took the same Pains in building up this litigious Trade, that the Egyptian Monarchs are said to have done in employing their Subjects to build the Pyramids; among whom Chemnis is recorded to have gathered together 360000 Men to raise one Pyramid. Gaguinus, in his History of King Hutin’s Life, has this Passage,—­“This Lewis ordained, That the Court of Parliament should remain fixed and immoveable in the City of Paris, that Suitors and Clients might not be put to the Trouble of frequent Removals.”  Now what some affirm, that Pipin or Charlemagn were the Authors of this Institution, is very absurd, as we shall plainly make appear.  For most of the Laws and Constitutions of Charlemagn are extant; in all which there is not the least Mention made of the Word Parliament, nor of that great fixed Senate; he only ordains, That in certain known Places his Judges should keep a Court, and assemble the People; which according to his usual Custom he calls a Placitum, or a Mallum, as [lib. 4. cap. 35. Legis Franciae] ’tis written, “He shall cause no more than three general Placita to be kept in one Year, unless by chance some Person is either accused, or seizes another Man’s Property, or is summoned to be a Witness—.” There are many other Laws extant of that King’s of the like Nature, by which we may observe the Paucity of Law-suits in his Days:  And I am clearly of Opinion, that what I find several of our modern Authors have affirm’d is most true, viz. that the first Rise and Seeds of so many Law-suits, Calumnies and Contentions in this Kingdom, proceeded from Pope Clement the Fifth, who during the Reign of Philip the Fair, transferred the Seat of his Papacy to Avignon, at which Time his Courtiers and Petty-Foggers, engaging into Acquaintance with our Countrymen, Introduced the Roman Arts of Wrangling into our Manners and Practice.  But not to speak of such remote Times.  About the Year of our Lord 1230. reigned St. Lewis, as he is plainly called, whose Life Johannes Joinvillaeus (whom we have often mentioned) has written at large.  Out of his Commentary we may easily learn, how few Contentions and Law-Suits were in those Days, since King Lewis either determined the Controversies himself in Person, or referred them to be determined by some of his Followers and Companions:  And therefore [cap. 94.] he thus writes,—­“He was wont (says he) to command Lord Nellius, Lord Soissons, or my self, to inspect and manage the Appeals which were made to him.  Afterwards he sent for us, and enquired into the State of the Case; and whether it were of such a Nature as could not be ended without his own Intervention.  Oftentimes it hapned, that after we had made our Report, he sent for the contending Parties, and heard the Cause impartially argued over again.  Sometimes for his Diversion