Muratori, 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.
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