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igS Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. against. He usually harmonised the diffoicnces by a few short notes shewing that the difference arose either because one canon was later than, and therefore repealed, the other, or that it was in force in a different locality, or that it was made by a higher authority, or that one was of general, the others being of local application. But Gratian did not write glosses either on his own text or on the authorities he quoted. His pupil Paucopalea may have done so, but glosses were not allowed to be of authority in the schools. A printed copy of Gratian's Decretiim, printed " within a few years' range of 1414," i.e., 28 years before the first known printed work appeared at Mainz (which was printed in 1442 from the stolen Laurentian type) is indeed a find. It is to be hoped we may have fuller information about it. Miss Lega-Weekes considers that both my translation of the passage from Pope Vigilius and also my reference (3 Dist. i., c. 24) need correction. May I briefly reply ? Minitne. Gratian's work consisted of three parts — the first, De ministeriis ; the second, Quaestiones ; the third, De Con- secratione. The third part is again divided into four Distinctiones. The passage from Vigilius will be found in the first Distinction of the third part with a c. 24 prefixed. Possibly Miss Lega-Weekes may not be aware that a continuous numbering of the passages cited first appears in Le Conte's edition of the Decntum, published at Paris in 1556. It would not therefore be found in the prehistoric copy which she has unearthed. Since 1556 it has been followed in all editions. The reference III. Dist. i., c. 24, is therefore quite correct. It will be found on p. 1,135 of the authorised edition published by Richter in 1836, which also contains the notes of the 35 Correctores Romani appointed by Pius V. (1566-1572) to revise the corrupt text, who completed their work in 1582. The heading in Richter's edition is " Vigilius Papa ad Eleutherium Epist. i., c. 4," upon which the Cor- rectores remark in note 117: "Tribuitur Juliano in ed. Par. et Lugdd. Julio in rell. et Iv. Pan. Est in epistola Vigilii ad Profuturum script., A.D. 538." The usual meaning of Sanctuarium is a holy place or a place devoted to holy purposes. The part of a church where the altar stands is therefore called Sanctuarium. So is the glebe-land given for the support of a church and its