[Footnote 6: See Ducange, Gloss. mediae et infimae
Latinitat. tom. vi. p. 364, 365, Staffa. This homage was
paid by kings to archbishops, and by vassals to their lords,
(Schmidt, tom. iii. p. 262;) and it was the nicest policy of
Rome to confound the marks of filial and of feudal
subjection]