This work was originally published in four large volumes, of which the first contained the history to the year 590 the second, to the Concordat of Worms; the third, to the death of Pope Boniface VIII and the fourth, to the eve of the Reformation. The present is the sixth edition of the first portion, and the fourth edition of the second.

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