rus_ says thus,--"_Charles_ the Great was call'd
_King_ of the _Franks_; which is as much as to say, _King_ of _Germany_
and _France_." Now 'tis demonstrable, that at that time all _Gallia
Transalpina_, and all _Germany_ from the _Pyrenaeen_ Mountains, as far as
_Hungary_, was called _Francia_: This last was called _Eastern France_,
the former _Western France_; and in this all true Historians agree.

_Eguinarthus_, in his Life of _Charlemain_, says,--"The Banks of the
River _Sala_, which divides the _Taringi_ from the _Sorabi_, were
afterwards inhabited by those called the _Eastern Franks_." _Otto
Frising._ _Chron._ 5. _cap._ 4. speaking of King _Dagaber_'s Reign, "The
Bounds of the _Franks_ Dominions reach'd now (says he) from _Spain_, as
far as _Hungary_, being two most noble Dukedoms, _Aquitania_ and
_Bavaria_";--but much more at large, _lib._ 6. _cap._ 17. And after him
_Godfrey_ of _Viterbo_, in his _Chronic. part. 17. sub Anno_ 881,
"_Arnulphus_ (says he) ruled all _Eastern Francia_, which is now called
the _Teutonick_ Kingdom, or _Germany_; that is to say, _Bavaria, Suabia,
Saxonia, Turingia, Frisia_ and _Lotharingia_; but _Odo_ was king of
_Western France_." Again, _sub Anno_ 913. "It is apparent by the
Authority of many Writers, that the Kingdom of _Germany_, which the
Emperor _Frederick_ at present holds, is part of the Kingdom of the
_Franks_; for there (on both sides of the _Rhine_) the first _Franks_
were seated; which as far as to the Limits of _Bavaria_, is now called
_Eastern France_: But _Western France_ is that Kingdom which lies on
both Sides the Rivers _Seine_ and _Loire_"--And again he says, "In the
time of _Charles_ the Great, King of the _Franks_, all _Gallia_, that is,
_Celtica, Belgica_, and _Lugdunensis_ and all _Germany_ which reaches
from the _Rhine_ as far as _Dalmatia_, made but one Kingdom;
which was called _Francia_"--Almost all which Quotations have been taken
out of _Otto_, as I said before. 'Tis to be noted, that _Rhegino_ writes
thus, in _Chron. anni_ 577.--"After the Death of King _Pipin_, _Lewis_
his Son (who had been present at his Father's Decease and celebrated his
Funerals) kept his Residence at _Francfort_, the principal Seat of the
_Eastern Kingdom_." _Luitprandus Ticinensis says_, _lib. 1. cap._ 6.--"It
was order'd that _Wido_ shou'd have for his Share, that which Men call
the _Roman France_, and _Berengarius_ shou'd have Italy." And a little
after,--"When he had march'd thro'