Footnotes
[99]
In the civil wars which broke out at the time of Charles Martel,
the lands belonging to the church of Rheims were given away to laymen;
"the clergy were left to shift as well as they could," says the "Life of
Remigius Surius," tome i, p. 279.
[100]
"Law of the Lombards," book iii, tit. 3, sections 1 and 2.
[101]
It is that on which I have descanted in the 4th chapter of this
book, and which is to be found in Baluzius's edition of the
"Capitularies," tome i, art. 11, p. 9.
[102]
The "Capitulary of Charlemagne" in the year 800, Baluzius's
edition, p. 336, explains extremely well what is meant by that sort of
tithe from which the church is exempted by Clotharius; it was the tithe
of the swine which were put into the king's forests to fatten; and
Charlemagne enjoins his judges to pay it, as well as other people, in
order to set an example: it is plain that this was a right of seigniory
or economy.
[103]
Canone 5, ex tomo 1, conciliorum antiquorum Galli opera Jacobi
Sirmundi.
[104]
Art. 6, Baluzius's edition, p. 332. It was given in the year
800.
[105]
Held under Charlemagne, in the year 794.
[106]
Baluzius's edition, p. 267, art. 23.
[[107]]
See among the rest the "Capitulary of Louis the Debonnaire" in
the year 829, Baluzius's edition, p. 663; against those who, to avoid
paying tithes neglected to cultivate the lands, &c., art. 5.
[107]
Among others, that of Lotharius, book iii, tit. 3, cap. vi.
[108]
In the year 829, art. 7, in Baluzius, tome i, p. 663.
[109]
In the "Law of the Lombards," book iii, tit. 3, section 8.
[110]
It is a kind of codicil produced by Eginhard, and different
from the will itself, which we find in Goldastus and Baluzius.
