¹ Aeconomi (stewards) revere officers appointed to manage the revenues of each diocese under the bishops' direction, when the bishops and their archdeacons had enough to do otherwise:cf. Bingham, Antiq., Bk. III. chap. xii.

¹ Quod proedicat, some mss. quid proedicat (what to preach): some also add quoniam qui ignorat, ignorabitur (from 1 Cor. xiv. 38).

² S. Luke xxiv. 38, 39.

³ Salutifer Davidicoe Virginis partus illuxit.

⁴ Acts i. 2.

⁵ S. Matt. i. 1.

⁶ Rom. ix. 5.

⁷ 2 Tim. ii. 8.

¹ Marcian died in 457, and was succeeded by Leo of Thrace.

² On Marcian's death there had been a rising, in which Proterius had been brutally murdered, and a monk named Timothy Aelurus set up in his stead.