This was Charles the 7th’s Order:  But in Charles the Great’s Reign, who ruled a Kingdom three Times as big, we find a very different Manner of rendring Justice; as we may easily understand by that Law of his, mention’d lib. 4. cap. 74. Legis Franciae; “Let a Comes, a Judge (says he) not hold a Placitum, (that is, not pass a Decree) but before Dinner, or Fasting.”

Concerning the Word Parliament, and the Authority of that Name, we have this Argument; That when of old a Senate was instituted in Dauphine with supreme Authority, which was commonly called the Council of Dauphine; Lewis the 11th endeavouring to oblige the Dauphinois, who had well deserved from him, changed the Name of this Council into that of a Parliament, without adding any Thing to the Privileges or Authority of it.  Of which Guidopappius is our Witness. [Quest. 43. and again quest. 554.]

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