[Footnote 10: It was confined to the successors of
Charlemagne, and to them only on Christmas-day. On all other
festivals these Imperial deacons were content to serve the
pope, as he said mass, with the book and the corporale. Yet
the abbe de Sade generously thinks that the merits of
Charles IV. might have entitled him, though not on the
proper day, (A.D. 1368, November 1,) to the whole privilege.
He seems to affix a just value on the privilege and the man,
(Vie de Petrarque, tom. iii. p. 735.)]