CHAP.  VIII.

Of the Salick Law, and what Right Women had in the Kings, their
  Father’s Inheritance.

CHAP.  IX.

Of the Right of Wearing a large Head of Hair peculiar to the Royal
  Family.

CHAP.  X.

The Form and Constitution of the Francogallican Government.

CHAP.  XI.

Of the Sacred Authority of the Publick Council.

CHAP.  XII.

Of the Kingly Officers, commonly called Mayors of the Palace.

CHAP.  XIII.

Whether Pipin was created King by the Pope, or by the Authority of
  the Francogallican Council.

CHAP.  XIV.

Of the Constable and Peers of France.

CHAP.  XV.

Of the continued Authority and Power of the Sacred Council, during
  the Reign of the Carlovingian Family.

CHAP.  XVI.

Of the Capevingian Race, and the Manner of its obtaining the Kingdom
  of Francogallia.

CHAP.  XVII.

Of the uninterrupted Authority of the Publick Council, during the
  Capevingian Line.

CHAP.  XVIII.

Of the Remarkable Authority of the Council against Lewis the
  Eleventh.

CHAP.  XIX.

Of the Authority of the Assembly of the States, concerning the most
  important Affairs of Religion.

CHAP.  XX.

Whether Women are not as much debarr’d by the Francogallican
  Law from the Administration, as from the Inheritance of the
  Kingdom.

CHAP.  XXI.

Of the Juridical Parliaments in France.

* * * * *

A
Short EXTRACT
OF THE
LIFE
OF
Francis Hotoman,

    Taken out of Monsieur Bayle’s Hist.  Dict. and other
    Authors.

Francis Hotoman (one of the most learned Lawyers of that Age) was Born at Paris the 23d of August, 1524.  His Family was an Ancient and Noble one, originally of Breslaw, the Capital of Silesia. Lambert Hotoman, his Grandfather, bore Arms in the Service of Lewis the 11th of France, and married a rich Heiress at Paris, by whom he had 18 Children; the Eldest of which (John Hotoman) had so plentiful an Estate, that he laid down the Ransom-Money for King Francis the First, taken at the Battel of Pavia:  Summo galliae bono, summa cum sua laude, says Neveletus, Peter Hotoman his 18th Child, and [Footnote:  Maistre des Eaux & Forrests.] Master of the Waters and Forests of France (afterwards a Counsellor in the Parliament of Paris) was