[Footnote 67: The Benedictines (Vit. Greg. l. i. p. 205 - 208)
labor to reduce the monasteries of Gregory within the rule of
their own order; but, as the question is confessed to be
doubtful, it is clear that these powerful monks are in the wrong.
See Butler's Lives of the Saints, vol. iii. p. 145; a work of
merit: the sense and learning belong to the author - his
prejudices are those of his profession.]