Footnotes
[33]
The Franks, the Visigoths, and Burgundians.
[34]
It was finished in 438.
[35]
The 20th year of the reign of this prince, and published two
years after by Anian, as appears from the preface to that code.
[36]
The year 504 of the Spanish era, the "Chronicle of Isidorus."
[37]
Francum, aut Barbarum, aut hominem qui Salica lege vivit. --
Salic Law, tit. 44, section 1.
[38]
"According to the Roman law under which the church lives," as is
said in the "Law of the Ripuarians," tit. 58, section 1. See also the
numberless authorities on this head pronounced by Du Cange, under the
words "Lex Romana."
[39]
See the Capitularies added to the Salic law in Lindembrock, at
the end of that law, and the different codes of the laws of the
Barbarians concerning the privileges of ecclesiastics in this respect.
See also the letter of Charlemagne to his son Pepin, King of Italy, in
the year 807, in the edition of Baluzius, tome i, 462, where it is said, that
an ecclesiastic should receive a triple compensation; and the "Collection
of the Capitularies," lib. v, art. 302, tome i. Edition of Baluzius.
[41]
Of this I shall speak in another place, Book xxx, chaps. 5, 6, and 7.
[43]
See Gervais of Tilbury, in Duchesne's "Collection," tome iii, p. 366.
And a chronicle of the year 759, produced by Catel, "Hist. of Languedoc."
And the uncertain author of the "Life of Louis the Debonnaire," upon the
demand made by the people of Septimania, at the assembly in Carisiaco,
in Duchesne's "Collection," tome ii, p. 316.
[44]
Art. 16. See also art. 20.
[45]
See arts. 12 and 16 of the edict of Pistes in Cavilono, in
Narbona, &c.
