A third Instance we have Anno 1375, when the last Will and Testament of Charles the Fifth, Surnamed the Wise, was produced:  By which Will he had appointed his Wife’s Brother, Philip Duke of Bourbon, to be Guardian to his Sons, and Lewis Duke of Anjou his own Brother, to be Administrator of the Kingdom till such Time as his Son Charles shou’d come of Age.  But notwithstanding this, a Great Council was held at Paris, wherein (after declaring the Testament to be void and null) it was decreed, that the Administration of the Kingdom shou’d be committed to Lewis, the Boy’s Uncle:  “But upon this Condition, that he should be ruled and governed in that Administration, by the Advice of certain Persons named and approv’d by the Council.”  The Education and Tutelage of the Child was left to Bourbon; and at the same Time a Law was made, that the Heir of the Kingdom shou’d be crown’d as soon as he shou’d be full 14 Years old, and receive the Homage and Oath of Fidelity from his Subjects.—­Froissard, Vol. 2. cap. 60. Buchett, lib. 4. fol. 124.  Chro.  Brit.  Cap.

A 4th Example we have in the Year 1392; at which Time the same Charles the Sixth was taken with a sudden Distraction or Madness, and was convey’d first to Mans, and afterwards to Paris; and there a General Council was held, wherein it was decreed by the Authority of the States, that the Administration of the Kingdom shou’d be committed to the Dukes of Aquitain and Burgundy.—­Froissard, Vol. 4. cap. 44. is our Author.

5.  Neither must we omit what Paponius (Arrest. lib. 5. tit. 10.  Art. 4.) testifies to have been declared by the Parliament at Paris, within the Compass of almost our own Memories, when Francis the First had a Mind to alienate Part of his Dominions; viz. “That all Alienations of that Kind made by any of his Predecessors, were void and null in themselves; upon this very Account, that they were done without the Authority of the Great Council, and of the Three Estates,” as he calls them.

A 6th Example we have in the Year 1426, when Philip Duke of Burgundy, and Hanfred [Dux Glocestriae] were at mortal Enmity with each other, to the great Detriment of the Commonwealth and it was at last agreed between them to determine their Quarrel by single Combat:  For in that Contention the Great Council interposed its Authority, and decreed that both shou’d lay down their Arms, and submit to have their Controversies judicially tryed before the Council, rather than disputed with the Sword.  Which History is related at large by Paradinus, in Chron.  Burgund. lib. 3. Anno 1426.