Now that the Franks did so too, whom we have shewn to be descended from the Chauci or Chaiici, that single Passage of the Poet Lucan is sufficient to confirm.

  Et vos Crinigeros bellis arcere Chaycos
  Opposui, petitis Roman, &c.

Which being so, we may easily comprehend the Reason why Strangers, who were ill affected towards our Nation, contumeliously called our Kings, who wore so great a Head of Hair, Reges setatos, bristled Kings; and not only so, but (tho’ Bristles and long Hair be common to Lyons, Horses and Swine, all which are therefore called Setosi, or Setigeri) they stretched the Contumely so far, as to say, they had Hogs Bristles.  From whence arose that filthy Fiction and foul Name, [Greek:  trichorachaton] of which Georgius Cedrenus writes thus in his History, [Greek:  “Helegonto de hoi ek tou genous hekenou katagomenoi kristatoi ho hermeneuetai trichorachai heichon gar kata tes racheos auton trichas ekphuomenas hos choiroi”] that is, “They who were of the Kingly Race were called Cristati, which may be interpreted Bristleback’d; because they had all along their Back bones, Bristles growing out like Swine”—­, Which Passage of Cedrenus, I believe, is corrupted, and instead of the Word [Greek:  kristatoi], ought to be [Greek:  setatoi], or perhaps both.  For as some Persons called them pleasantly Christati by Reason of their large erected Bunch of Hair upon the Tops of their Helmets; so their Ill-Willers called them upbraidingly Setati, or Setigeri.  If Cedrenus had not been so very plain in this Passage, and the Appellation of Cristati be to be retained, I shou’d rather have thought they might have been called [Greek:  trichocharaktoi], as being remarkable for their large Heads of Hair.

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CHAP.  X.

    The Form and Constitution of the Francogallican
    Government.

These Things being thus briefly premised, we think it proper now to set forth in what Manner the Kingdom of Francogallia was constituted.  And we have already made it plain, that the People reserv’d to themselves all the Power not only of Creating, but also of Abdicating their Kings.  Which Form of Government ’tis manifest our Ancestors had; before they were brought under by the Romans, “So that the People (as Caesar tells us) had no less authority and Power over their Kings, than the Kings had over the People.  Populus non minus in Regem, quam rex in populum imperii ac Potestatis retinet.”  Altho’ ’tis probable the Franks did not derive this Constitution of their Commonwealth from the Gauls; but from their Countrymen, the Germans; of whom Tacitus, lib. de mor. Germ. says,—­“Regibus non