[Footnote 56: Not absolutely for the first time. On a less
conspicuous theatre it had been used, in the vith and viith
centuries, by the provincial bishops of Britain and Spain.
The royal unction of Constantinople was borrowed from the
Latins in the last age of the empire. Constantine Manasses
mentions that of Charlemagne as a foreign, Jewish,
incomprehensible ceremony. See Selden's Titles of Honor, in
his Works, vol. iii. part i. p. 234-249.]