106. See Baronius (Annal. Eccles. A.D. 324, No. 58, 65, 70,
71) . Every record which comes from the Vatican is justly
suspected; yet these rent-rolls have an ancient and
authentic colour- and it is at least evident that, if
forged, they were forged in a period when farms, not
kingdoms, were the objects of papal avarice.