Footnotes
[1]
See the prologue to the Salic Law. Mr. Leibnitz says, in his
treatise of the origin of the Franks, that this law was made before the
reign of Clovis: but it could not be before the Franks had quitted
Germany, for at that time they did not understand the Latin tongue.
[2]
See Gregory of Tours.
[3]
See the prologue to the "Law of the Bavarians," and that to the
Salic Law.
[5]
Lex Angliorum Werinorum, hoc est Thuringorum.
[6]
They did not know how to write.
[7]
They were made by Euric, and amended by Leovigildus. See
Isidorus's chronicle. Chaindasuinthus and Recessuinthus reformed them.
Egigas ordered the code now extant to be made, and commissioned bishops
for that purpose; nevertheless the laws of Chaindasuinthus and
Recessuinthus were preserved, as appears by the sixth council of Toledo.
[8]
See the prologue to the "Law of the Bavarians."
[9]
We find only a few in Childebert's decree.
[10]
See the prologue to the "Code of the Burgundians,' and the code
itself, especially tit. 12, section 5, and tit. 38. See also Gregory of
Tours, ii. 33, and the "Code of the Visigoths."
[11]
See lower down, chapter 3.
[12]
See cap. ii, sections 8 and 9, and cap. iv, sections 2 and 7.
