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Birth-Day of S. Gregory.
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ftob ^ but;on yl&inge gius^ and without delay hine ^bytbe> fitoblice took him off. Moreover, ^ptep ]>2ey papam ^e en- after the Death of this Pope, bunge ]rpa micel ' cyxlm the Deftrudlion was fo great ^epeap^ ]>xy polcep ]>at among the People, that e- Sehpaep jtobon apert:e- very where throughout the hur s^onb ]>a buph bu- City the Houfesftood defo- ton bujigenbum. ]>a ne late, and without Inhabi- imht fpa ]>eah jeo Roma- tants. Neverthelefs it was na buph buton Papam ^^^^ ^^ that the Rowan City punian :• Kc ealJe ;^ pole Should be without a Bilhop. pone eabijan Gpe^opium But all the People unani- ro ]>xpe ' g'ej^mo'Se an- moufly chofe the Holy Gre- mobhce ^eceap. ])eah ]>e ^^rji; to that Honour, altho' he mib eallum >^ ma^jnum he with all his Power oppo- P^^Sepi^enbe f^pe > ripe- fed it. Then Gregory fent Sopiup ]>a pen^ a:nne pi- an Epiftle to 3iauriciHs the rrolt:o]>amnapepea:au- Emperor, to whofe Child piciumpepsphip^pisbepa. he had flood Godfather, ' cpealm. C H. - 5e>me}>e. C H. Sea : Buc that the Beads beina fuffocaced in the Salt Water, were z^^ dead upon the Shore. He adds, that hence there immediately arofc a Plague, which coming in the midllof the Eleventh Month, firfl of all (according to what we read in the Prophet £^e;^/e/, c.ix. v. d» Begin at my Sanctuary. J fmoce Pelctgiiis the Bi (hop, and irnmediarely deprived him of Life, (^regor. Juron, lib, cf . hijhriar, ^ CTQib eallum msegnuni : A Saxon Phrafe flill in ufe vUl us ', as, mit) all l)is main ; rattl) xig)t ^nu maiiu • The Word p^6epa, Mr. Somner in his GIolTary explains by Fa^ tmus, that is, an Uncle by the Father's fide, a Father's Brother: Bu? It is probable, that the Saxons had befides that, another Meaning of ^he Woi'd : For ic does not appear from Hiftofy^ that there was any D 2 fuch