Even the donative of Constantine to the Roman bishop Silvester was declared to be a pitiable fiction.

Which to effect I presently will goe Proclaime a Donative in Galbaes name.

Latterly, indeed, he yielded to the suggestions of Genuino and d'Arpaya, that these things should be preserved for the good of the state, and for the purpose of presenting them as a donative to Philip IV.