Footnotes
[19]
They were orders which the king sent to the judges to do or to
tolerate things contrary to law.
[20]
See Gregory of Tours, book iv, p. 227. Both our history and the
charters are full of this; and the extent of these abuses appears
especially in Clotharius' constitution, inserted in the edition of the
"Capitularies" made to reform them. Baluzius's edition, p. 7.
[24]
In Baluzius's edition of the "Capitularies," tome i., p. 7.
[25]
In the preceding book I have made mention of these immunities,
which were grants of judicial rights, and contained prohibitions to the
regal judges to perform any function in the territory, and were
equivalent to the erection or grant of a fief.
[26]
He began to reign towards the year 670.
[27]
See the "Life of St. Leger."
